μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 2references

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.

  • IndiaThompson-Balys.
  • general *Type 675
Within the index

Filed under Success of the unpromising hero (heroine).

1 finer motif beneath it
Lowly successful soldier invites general and humbles him
Filed beside it
Lowly hero marries princessLowly heroine marries prince (king)Lowly boy becomes king. (Most references to L161 apply here)Despised boy wins raceDespised boy wins gambling game[First Edition: L190. Unpromising hero (heroine) – miscellaneous.]
Carried in tale types

wander