The constellation
K236 Literal payment of debt (not real)
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
beneath it
- Fifty ships promised. Forty-nine are moulded out of earth · K236.1 entry
- Drinking only after a bargain. A woman having thus sworn keeps buying and selling the same mule many times a day · K236.2 entry
- Tribute paid in enchanted snow. After payment, snow takes proper form · K236.3 entry
- Literal fulfillment of marriage contract. Man to be released when earth is placed at his head (buried). Dies in grave · K236.4 entry