The constellation
D2131 Magic underground journey
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
- Magic transportation · D2120 entry
keeps company
- Magic air journey · D2135 entry
- Life token. (Cf. E760.) Object (animal, person) has mystic connection with the life of a person, so that changes in the life-token indicate changes in the person, usually disaster or death · E761 entry
- Thunderbird. A mythical giant bird usually thought of as a thunder-god · A284.2 entry
- Helpful animal. See also entire section B300–599, especially B350 · B300 entry
- Roc. A giant bird which carries off men in its claws · B31.1 entry
- Grateful animals · B350 entry
- Helpful wild beasts – felidae · B431 entry
- Animal nurse. Animal nourishes abandoned child · B535 entry
- Bat rescues man from height. Bat lets him down in a spider-web basket · B542.1.2 entry
- Magic footwear · D1065 entry
carried in tale type
- The Danced-out Shoes · ATU 306
attested in
- Tales of the North American Indians · Tale 43