The constellation
A2824 Origin of drum
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 near
- Origin of churning stick · A2823 entry
- Will-o'-the-wisp is girl cursed by her mother for gathering plants for dyestuffs on Sunday. Will-o'-the-wisp is seen where girl disappeared · A2817.2 entry
- Smith outwits devil, is admitted to neither heaven nor hell. The devil gives him a light to find his way back in the dark; he is known as the will-o'-the-wisp or jack-o'-lantern · A2817.1 entry
- Origin of the will-o'-the-wisp (jack-o'-lantern) · A2817 entry
- Origin of canes: from whip thrust into ground · A2825 entry
- Origin of shells · A2826 entry
- Origin of pearls · A2827 entry
- Origin of particular kinds of basket · A2828 entry