Pig-sty abode for unpromising hero (heroine) — Mythoi

Motif

Pig-sty abode for unpromising hero (heroine).

Reversal of fortune. · Unpromising hero (heroine). · Abode of unpromising hero (heroine). · view the constellation · filed as L132

Filed across the traditions

Chinese Graham
N. Am. Indian Thompson CColl II 351.
general *Type 314
general Cox Nos. 1, 33, 77, 79, and passim

Within the index

Filed under Abode of unpromising hero (heroine).

Filed beside it

Hearth abode of unpromising hero (heroine) Unpromising son leaves his home and goes into the world Unpromising hero must live in hut

Carried in tale types

Goldener (previously The Youth Transformed to a Horse) · ATU 314 2 recorded variants

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