The constellation
C321 Tabu: looking into box (Pandora)
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
beneath it
keeps company
- Magic airships · D1118 entry
- Magic canoe. (Cf. D1121.) · D1122 entry
- Canoe made by magic · D1122.1 entry
- Waters magically divide and close · D1551 entry
- Love-compelling man sickens of bargain. A man given the power of making all women love him is smothered to death by them · D1904 entry
- Rising and falling sky. Sky rises and falls at horizon, giving periodic access to the other world · F791 entry
- Modesty brings reward · L200 entry
- Kind and unkind. Churlish person disregards requests of old person (animal) and is punished. Courteous person (often youngest brother or sister) complies and is rewarded · Q2 entry
- Boneless man turned over to produce seasons · A1152 entry
- Creator's grandmother. Casually mentioned in the course of the creation myth · A31 entry
cross-ref
carried in tale type
attested in
- Tales of the North American Indians · Tale 3