The constellation
J877 Scorned suitor consoles himself by realization that a wife who did not love him would be constant source of trouble
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
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- The fox and the sour grapes. Pretends that the grapes he cannot reach are sour · J871 entry
- Fox in swollen river claims to be swimming to distant town · J873 entry
- Dog driven out of dining room claims to be drunk. Says that he has drunk so much that he does not know how he got out of the house · J874 entry
- Warrior having lost a city claims that he did not wish to sell it for a higher price · J875 entry
- Headless king and tailless tiger, each afraid of other, agree to be friends · J876 entry