Pupil surpasses master

Motif

Pupil surpasses master.

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

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Scholars’ trail — 4references

The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our shelf are live links; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.

JewishNeuman
IndiaThompson-Balys.
general *Fb "mester" II 584a
general Alphabet No. 38

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Filed under The unpromising surpasses the promising.

3 finer motifs beneath it

Pupil surpasses thieves in stealing Pupil surpasses magician Son surpasses father in skill

Filed beside it

Stupid person surpasses clever Poor man surpasses rich Ignorant surpasses learned man Ugly preferred to pretty sister Neglected surpasses favorite child Tardy surpasses punctual Slowness surpasses haste Peasant girl outwits prince Daughter succeeds on quest where son fails Scorning stops when it turns out that the scorned has saved the king by fighting alone against four Disagreeable and disliked child surpasses the likeable one Unpromising hero kills those who scorn him

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