The constellation
K2033 Trickster makes basket for his partner tiger to carry meat, but does not sever bamboo from roots. Tiger left behind
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
- Double dealers · K2030 entry
filed beside
- Dog alternately bites and caresses hares. Is he friend or enemy? · K2031 entry
- Magpie leads other magpies into his master's net. Promises them that the master will teach them to speak · K2032 entry
- Same reward promised to many helpers · K2034 entry
- Supernatural personages seen in dreams advise opposing kings how each can overcome the other · K2035 entry
- Helper steals object obtained at end of quest · K2036 entry
- Jackal persuades deer to steal from farmer, then informs farmer who catches deer · K2037 entry
- Double dealing physician · K2041 entry
- Crow gets to owls pretending crows have cast him out. Having learned secret retreats of owls, he returns to crows and leads them to victory over owls · K2042 entry
- When wolf pretends to slander tiger fox agrees; later tells tiger he was trying to test wolf's malice · K2043 entry