Linked Motifs

Motif	Name	Description
b16c	Salt-grinding mill	Magic mill is ordered to grind salt but not ordered to stop. It sinks into ocean and continues to work making the water salty
b42q	Ursa major is a carriage	Ursa major is identified with a carriage, a cart
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
e12	The animated drawing	Person draws an object or creature and it becomes alive
i128	Ursa major is a dipper	Ursa major is a dipper, a ladle
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
m114b1	What is the fattest, sweetest, swiftest?	Answering to a question what is the fatties, sweetest, swiftest, etc., the clever person names abstract notions and non-material values (and a fool names particular objects or creatures)
m118	Source of values is destroyed imprudently	Person or animal gets access to values that are inside an animal, a tree, a rock or other enclosure. Later he himself or more often somebody else tries to do the same but destroys source of values, blocks access to it or makes it too dangerous

Similar traditions based on Cosmology and Etiology motifs:
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Don Cossaks
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Russians: Central part of Russian ethnic territory as in A.D. 1500: Tver, Yaroslavl, Moscow, Kostroma, Vladimir, Ivanovo, Nizhny Novgorod, Ryazan, Tula, Kaluga, eastern part of Smolensk provinces (most of Smolensk province is Belorussian ethnic territory)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Occitanie (southern France): Limousin, Auvergne, Provence, Aquitaine, Albret, Gers, Aveyron (Rouerge), Armagnac, Landes, Gascogne, Vivarés, Roussillon, Pyrénées, Bearne, Guyenne, Bigorre, Ain, Hautes Alpes, Ariège, Vienne, Aude, French part of Swiss
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Russians: Southern part of ethnic territory as in A.D. 1500 (Belgorod, Voronezh, Tambov, Penza, Lipetsk, Orel, Kursk, Bryansk provinces; in case of absence in other areas also Russians in Samara, Simbirsk and Saratov provinces)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Byelarusians
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 2 Tradition: Mari (Cheremis)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 2 Tradition: Catalan
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 2 Tradition: Bashkirs
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 2 Tradition: Chuvash
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 2 Tradition: Lithuanians

Similar traditions based on Adventures and Tricks motifs:
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Hungarians
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Serbs, Monte Negro,
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Finns
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Latvians
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Russian Pomors (“seasiders): Arkhangelsk province without its southern part (Shengur district and Konosha dstrict), Karelia White Sea coast
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 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): 4 Tradition: Don Cossaks
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Arabs of Levant (Syria, Palestine, Lebanon, Jordan); Bedouins of Sinai
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Norwegians
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Mari (Cheremis)