The constellation
K13 Boxing match: fatal boxer defeated. All comers are challenged and all are killed until the hero defeats the challenger. (Argonauts and Amycus.)
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
keeps company
- Prophesying through knowledge of animal languages · M302.1 entry
- Prophecy: death from hands of man with one sandal · M341.2.9 entry
- Punishment of Sisyphus. Must keep rolling a great stone up hill. It continually falls down · Q501.1 entry
- Horse-keeper rescues abandoned child · R131.8.1 entry
- Mortal fights with "Death". (Cf. R169.16.) · R185 entry
- Murder with poisoned robe. Consumes wearer · S111.6 entry
- Bridal chamber filled with coiled snakes · T172.1 entry
- Woman enamored of a river · T461.1 entry
- Magic potion as remedy for impotence · T591.1.1 entry
- Sleepless dragon · B11.4.3 entry
Thompson cites
- The Library (Bibliotheca) · BOOK I, ch. IX