The constellation
K831 Victim killed while being bathed
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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- 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
- Ariadne-thread. Prisoner given a thread as a clue to find his way out of the labyrinth in which he is being confined · R121.5 entry
- Rescue by captor's daughter (wife, mother) · R162 entry
- Elopement · R225 entry
- Gods furnish substitute for child sacrifice. (Cf. S255.) · S263.2.1 entry
Thompson cites
- The Library (Bibliotheca) · APOLLODORI BIBLIOTHECA, ch. 33