The constellation
R135 Abandoned children (wife, etc.) find way back by clue (bread-crumb, grain, pebble, etc.). They have dropped the objects while being led away
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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- Stolen wife makes trail of speaking spittle for husband. Spittle speaks and directs him · R135.0.1 entry
- Trail of grain (Cf.ds). (Cf. R267.) · R135.0.2 entry
- Trail of jewels · R135.0.3 entry
- Trail of shreds of dress · R135.0.4 entry
- Trail of thread · R135.0.5 entry
- Trail of ashes · R135.0.6 entry
- Trail of flowers · R135.0.7 entry
- Crumb (grain) trail eaten by birds. Lost persons cannot find way back · R135.1 entry
carried in tale type
- The Spirit in the Blue Light · ATU 562
- Hansel and Gretel · ATU 327A
- The Robber Bridegroom [K1916] · ATU 955