The constellation
K1994 Wise man sent by king to rival to give him interested advice
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
- Other impostures · K1980 entry
filed beside
- Deception by playing deaf and dumb · K1981 entry
- Ubiquitous beggar. In disguise obtains alms three times from the same person · K1982 entry
- Trickster poses as helper and eats women's stored provisions · K1983 entry
- Girls keep up appearances to deceive suitors as to their desirability · K1984 entry
- Rearing the large-headed and large-eyed bird. When the one rearing the owl learns its age he kills it · K1985 entry
- Devil disguised as candidate for confirmation · K1986 entry
- Devil disguised as man goes to church · K1987 entry
- Brother (sister) secures blessing due to another · K1988 entry
- Hare (jackal) makes horns of wax and poses as horned animal. Horns melt by the fire · K1991 entry
- Devil tries to pass for Jesus. Forbids man to cut wood on Sunday. Disappears when man demands to see the wounds on his hands and feet · K1992 entry