The constellation
Q2 Kind and unkind. Churlish person disregards requests of old person (animal) and is punished. Courteous person (often youngest brother or sister) complies and is rewarded
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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keeps company
- Boneless man turned over to produce seasons · A1152 entry
- Creator's grandmother. Casually mentioned in the course of the creation myth · A31 entry
- Divinity's departure for west · A561 entry
- Culture hero's (divinity's) expected return. Divinity or hero is expected to return at the proper time and rescue his people from their misfortunes. Often joined with A571 · A580 entry
- Tabu: looking into box (Pandora) · C321 entry
- Magic airships · D1118 entry
- Magic canoe. (Cf. D1121.) · D1122 entry
- Canoe made by magic · D1122.1 entry
- Waters magically divide and close · D1551 entry
- Love-compelling man sickens of bargain. A man given the power of making all women love him is smothered to death by them · D1904 entry
carried in tale type
- The Kind and the Unkind Girls (previously The Spinning-Women by the Spring · ATU 480
- The Black and the White Bride · ATU 403
- The House in the Forest · ATU 431
- The Healing Fruits · ATU 610
- Hospitality Blessed · ATU 750*
- Girls Plucking Berries · ATU 750**
- God Punishes a Bad Woman · ATU 750C
- The Old Man with the Live Coals · ATU 751B*
attested in
- Tales of the North American Indians · Tale 3