The constellation
K2156 Innocent man compelled to write treasonable letter. It brings about his death sentence
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 same sky, in words
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- Innocent made to appear guilty · K2150 entry
keeps company
- Fifty ships promised. Forty-nine are moulded out of earth · K236.1 entry
- Stolen goods taken to dupe's house so that he is accused · K401.2 entry
- Trojan wooden horse. Permits capture of the city by concealing soldiers · K754.1 entry
- Victim killed while being bathed · K831 entry
- Prophecy: death through future husband · M341.2.12 entry
- Father kills self believing that son is dead. The son forgets to spread white sails, the prearranged signal of his safety. (Told also of lovers.) · N344 entry
- Wine as reward. Twelve jars of honey-sweet wine as reward for protection. (Cf. Q46.1.) · Q135 entry
- Reward for protecting holy fugitive · Q46.1 entry
- Punishment of Tantalus. Stands in a pool that ever recedes from his thirsty lips; branches of fruit spring away from him; stone over his head continually threatens to fall · Q501.2 entry
- Punishment of Ixion. Lashed to a wheel which revolves continually · Q501.5 entry
Thompson cites
- The Library (Bibliotheca) · APOLLODORI BIBLIOTHECA, ch. 33