The constellation
A226 Sun father-in-law
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
keeps company
- Animal bribed with food. (Sop to Cerberus.) · B325.1 entry
- Animal as guard of person or house · B576.1 entry
- Guardian animals evaded · B576.1.1 entry
- Burning magically evaded. (Cf. D1656.) · D1841.3 entry
- Transformation: man to feather · D275 entry
- Protean beggar: Person assumes successive forms in order to beg · D611 entry
- Transformation combat. Fight between contestants who strive to outdo each other in successive transformations · D615 entry
- Transformation to reach difficult place · D641 entry
- Transformation to escape difficult situation · D642 entry
- Transformation to receive food · D655 entry
attested in
- Tales of the North American Indians · Tale 39