The constellation
J1870 Absurd sympathy for animals or objects
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
beneath it
- Filling cracks with butter. Numskull sees cracks in the ground and feels so sorry for them that he greases them with the butter he is taking home · J1871 entry
- Creaking limbs. Numskull hears limbs creaking in the wind. He is sorry for them and holds them apart. While he is caught between them his enemies take advantage of him · J1872 entry
- Animals or objects kept warm · J1873 entry
- Relieving the beast of burden · J1874 entry
- Objects ascribed human feelings · J1875 entry
- Absurd sympathy for animals or objects – miscellaneous · J1879 entry