The constellation
D658 Transformation to seduce
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 treasure animal killed. (Goose that laid the golden egg) · D876 entry
- Magic plant · D965 entry
- Resuscitation by herbs (leaves) · E105 entry
- Killed game revives and flies away · E161 entry
- Disintegration: man eats himself up or dismembers himself · F1035 entry
- Person eats self up · G51.1 entry
- Trickster joins bulrushes in a dance. He thinks they are dancing when he sees them waving · J1883 entry
- Person frightened into falling down a cliff · J2611 entry
- Missile thrown among enemies causes them to fight one another · K1082.1 entry
- Liar brings about fight between dupes · K1084 entry
cross-ref
Thompson cites
- The Library (Bibliotheca) · BOOK III, ch. IV
attested in
- Tales of the North American Indians · Tale 38