The constellation
D1550 Magic object miraculously opens and closes
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
- Waters magically divide and close · D1551 entry
- Mountains or rocks open and close. (Cf. D931, D932.) · D1552 entry
- Symplegades. Rocks that clash together at intervals. (Cf. D931.) · D1553 entry
- Magic forest opens and closes for hero to pass. (Cf. D941.) · D1554 entry
- Underground passage magically opens · D1555 entry
- Self-opening tree-trunk. (Cf. D950.) · D1556 entry
- Magic charm causes door to open. (Cf. D1273.) · D1557 entry