The constellation
F703 Lands with extraordinary names. Land of the boot, the towel, the walking-stick, and the like
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
- Extraordinary places · F700 entry
keeps company
- Flying carts · F861.2.1 entry
- Cannibal giant. (Cf. G82, G83, G84.) · G11.2 entry
- Oaths before gods as test of truth · H253 entry
- Suitor contests: bride offered as prize · H331 entry
- Land sinks and lake appears as punishment · Q552.2.1 entry
- Daughter unwittingly promised to dog rescuer. (Cf. B620.1.) Without knowing that a dog has rescued her, the father offers her in marriage to her rescuer · S247 entry
- Husband and wife kill themselves so as not to be separated · T211.3 entry
- Lecherous brother. Wants to seduce (marry) his sister · T415.1 entry
- Misshapen child from brother-sister incest. (Cf. T415.) · T550.3 entry
- Princess offered as prize to rescuer · T68.1 entry
carried in tale type
- The Extraordinary Names · ATU 1940
Thompson cites
- Myths & Legends of China · Chapter XVI