The constellation
C250 Tabu: drinking
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
keeps company
- Descent to lower world of dead (Hell, Hades) · F81 entry
- Looking tabu · C300 entry
- Boat made by magic · D1121.0.1 entry
- Magic formula (charm) · D1273 entry
- Transformation to escape from captivity · D642.1 entry
- Land of the dead · E481 entry
- Reincarnation. Return from the dead in another form · E600 entry
- Dead oppose return of living from land of the dead. (Cf. F93.1.1.) · F105 entry
- Orpheus. Journey to land of dead to bring back person from the dead · F81.1 entry
- River entrance to lower world · F93.1 entry
Thompson cites
- The Kalevala · Rune XVI
attested in
- Tales of the North American Indians · Tale 55