The constellation
J1920 Absurd searches for the lost
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
- The needle (or the like) falls into the sea: sought the next summer · J1921 entry
- Marking the place · J1922 entry
- The rejected bread resought. Numskull looks for bread that he threw away a year before · J1923 entry
- Numskull forgets name of certain food and thinks that it has fallen into sand · J1924 entry