The constellation
G313 Procrustes. Monster makes men fit his bed. Tall men sawed off, short men stretched
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
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keeps company
- Cliff-ogre. Kicks victims over cliff · G321 entry
- Suitor contest: bending bow of woman's absent husband · H331.4.2 entry
- Loser in bride-race must die · H331.5.0.1 entry
- Suitor contest: race with bride's father · H331.5.2 entry
- Test of resourcefulness: putting thread through coils of snail shell. Thread tied to ant who pulls it through · H506.4 entry
- Solvers of riddles · H561 entry
- Heads placed on stakes for failure in performance of task. Unsuccessful youths are beheaded and heads exposed. Hero sees them when he sets out to accomplish his task · H901.1 entry
- Race won by deception: chariot disabled. A rival in a chariot race inserts linchpins of wax instead of those of bronze in the hero's chariot. The latter is dragged to death · K11.4 entry
- Suitors put off till web is woven. Unwoven each night. (Penelope.) · K1227.2 entry
- Husband in disguise begs food of his wife's suitors · K1568 entry
Thompson cites
- The Library (Bibliotheca) · APOLLODORI BIBLIOTHECA, ch. 33