The constellation
A1593 Why men no longer know time of death. Custom changed when men began to repair fences with stalks when they knew they were to die the next day
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
- Origin of other customs · A1590 entry
carried in tale type
- The Origin of Death · ATU 934H
filed beside
- Origin of burial · A1591 entry
- Origin of cremation · A1592 entry
- Origin of physicians · A1594 entry
- Origin of tattooing · A1595 entry
- Origin of army · A1596 entry
- Origin of custom of wearing a beard · A1597 entry
- Origin of customs of hospitality · A1598 entry
- Origin of additional customs · A1599 entry