The constellation
K736 Snapping door. Traps victims
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The same sky, in words
filed under
- Victim trapped · K730 entry
keeps company
- Captured animals avenge themselves · Q385 entry
- Precocious infant · T585 entry
- Supernatural growth. (Cf. T585.) · T615 entry
- Sun father-in-law · A226 entry
- Animal bribed with food. (Sop to Cerberus.) · B325.1 entry
- Animal as guard of person or house · B576.1 entry
- Guardian animals evaded · B576.1.1 entry
- Burning magically evaded. (Cf. D1656.) · D1841.3 entry
- Transformation: man to feather · D275 entry
- Protean beggar: Person assumes successive forms in order to beg · D611 entry
attested in
- Tales of the North American Indians · Tale 39