The constellation
B350 Grateful 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
keeps company
- Helpful wild beasts – felidae · B431 entry
- Helpful serpent · B491.1 entry
- Animal nurse. Animal nourishes abandoned child · B535 entry
- Bat rescues man from height. Bat lets him down in a spider-web basket · B542.1.2 entry
- Tabu: falsely claiming the powers of a god · C51.6 entry
- Magic footwear · D1065 entry
- Magic arrow · D1092 entry
- Magic ship. (Cf. D1121.) · D1123 entry
- Magic ball · D1256 entry
- Magic bone gives advice. (Cf. D1013.) · D1312.2 entry
carried in tale type
- The Clever Horse (previously Ferdinand the True and Ferdinand the False) · ATU 531
- The Kind and the Unkind Girls (previously The Spinning-Women by the Spring · ATU 480
- The Man who Flew like a Bird and Swam like a Fish · ATU 665
- The Man who Understands Animal Languages (previously The Animal Languages) · ATU 670
Thompson cites
- The Library (Bibliotheca) · BOOK I, ch. IX
attested in
- Tales of the North American Indians · Tale 43