Scurfhead (märchen hero)
Qeros / Qerosi / Gël
Scurfhead märchen hero — golden apple, youngest brother, kulshedra rescue.
Description
Artful scurfy märchen hero — a tale figure, not a creature. Elsie s.v. Scurfhead: Alb. qeros/qerosi from qerë ‘ringworm’; also gël/gelan; intelligent/artful, often deceptive; fate marked by scurfy look or animal-hide disguise; same tale-functions as Barefaced Man; sometimes youngest of three brothers who triumphs; golden-apple contest ending; dragon-cave maiden rescue with kulshedra.
Features
- märchen triumph functions (Elsie)
- kulshedra-slayer in tale extract (Elsie)
Lead story
Youngest brother, scurfy or hide-clad, wins the golden apple and the dragon’s cave. Elsie prints the tale functions beside the Barefaced Man — heroes of story, not bestiary creatures.
Aliases
Qeros · Qerosi · Gël · Gelan · Scurfhead
Region
Albanian märchen corpus (Elsie Scurfhead)
Relations
- Kulshedratale encounter
- Barefaced Man (märchen trickster)märchen pair
Linked stories
- Qeros — ScurfheadRecorded
Scurfy artful hero; golden apple; tale-functions with Barefaced Man; kulshedra rescue.
- Qose — Barefaced ManRecorded
Beardless trickster and omen; proverb-warned; tale-functions with Scurfhead.