Linked Motifs

Motif	Name	Description
b116a	Knowledge preserved in the stomach	Person or animal swallows sacred book or its remains. During rituals this knowledge is actualized in the oral text, in sounds of musical instruments made of the animal body parts or in animal body parts used for divination
b116c	Sacred book lost	In the past a particular groups of people possessed scripture and knowledge that were later lost or the people missed opportunity to obtain them
k1f	Conflict because of a woman	A man maroons another because of jealousy or because he plans to take hold of his wife
k2	The destroyed ladder	Hero climbs up (e.g. to a tree) or down (e.g. into a deep cave) by ladder, rope, from branch to branch, etc. The rope etc. breaks or is intentionally destroyed and the hero cannot return to the ground. (All cases of motif K2A, besides the Koreans, also contain motif K2)
k24	Stolen clothes of supernatural woman	Women (rare: men) who possess supernatural power and usually come from a non-human world (from sky, from under the water, they are winged beings, bird- or animal-persons; rare: a girl of higher social status than the hero) take off their clothes (feather skins and the like) or part of it. Because a person hides the clothes (of one of them), their owner(s) have (has) to marry him or help him (rare: her)
k25	Magic wife	A man consciously marries a woman related to the non-human world

Similar traditions based on Cosmology and Etiology motifs:
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Kalmyk
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Viet, Muong
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Kachin (Jingpho), Chak, Maru
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Lahu, Kucong, Yi, Nosu (Nuosu, Northern Yi), Nisu, Nusu, Sani, Jino, Lolo (incl. Bai), Axi, Nasu
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Kuki, Chiru, Falam (Hallam), Chin (Meitei =Manipuri, Khami, =Kumi), Lakher, Mizo (Lushei), Anal, Pawi (Lai), Purum, Koireng, Milhiem, Kolhen, Mru
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Palaung (De Ang, Deang)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Buryats: Western (Cis-Baikal)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Gurung; Kaike
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Kazakh
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Bidayuh (incl. Maloh), Iban (Sea Dayak), Sakarram; Brunei

Similar traditions based on Adventures and Tricks motifs:
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Bulgarians
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Macedonians
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Kuki, Chiru, Falam (Hallam), Chin (Meitei =Manipuri, Khami, =Kumi), Lakher, Mizo (Lushei), Anal, Pawi (Lai), Purum, Koireng, Milhiem, Kolhen, Mru
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Chin-Naga: Ao, Mao, Sema, Zeme, Liangmai, Kolren, Kom, Lhota, Rengma, Angami, Kabui, Tangkhul, Koirenf
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: French (northern France)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Hungarians
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Viet, Muong
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: SE Australia: Kamilaroi, Yualarai (Ualarai, Euahlayi), Milpulo (Mailpurgu), Wuradjeri (Wiradjurim, Wiradjeri, Wurundjeri, Yarra, Yarra Yarra), Wongaibon (Wonghibon), Noongahburrah (Narran, Narran River), Kurnai, and many others (see file 0.doc)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Mansi
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Rushani, Shughni, Khufi, Bartangi