The constellation
B552 Man carried by bird
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
- Animals carry men · B550 entry
beneath it
- Alexander carried by two birds with meat held in front of them · B552.1 entry
- Man carried by peacock · B552.2 entry
- Indra carried by cock · B552.3 entry
keeps company
- Future revealed in dream. (Cf. D1810.8, D1812.5.1.2, D1813.1.) · D1812.3.3 entry
- Rain produced by prayer. (Cf. D1391.1, D2141.0.7.1.) · D2143.1.3 entry
- Transformation: ant to person · D382.2 entry
- Mortal's attempt to defile goddess punished · Q246 entry
- Death by thunderbolt as punishment · Q552.1 entry
- Abandonment on an island. (Marooning.) · S145 entry
- Cupbearer of the gods · A165.3 entry
- Creation of diver (bird) · A1975 entry
carried in tale type
Thompson cites
- The Library (Bibliotheca) · BOOK III, ch. XII