The constellation
A2479 Other habitual bodily movements of animals
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
beneath it
- Why wagtail moves tail up and down · A2479.1 entry
- Why hare skips about like a leaf · A2479.2 entry
- Why jackals make noise at night when seeking food · A2479.3 entry
- Why the hedgehog draws himself up: shame at sight of a good man · A2479.4 entry
- Why caterpillars climb trees · A2479.6 entry
- Why ants fall upon every man · A2479.7 entry
- Why dog snaps every fly. Fly laughed at dog's (feigned) death · A2479.8 entry
- Why flies fly around ox's eyes · A2479.9 entry