Dreadnaughts. Brothers deliberately seek dangers they have been warned against. Triumph — Mythoi

Motif

Dreadnaughts. Brothers deliberately seek dangers they have been warned against. Triumph.

Miscellaneous groups of motifs. · Heroes. · Brothers as heroes. · view the constellation · filed as Z211

Filed across the traditions

Greek Fox 98
India *Thompson-Balys
Oceanic Dixon 131, 132 n. 2, 133
Tuamotu Stimson MS (z-G. 3/1332
Marquesas Handy 105
N. Am. Indian *Thompson Tales 320 n. 156, (California): Gayton and Newman 69.
general T-G. 3/818
general z-G. 3/1122
general z-G. 13/221)

Within the index

Filed under Brothers as heroes.

Filed beside it

Warriors identically equipped (brothers) Lodge-Boy and Thrown-Away as joint adventurers. Of brothers (sometimes twins taken from body of slain mother) one is abandoned and becomes wild. Later he joins his brother Hero "son of seven mothers". Seven mothers each with a child imprisoned. Six eat their children to keep from starving. Seventh does not. He rescues all the mothers and becomes hero Supernatural origin of hero: magic conception. (Cf. T510.) Eldest brother as hero

Carried in tale types

The Stolen Clothing (previously Marriage by Stealing Clothing) · ATU 413 1 recorded variant

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