The constellation
G314 Pine bender. Kills victims by springing tree
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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● tale type
● on the shelf
● attested
The same sky, in words
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Thompson cites
- The Library (Bibliotheca) · BOOK III, ch. XVI
filed beside
- Old man of the sea. Burr-woman. Ogre who jumps on one's back and sticks there magically · G311 entry
- Cannibal ogre · G312 entry
- Procrustes. Monster makes men fit his bed. Tall men sawed off, short men stretched · G313 entry
- Cycnus. Cuts off heads of strangers in order to build temple of heads · G315 entry
- Giant robber with club · G316 entry
- Wrestling ogre · G317 entry
- Cliff-ogre. Kicks victims over cliff · G321 entry
- Piercer-of-souls: fishes men · G322 entry
- Brother-Dead. Trapper of game; silent; pursues trickster · G323 entry
- Swinging ogre. Girls who swing their lovers over pit, cut rope, and later devour them · G327 entry