The constellation
B253 Animals perform offices of church
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
- Religious animals · B250 entry
beneath it
- Snakes have mass · B253.1 entry
- Wolves have annual (church) feast · B253.2 entry
- Fox fasts as penance. (Cf. B251.4.) · B253.3 entry
- Spider performs penance · B253.4 entry
- The deer with a cross carried between their horns · B253.5 entry
- Deer with candles on the tops of their antlers · B253.6 entry
carried in tale type
- The Two Travelers · ATU 613