The constellation
Z19 Formulistic frameworks – miscellaneous
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
- Game-tales. (Used as game.) · Z19.1 entry
- Tales filled with contradictions · Z19.2 entry
filed beside
- Beginning formulas · Z10.1 entry
- End formulas · Z10.2 entry
- Transition formulas · Z10.3 entry
- Endless tales. Hundreds of sheep to be carried over stream one at a time, etc. The wording of the tale so arranged as to continue indefinitely · Z11 entry
- Unfinished tales. Just as the interest is aroused the narrator quits. "If the bowl had been stronger my tale had been longer." · Z12 entry
- Catch tales. The manner of the telling forces the hearer to ask a particular question, to which the teller returns a ridiculous answer · Z13 entry
- "Runs." Conventional passages of set form within a tale, usually recited in a different voice from the rest · Z14 entry
- Tale avoiding all pronouns · Z15 entry
- Tales ending with a question · Z16 entry
- Rounds. Stories which begin over and over again and repeat · Z17 entry