The constellation
J2469 Instructions followed literally – miscellaneous
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
- Literal obedience · J2460 entry
beneath it
- A lentil in the soup. You said you wished a lentil soup; so I put one in. If you had wished more lentils you should have said so · J2469.1 entry
- Taking the prescription. The fool eats the paper with the prescription on it · J2469.2 entry
- Dividing all they have. So advised, they cut their beds, houses, etc. in two. (Cf. M241.) · J2469.3 entry
- Boy asked to do something to cool women's ears breaks vessels they carry so milk in them can cool their ears off · J2469.4 entry
- Literal fool – something you have never experienced · J2469.5 entry