The constellation
B551 Animal carries man across water
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
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The same sky, in words
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- Animals carry men · B550 entry
beneath it
- Fish carries man across water. (Cf. B541.1, all references in R246.) · B551.1 entry
- Aquatic bird carries man across water · B551.2 entry
- Crocodile carries man across river (ocean) · B551.3 entry
- Water snake carries boy across river · B551.4 entry
- Turtle (tortoise) carries person across river (ocean) · B551.5 entry
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