The constellation
B800 Miscellaneous animal motifs
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
beneath it
- Elephants in folktales · B801 entry
- Horses in tales and legends. (Cf. B41.1, B41.2, B103, B133, B149.1, B151, B181, B811.1.) · B802 entry
- Sacred animals · B811 entry
- Animals try in vain to repair sleigh. They get unsatisfactory materials · B831 entry
- Long-lived animals · B841 entry
- Faithful old dog to be killed · B842 entry
- Immortal animals · B843 entry
- Wild animals herded · B845 entry
- Monkeys construct a bridge across the ocean · B846 entry
- Lions placed in city to prevent entrance · B847 entry
- Man unharmed in den of animals. (Cf. B771.2.1.) · B848 entry
- When cow calls her calf, all cattle graze · B852 entry
- Birds perch on ears of cows · B853 entry
- Each of grazing herd of cows eats same amount · B854 entry
- Man and bear in the rick of hay. The bear, persecuted by wolves, runs onto the hay-rick where the man was hidden, and defends himself from the wolves with bunches of hay · B855 entry
- Animal avenges injury · B857 entry