The constellation
Z50 Cumulative tales – 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
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- Chains involving contradictions or extremes · Z51 entry
- Bird avenges caged mate. Builds cart, yokes frogs to it, arms himself with piece of reed, and proclaims war with king. Collects cat, ants, rope, club, and river. He is put by king into fowl house; cat eats up fowls. In stable rope and club beat up horses. In elephant-house ants get into their brains and kill them all. Tied to king's bed, river floods king in his bed. King gives bird back his mate · Z52 entry
- The animals with queer names: as hen (henny-penny), cock (cocky-locky), goose (goosey-poosey). (Cf. Z32.2.1.) · Z53 entry
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- The little old lady who swallowed a fly. She swallows a spider to eat up the fly, a bird to eat up the spider, a dog to eat the bird, a cow to eat the dog. "The little old lady swallowed a horse – she died, of course." · Z49.14 entry
- Chain of killings: bulbul destroys flower and is killed by cat; cat shaken by dog; dog killed by boy; boy sentenced to death by king · Z49.13 entry
- Hermit must get cat to kill rats in hunt, cow to give cat milk, etc · Z49.12 entry
- Thief breaks foot climbing wall to rob. Suit against owner for dangerous wall · Z49.11.2 entry
- Chains involving contradictions or extremes · Z51 entry
- The house is burned down. – That is too bad. – That is not bad at all, my wife burned it down. – That is good. – That is not good, etc · Z51.1 entry
- Bird avenges caged mate. Builds cart, yokes frogs to it, arms himself with piece of reed, and proclaims war with king. Collects cat, ants, rope, club, and river. He is put by king into fowl house; cat eats up fowls. In stable rope and club beat up horses. In elephant-house ants get into their brains and kill them all. Tied to king's bed, river floods king in his bed. King gives bird back his mate · Z52 entry
- The animals with queer names: as hen (henny-penny), cock (cocky-locky), goose (goosey-poosey). (Cf. Z32.2.1.) · Z53 entry