The constellation
D1786 Magic power at cross-roads
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
- Means of producing magic power · D1760 entry
keeps company
- Flow of blood magically stopped. (Cf. D1504.) · D2161.2.2 entry
- Task: making an invisible knot with an egg · H1021.5 entry
- Task: making boat from splinters of a spindle and shuttle · H1022.7 entry
- Task: splitting a hair with a blunt knife · H1023.14 entry
- Magic song · D1275 entry
- Magic song heals wound. (Cf. D1275.) · D1503.1 entry
cross-ref
- Magic earth from crossroads. (Cf. D1786.) · D935.0.1 entry
Thompson cites
- The Kalevala · Rune VIII