The constellation
J1142 Pseudo-scientific methods of detecting
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
beneath it
- Test of mother by weighing milk. The one with the heavier milk the mother of the boy; the other of the girl · J1142.1 entry
- Love detected by quickening pulse. A woman's adulterous love detected through her pulse quickening at mention of her lover · J1142.2 entry
- Adultery detected by spit marks on the wall. Too high to have been made by husband · J1142.3 entry
- Thief's corpse carried through street to see who will weep for him · J1142.4 entry