The Wasting Sickness of Cú Chulainn: two Samhains a year apart. Two birds on a chain of red gold, two smiling women with horsewhips, a year without a word, a land across the water where no lie is told, a wife with sharpened knives, a cloak shaken between two lovers, and a drink of forgetting. The fifth tale in Samhain, the series.
A faithful retelling for readers about ten and up, page by page. A love story, and a ghost story about forgetting one.
Who does what — grouped by role, linked to the movements where they appear, and to one another.
The cast as a graph — every relationship in the tale, force-laid. Hover a node to light up its ties; click to open its card.
Drag/scroll/pinch to explore. Node size marks principals; colour marks role. Built straight from the relationship edges in the character cards.
The tale laid against Propp's 31 narrative functions — each beat linking to the movement that realises it.
Drag/scroll/pinch to explore; click a node to jump to its detail below.
The tale laid against Greimas's actantial model — the functional structure of wanting beneath the plot. Not the social web of who-knows-whom, but the single engine of desire: who wants what, who sends it, who aids and who blocks.
The tale by call-number: the Thompson Motif-Index, Christiansen's Migratory Legends, and the native Irish tale-genres.
One graph, all the layers. The ten movements run as a spine; characters, motifs, story-functions, type-scenes and the Object of desire hang from the moments they touch — and whatever cross-cuts the tale is pulled toward the centre.
Movements I–X run as the sea-green spine. Hover a node to light its threads; click any node for detail. Toggle the layers above to isolate one kind of connection.