The constellation
Z21 Chains based on numbers
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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● on the shelf
● attested
The same sky, in words
filed under
beneath it
filed beside
- Cumulative nonsense tales · Z20.1 entry
- Ehod mi yodea (One; who knows?); Le dodici parole della verità, Las doce palabras retorneadas. The numbers from one to twelve are brought into relation with various objects, often of religious significance · Z22 entry
- How the Rich Man paid his Servant (Lönen hos den rike man). A farmer pays his servant in the first year a hen, in the second a cock, goose, goat, cow, horse, .... girl. farmstead · Z23 entry
- The forgetful man counts the days of the week. On Monday they go to mill, etc. He thus discovers that it is Sunday · Z24 entry
- Fly forgets her name; asks woodcutter, axe, tree, etc., in vain. Finally foal in mare's belly says her name is "fly" · Z25 entry