The constellation
A775 Origin of Hyades
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 particular stars · A770 entry
keeps company
- City founded on spot where cow lies down · B155.2 entry
- Transformation: man to kid · D134.3 entry
- Power of prophecy a gift · D1812.1 entry
- Power of prophecy lost by spitting. When possessor of power on request spits into mouth of man who has taught him, he loses the power · D1812.6.1 entry
- Transformation to seduce · D658 entry
- Magic plant · D965 entry
- Resuscitation by herbs (leaves) · E105 entry
- Missile thrown among enemies causes them to fight one another · K1082.1 entry
- Punishment: transformation to deer which is devoured by dogs · Q415.1.1 entry
- Boiling to death. Often in pitch or oil · S112.1 entry
Thompson cites
- The Library (Bibliotheca) · BOOK III, ch. IV