Linked Motifs

Motif	Name	Description
i40	Rainbow bow	Rainbow is a bow
k27 (motif is not in the correlation table)	Competitions and difficult tasks	Person is suggested to fulfill tasks that are mortally dangerous or cannot be fulfilled without supernatural helpers or capacities. The person fulfills the tasks and remains alive. A contest between persons has form of a competition or game in which the loser is deprived of his status or life
k27n	Difficult tasks of the in-laws	A man must fulfill difficult tasks (to win competition) to receive the permission for a marriage
k27n1	Task-giver is a king or a chief	Person who gives difficult tasks to the hero and/or person who demands the fulfillment of certain conditions from those who want to marry his daughter is a prominent figure in social hierarchy. He is a head of the socio-political unit of community or super-community level and is neither a member of the hero’s household nor a mythical being
k36	Bewitched into animal	Person is temporary transformed into animal (usually into a dog or coyote or into donkey, ox, etc.). When he acquires his human guise again, the antagonist suffers similar transformation. In some texts only the hero or only the antagonist is transformed
k81	The handless girl	For minor offence or because of false accusation a young girl or woman is maimed and expelled from home (rare: killed or she kills herself). The maimed person magically obtains her body integrity (the dead revives)
l93a	Helpful fox	Cunning fox, jackal or coyote saves particular person or many people, helps them
m136b	Cutting off the branch	Man sitting on branch of a tree cuts it off and similar variants (man climbs a rope and cuts it off; men cut a tree and climb on it to fell it; man climbs with difficulty on a dead branch of a tree, which breaks off)
m145	The lion in a well	A weak (animal) person demonstrates a strong one his reflection in water. The latter believes that an animal like he contests his supremacy, invites him for a visit, etc., usually jumps in and drowns
m153	Letter on the hoof	The wolf (lion, etc.) is going to eat a horse (mule, etc.). The horse asks him to look at his hoof (for different reasons) or eat him from his hindquarters forward; then he kicks him
m156	The ungrateful one returned to captivity	An (animal) person saves a dangerous animal from a snare or the like. The saved one is going to kill his savior but the third person saves the second (usually tricks the first one to captivity again)
m156a	Objects that give the answers	Dangerous animal seeks to kill a person or other animal who rescued it from captivity. The dangerous animal and its victim agree to ask somebody else if a good deed should be repayed with a bad one. Inanimate objects are among those who answer to this question
m157	The impossible giving birth	Person claims that a man or a male animal had given birth (or is menstruating) or that a female gave birth to a young of another species or that a woman gave birth to an animal
m197a	The pot has a child and dies	A borrower returns a cattle (pot) together with a small one, claiming that the cattle gave birth to a child. He borrows the pot again but does not return it, claiming that the pot dies
m29b1	The wolf is a failure	Because of its stupidity and unsocial behavior, the wolf suffers a reverse, is injured or dies
m29g	Trickster-hare or rabbit	In episodes related to deception, absurd, obscene or anti-social behavior the protagonist is hare or rabbit
m29w3	The lion is a failure	Because of its stupidity and unsocial behavior, the lion suffers a reverse, is injured or dies
n20	They attained their desires	Closing formula of the folktale: the teller says that the characters attained their desires, goals and/or happiness or that God satisfied their desires

Similar traditions based on Cosmology and Etiology motifs:
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Kurds
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Lezgians, Archin, Kürin; Khinalug
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Bashkirs
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Parachi, Ormur
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Punjabi, Seraiki (Multani)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Hindi-speaking peoples and casts (incl. Teli, Parahiya; incl. Chhattisgarhi) of Northern and West-Central India
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Finns
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Tajik
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Spain
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Tabasaran, Aghul

Similar traditions based on Adventures and Tricks motifs:
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 9 Tradition: Persians
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 8 Tradition: Greeks (modern)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 8 Tradition: Anatolia Turks
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 8 Tradition: Kazakh
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 7 Tradition: Bashkirs
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 7 Tradition: Latvians
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 7 Tradition: Cherkassians, Adyghe, Kabardin
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 7 Tradition: Croatians; Italians of Dalmatia (if the motif is absent among other Italians)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 7 Tradition: Turkmen
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 7 Tradition: Georgians