The constellation
H842 Riddle: animal qualities
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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The same sky, in words
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- Other riddles · H840 entry
beneath it
- What animal which lives in sea-water will drown if taken out of it? (Gním Abraein.) · H842.1 entry
- What animal which lives in fire will burn if taken out of it? (Tegillus, now called salamander.) (Cf. B768.2.) · H842.2 entry
- What animal has one voice living and seven voices dead? (Ibis, from whose carcass musical instruments are made.) · H842.3 entry