The constellation
F500 Remarkable persons. Extraordinary size, form, appearance, or habits
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
keeps company
- Headless person with eyes (eye) and mouth on breast · F511.0.1.1 entry
- Headless persons cannot smell or hear · F511.0.1.2 entry
- Person with one eye in center of forehead. (Cf. F441.4.1, F531.1.1.1.) · F512.1.1 entry
- Armless people · F516.1 entry
- Armless people have legs growing from their shoulders. Use toes in place of fingers · F516.1.1 entry
- Long-armed people · F516.3 entry
- Long-legged people · F517.0.2 entry
- Feathered people · F521.2 entry
- Person with wings · F522 entry
- Person with half a body. As if body has been split in two · F525 entry
cross-ref
Thompson cites
- Myths & Legends of China · Chapter XVI