The constellation
K1972 Oracular images occupied by spirits or priests who give the answers
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
- Sham miracles · K1970 entry
beneath it
filed beside
- Man behind statue (tree) speaks and pretends to be God (spirit) · K1971 entry
- Jackal inside carcass of bullock makes people think his voice is God's. Demands gifts · K1973 entry
- Living man at the grave pretends to be dead man speaking · K1974 entry
- Sham miracle: may the grass grow up! Tricksters who have done no mowing say to their master when he angers them, "May the grass grow up again!" He finds it is full height · K1975 entry
- False miraculous relic · K1976 entry