The constellation
J2495 Religious words or exercises interpreted with absurd literalness
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 fool – miscellaneous · J2490 entry
beneath it
- Praying to the nearer virgin. One man prays to the Virgin of Aix-la-Chapelle. The other: "That place is too far away; she can't be here in time to help." He prays to the Virgin of a nearer town · J2495.1 entry
- Debtors do not forgive. "The Lord's Prayer has little power. I forgive my debtors but my debtors do not forgive me." · J2495.2 entry
- Did not want to be Christ. An actor representing Christ in a Passion Play is beaten by Jews. He throws the cross down: "The devil may be God; I won't." · J2495.3 entry
- Peasants want a living God. An artist, ordered to make a crucifix, asks peasants if they want a living God. They say yes. "If we don't like him we can kill him ourselves." · J2495.4 entry
- Numskulls believing that God has reposed on a leaf want to cross river on one · J2495.5 entry
carried in tale type
- Bearing his Cross · ATU 1351G*