The constellation
X1853 Boy with hat of butter, clothes of paper, etc
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
- Other tall tales · X1850 entry
carried in tale type
filed beside
- Man in moon lets himself down. (Cf. A751.) · X1851 entry
- Boy shot from a cannon · X1852 entry
- Man in hollow tree defends himself successfully from leopard and bear · X1854 entry
- Lie: plow without horse or wheels · X1855 entry
- Lie: suckling children rock mother in cradle · X1856 entry
- Lie: man drowned on mountain · X1857 entry
- Lie: man cuts ice with own head · X1858 entry
- Lie: the hunt for the lost bee · X1861 entry
- The over-hasty toad (beetle). Is years ascending steps. On last step falls and curses haste · X1862 entry
- Why gypsies have no churches. They ate up their churches made of cheese and bacon. (Cf. X650.) · X1863 entry