The constellation
B401 Helpful horse
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
- Helpful domestic beasts · B400 entry
beneath it
- Helpful water-horse · B401.1 entry
keeps company
- Animals save person's life. (Cf. B540.) · B520 entry
- Tabu: man looking at nude goddess · C312.1.1 entry
- Tabu: revealing secrets of god · C51.4 entry
- Transformation: man to woman · D12 entry
- Man looks at copulating snakes: transformed to woman. (Cf. D12.) · D513.1 entry
- Sphinx propounds riddle on pain of death · H541.1.1 entry
- Riddle of the Sphinx: what is it that goes on four legs in the morning, on two at midday, and on three in the evening. (Man, who crawls as a child, walks in middle life, and walks with a stick in old age.) · H761 entry
- Zeus smites Capaneus while he is climbing a ladder · L472 entry
- Punishment for splitting head and eating man's brains · Q211.7 entry
- Punishment: banishment (exile) · Q431 entry
carried in tale type
- The Clever Horse (previously Ferdinand the True and Ferdinand the False) · ATU 531
- The Princess on the Glass Mountain · ATU 530
- The Fight on the Bridge · ATU 300A
Thompson cites
- The Library (Bibliotheca) · BOOK III, ch. VI