Linked Motifs

Motif	Name	Description
b50	Whose blood is sweeter?	An insect feeds on human blood (flesh). Dangerous person asks it where it had sucked blood or whose blood (flesh) is the most delicious. Usually the insect lies or cannot answer (its tongue is cut off) and thanks to this dangerous person attacks certain plants or animals and not people
b51a	The snake is an enemy of the swallow	The snake is an enemy of the swallow (usually because swallow does not let snake to destroy people; the snake sends mosquito or other bloodsucking insect to get know whose blood is the most delicious; the insect flies back to report that human blood is the sweetest; swallow bites its tongue off and the snake gets to pull off feathers from the swallow's tail)
c3	Snakes stops up a hole in the Noah’s arch	When a hole is opened in the arch (rare: in the ground) from which a torrent of water flows, a snake (eel, frog) stops it up with its own body
i82h	Venus’ name is Čolpan	The name of the Venus is like Čolpan, Čolbon, Tsulmon, etc.
i85	Polaris is a pole, a nail	Polaris is a (tethering) pole or a nail
i85a	Animals walk around Polaris	Hoofed animals are walking around Polaris or the movement of stars is compared with the movement of animals around a post
i94	The Pleiades are openings	The Pleiades are holes in the firmament
k56b	The worthy man is rewarded, the unworthy punished	First one, then another man meets a powerful person or persons. The first man is worthy and rewarded with treasure, prestige or the like. The second man (or two men) follows him, behaves in a wrong way and is punished
k56e	Two humpbacks	Two men have a similar defect (a hump, a lump). One spends a night in a place where spirits free him from his defect. Another comes to the same place but spirits double his defect giving him what they had taken off from the first man
l110	The devourer	A demonic being swallows a multitude of people and animals. When it is killed and cut open, the swallowed ones come out alive or are revived
l19b	Beings with odd number of heads	Being (any besides birds) with more than ten heads or with odd (but more than one) number of heads are described in tales or represented in art. If beings with ever more number of heads are named, the row ends with a being that has odd (or more than ten) number of heads
m116	Wisdom of hidden old man saves kingdom	People are ordered to kill their fathers or (rare) mothers (the Nyoro: to deprive them of power and property; the Baluch: not to take them setting off for the journey). An old man concealed by his son helps to resolve difficult problem
m39a1	Misunderstood instructions: a step behind	Fool follows instructions that were reasonable in every previous episode but become absurd in every next one
m39a2	Fool puts a needle into the hay	Fool puts a small sharp object (needle, pin, nail) in a place when it is impossible later to find it (a cart-load of hay, a bag of flour. etc.)
m39a5a	The sausage rain	Because telling the truth a stupid son (wife, husband)) can bring misfortune upon the family, his mother (wife; her husband) mystifies him (her) making him or her describe events that are definitely impossible. People take him (her) for a fool and let alone.

Similar traditions based on Cosmology and Etiology motifs:
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 8 Tradition: Bashkirs
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 8 Tradition: Astrakhan Tatars, Karagash Nogai
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 7 Tradition: Kirghiz
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 7 Tradition: Kazakh
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 6 Tradition: Anatolia Turks
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 6 Tradition: Kumyk, Terekemen
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 6 Tradition: Khakas
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 6 Tradition: Uyghur
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 6 Tradition: Southern Altai: Altai proper (Altai-Kiji), Telengit
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 6 Tradition: Buryats: Western (Cis-Baikal)

Similar traditions based on Adventures and Tricks motifs:
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 7 Tradition: Bashkirs
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 6 Tradition: Greeks (modern)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 6 Tradition: Hungarians
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 6 Tradition: Czech
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 6 Tradition: Germans: Northwest (Low- and Central German dialects): Schleswig-Holstein, Niedersachsen (Lower Saxony, incl. East Frisia and Oldenburg), Nordrhein-Westfalen, Hessen, Rheinland-Pfalz, Thüringen, Saxony-Anhalt, Sachsen
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 6 Tradition: Lithuanians
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 6 Tradition: Latvians
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 6 Tradition: Georgians
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 6 Tradition: Swedes
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 6 Tradition: Finns