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F610. Remarkably strong man. (Strong John). (Cf. X940, X959.1.) *Panzer Beowulf; *Types 301, 650*, 650**, 650, 1003 – 1013; *BP II 285ff., 300ff.; *Fb ”styrke“, ”stærk“, ”Svend Felding“. – Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: MacCulloch Eddic 86, 153 (Heimdall), *Boberg; French: Cosquin Lorraine Nos. 14, 46, 52, 69 and notes; Italian: Basile Pentamerone III No. 8; Greek: Fox 75 (Herakles), Frazer Apollodorus I 259 n. 3; Jewish: Frazer Old Testament II 480ff. (Samson), *Neuman; Armenian: Ananikian 86; Hindu: Keith 172; India: Thompson-Balys; Indonesian: *De Vries Nederlandsch Tijdschrift v. Volkskunde XXX 97ff.; Chinese: Graham; Buriat: Holmberg Siberian 428; N. A. Indian: *Thompson CColl II 334ff. incident A 2; West Indies: Flowers 435.
F610.4. Man with strength of many men. Jewish: Neuman.
F610.4.3. Man with seventy men’s strength. Jewish: Neuman.
F610.5.1. Man with strength of lion. Jewish: Neuman.
F610.9. Strong man accomplishes superhuman tasks when God‘s spirit is over him. Jewish: Neuman.
F621. Strong man: tree-puller. Can uproot and carry off trees. (Cf. F611.3.1, F614.2.) *Type 513; BP II 79ff.; *Fb ”træ“ III 867b. – Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: Boberg; Breton: Sébillot Incidents s.v. ”arbres“; French Canadian: Barbeau JAFL XXIX 21; Swiss: Jegerlehner Oberwallis 295 No. 13; Jewish: *Neuman; India: Thompson-Balys; Hawaii: Dixon 90, Beckwith Myth 421; Samoa: Ibid. 254; Tonga: Gifford 127; Tuamotu: Stimson MS (z-G 3/1323).
F623. Strong man holds up mountain. Breton: Sébillot Incidents s.v. ”montagne“, ”appuiemontagne“; Jewish: Neuman.
F624.1. Strong man lifts horse (ox, ass). Fb ”stærk“; Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 250; Gaster Exempla 203 No. 92; Greek: Fox 100 (Theseus); Jewish: Neuman.
F624.1.3. Strong man throws leopard. Jewish: *Neuman.
F624.2. Strong man lifts large stone. Irish myth: Cross (F624.7); Icelandic: Boberg; Jewish: Neuman.
F624.2.0.1.1. Strong man throws mountain. (Cf. F623, F626.) Jewish: *Neuman.
F627. Strong man pulls down building. Irish myth: Cross; Jewish: Judges 16: 30 (Samson), *Neuman.
F628.1. Strong man kills animals with own hands. Irish myth: *Cross; Jewish: *Neuman.
F628.1.1.4. Strong man kills bear. Jewish: Neuman.
F628.1.2.2. Man swings wild steer by horns round and round till it is stunned, casts it to ground. Jewish: Neuman.
F628.2.1. Strong man kills many men at once. *Boje 103; Irish myth: *Cross; Spanish Exempla: Keller; Jewish: Judges 14: 19 (Samson), *Neuman; Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 417, Rarotonga: ibid. 253; Africa (Upoto): Einstein 126.
F628.2.3. Strong man kills giant. Type 650* (Cf. F639.4.) Irish myth: *Cross; Jewish: *Neuman; Eskimo (Greenland): Holm 38; S. A. Indian (Cashinawa): Métraux BBAE CXLIII (3) 686.
F631.2. Strong man carries off city gates. Jewish: Judges 16: 3, *Neuman.
F632. Mighty eater. Eats whole ox at time, or the like. (Cf. X931.) *Cosquin Contes indiens 427ff.; Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 250. – Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: MacCulloch Eddic 88, 93, Boberg; Jewish: *Neuman; India: *Thompson-Balys; Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 419; Tonga: ibid. 271, Gifford 172f.; Marquesas: Handy 42; Tuamotu: Stimson MS (T-G. 3/620); S. A. Indian (Chiriguano): Métraux RMLP XXXIII 142; Africa (Fang): Tessman 117, (Wute): Sieber 117.
F634.1. Strong man bathing and diving in river catches thousands of fishes in his beard. (Cf. X1112.) Jewish: Neuman.
F636.4. Remarkable stone-thrower. Italian: Basile Pentamerone I No. 5; Jewish: *Neuman.
F636.4.2. Strong man catches stones hurled from catapults by enemy and throws them back upon the besiegers. Jewish: *Neuman.
F637. Strong man holds back ship. Alphabet No. 493. – Jewish: Neuman.
F639.1.2. Strong man’s finger digs into ground with such force that water gushes out. Jewish: Neuman.
F639.10. Strong man’s anger: bites brass rods in anger and spits them out as powder. Jewish: *Neuman.
F639.11. Strong man grinds huge rocks into powder. Jewish: Neuman.
F639.12. Nine hundred horses draw chariot in which strong man rides. Jewish: Neuman.
F645.2. Man knows exactly how many grains are in a measure. Jewish: Neuman.
F645.2. Man knows exactly how many grains are in a measure. Jewish: Neuman.
F647.1. Marvelous sensitiveness: meat (wine) tastes of corpse. Has been near grave. Italian novella: Rotunda (J1661.1.8.); India: *Thompson-Balys, Penzer VI 288; Jewish: Neuman; Korean: Zong in-Sob 102 No. 55.
F647.5. Marvelous sensitiveness: woman smells like a goat. She has been brought up on goat’s milk. Jewish: *Neuman; India: *Thompson-Balys, Penzer VI 219.
F652.2. Man smells pots boiling 400 miles off. Jewish: Neuman.
F675. Ingenious carpenter. Penzer III 282 – 4, 296 – 300; Irish myth: *Cross; Jewish: Neuman.
F681. Marvelous runner. Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: *Boberg; Italian: Basile Pentamerone III No. 8; Jewish: *Neuman; India: Thompson-Balys; Hawaii: *Beckwith Myth 151, 337f.; Tuamotu: Stimson MS (T-G. 3/928).
F681.6. Marvelous runner catches wild game on the run. Italian Novella: Rotunda; Jewish: *Neuman.
F681.6.1. Man can outstrip wild mare, hold her, and bridle her. Jewish: Neuman.
F681.12. Runner runs so swiftly that he does not snap the ears of wheat (bend grass). Latin: Virgil Aeneid VII 807 ff.; Jewish: Neuman.
F687. Remarkable fragrance (odor) of person. Jewish: Neuman.
F688. Man with marvelous voice. Jewish: *Neuman.
F688.3. Voice heard over whole land. Jewish: *Neuman.
F688.4. Walls fall because of great shout. Jewish: *Neuman.
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