The constellation
R225 Elopement
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
beneath it
keeps company
- Gods furnish substitute for child sacrifice. (Cf. S255.) · S263.2.1 entry
- Color of flag (sails) on ship as message of good or bad news · Z140.1 entry
- Bag of winds. Wind is confined in a bag. Man breaks prohibition against looking into bag and releases winds · C322.1 entry
- Magic drink · D1040 entry
- Magic chair · D1151.2 entry
- Transformation: man to swine · D136 entry
- Lotus causes forgetfulness. (Cf. D965.6, D2004.3.) · D1365.1.1 entry
- Plant as antidote to spells and enchantments. (Cf. D965.) · D1385.2 entry
- Transformation: woman to bitch · D141.1 entry
- Transformation: man to dove · D154.1 entry
cross-ref
Thompson cites
- The Library (Bibliotheca) · APOLLODORI BIBLIOTHECA, ch. 33