The constellation
R185 Mortal fights with "Death". (Cf. R169.16.)
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
beneath it
keeps company
- Murder with poisoned robe. Consumes wearer · S111.6 entry
- Bridal chamber filled with coiled snakes · T172.1 entry
- Woman enamored of a river · T461.1 entry
- Magic potion as remedy for impotence · T591.1.1 entry
- Sleepless dragon · B11.4.3 entry
- Animal languages learned from serpent (not eaten). (Cf. B176.) · B165.1 entry
- Brazen-footed, fire-breathing bulls. (Cf. B15.6, B15.5) · B19.1 entry
- Bird language · B215.1 entry
- Grateful animals · B350 entry
- Helpful serpent · B491.1 entry
cross-ref
- Death as rescuer. (Cf. R185.) · R169.16 entry
Thompson cites
- The Library (Bibliotheca) · BOOK I, ch. IX