The constellation
B557 Unusual animal as riding-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
- Animals carry men · B550 entry
beneath it
- Man carried on goat's horns. (Goat is transformed man.) · B557.1 entry
- Saint carried by wild oxen · B557.2 entry
- Man carried by deer · B557.3 entry
- Crocodile as means of transportation for a saint · B557.4 entry
- Person carried by lion · B557.5 entry
- Magic dog carries owner in his ear · B557.6 entry
- Person carried by cat · B557.7 entry
- Person carried by cobra · B557.8 entry
- Person carried by locust · B557.9 entry
- Person carried by tiger · B557.10 entry
- Person (animal) carried by elephant · B557.11 entry
- Person carried by peacock · B557.12 entry
- Jackal rides on fox · B557.13 entry
- Person carried by frog · B557.14 entry
- Wolf carries man · B557.15 entry
keeps company
- Marriage to person in dog form. (Cf. B635.4, D141.) · B641.1 entry
- Marriage to dog in human form · B651.4 entry
- Jointed snake can join its segments when it is broken into pieces · B765.7 entry
- Tabu: looking under certain bell too soon · C326 entry
- Journey to Land of Women. Island of women, land of maidens, country of the Amazons, etc · F112 entry
- Spirits and demons (general) · F400 entry
- Remarkable persons. Extraordinary size, form, appearance, or habits · F500 entry
- Headless person with eyes (eye) and mouth on breast · F511.0.1.1 entry
- Headless persons cannot smell or hear · F511.0.1.2 entry
- Person with one eye in center of forehead. (Cf. F441.4.1, F531.1.1.1.) · F512.1.1 entry
cross-ref
Thompson cites
- Myths & Legends of China · Chapter XVI