The constellation
A1111 Impounded water. Water is kept by monster so that mankind cannot use it. A hero defeats the monster and releases the water. (The monster is sometimes a giant frog.)
A constellation is one motif’s neighborhood in the record — the story-shapes filed around it, the tale types that carry it, and the texts where it is witnessed, every line a receipted link. Click a motif to travel. Click a text to read it. The entry · wander
● motif
● tale type
● on the shelf
● attested
The same sky, in words
filed under
keeps company
- Origin of tides · A913 entry
cross-ref
carried in tale type
- Three Hairs from the Devil's Beard · ATU 461
attested in
- Tales of the North American Indians · Tale 22