Pupil surpasses magician — Mythoi

Motif

Pupil surpasses magician.

Reversal of fortune. · Unpromising hero (heroine). · The unpromising surpasses the promising. · view the constellation · filed as L142.2

Filed across the traditions

Missouri French Carrière
India *Thompson-Balys.
general *Type 325

Within the index

Filed under Pupil surpasses master.

Filed beside it

Pupil surpasses thieves in stealing Son surpasses father in skill

Carried in tale types

The Magician and his Pupil · ATU 325 8 recorded variants

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