The constellation
N813 Helpful genie (spirit)
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
- Supernatural helpers · N810 entry
carried in tale type
- The Spirit in the Blue Light · ATU 562
filed beside
- Invisible guardians · N810.1 entry
- Helper's beard and eyebrows cut. Only after hero has performed this service is help forthcoming · N810.2 entry
- Hero's divine father as helper · N810.3 entry
- Supernatural helper comes from sky · N810.4 entry
- Supernatural person disguised as servant as helper · N810.5 entry
- Saint disguised (as poor man) as helper · N810.6 entry
- Supernatural godfather. A king chooses as the godfather of his son the first man he meets. The godfather proves to be supernatural · N811 entry
- Giant or ogre as helper · N812 entry
- Helpful angel · N814 entry
- Fairy as helper · N815 entry