The constellation
H734 Riddle: what is the mother who devours her children when they grow up? (Ocean and rivers.)
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
- Metaphorical riddles · H720 entry
carried in tale type
- The Princess who Cannot Solve the Riddle · ATU 851
filed beside
- Riddle of the year · H721 entry
- Riddle of the day and night. (Cf. H721.1, H721.2, H721.4.) · H722 entry
- Riddle of the course of the sun · H725 entry
- Riddle: who are the real travellers? The son and the moon · H726 entry
- Riddle of king and courtiers · H731 entry
- Riddle white field, black seed. (Paper with writing.) · H741 entry
- Riddle: two legs, three legs, four legs. (Man, three-legged stool dog.) · H742 entry
- Riddle: four hang, four walk, two show the road, one wags behind. (Cow's teats, feet, eyes, tail.) (Other answers: cat, dog, horse, hog, etc.) · H743 entry
- Riddle: six legs, four ears, two faces, etc. (Horse and rider.) · H744 entry
- Riddle: bill white, horns on feet, knob on head (cock) · H746 entry