Linked Motifs

Motif	Name	Description
a21	Luminaries are objects fixed in the sky	The sun and/or the moon are inanimate objects thrown up to the sky or fixed in the sky
a32	Figure on lunar disc	A figure or an imprint of some being or object are seen in the Moon. (For statistical analysis motifs A32A – A32J are also included into A32)
a32a	The Moon rabbit	Rabbit or hare are seen in the moon
a32h	The Moon plant	A tree or bush is seen in the moon
b102	Clouds from smoke	Clouds are formed from smoke that ascends from the earth
b2a	The female earth	The earth is a female person (alone or together with a male person); she is female being or associated with a woman
b37	Creatures are made appear as they are now	Person decorates different birds (rare: fish), share fat between anomals. Since then, the corresponding species acquire present characteristics
b77	Primeval sky close to earth	Originally the sky was close to the earth, then it has risen up
c18a	The cock lures out the Sun from its hiding place	The cock lures out the Sun from its hiding place or people beliefe that the Sun will not rise if the cock would not cry
c23	Tree eclipses sky-light	Growth and falling of giant tree defines the condition of the sky with luminaries on it (tree eclipses the light of the sun, can destroy the sky, tears the sun off the sky, etc.)
c5a	Bird-scouts	Birds or humans later changed to birds are sent to explore the earth (is it dry, are any survivals, to investigate why smoke rises to the sky, etc.) or to bring some soil to make the land that would be good for living
c8	The couple of close relations originates the mankind	In the beginning of time or after the natural disaster brother and sister, mother and son, or father and daughters are the only human beings. They marry and the present day people are their descendents
c8aa	Brother and sister beget the people	In the beginning of time or after the natural disaster brother and sister are the only human beings. They marry and the present day people are their descendents
c8b	Siblings change their looks and marry	In the beginning of time or after the world catastrophe brother and sister or mother and son are the only humans. They reject marriage or only the man does not want to marry his sister or mother. After their looks are changed (or only the sister or mother changes her face) they take each other for strangers, marry and beget the new race
c8e	Survival in the floating bottle gourd	During the flood or in the beginning of times persons (usually brother abd sister) are floating in a big bottle gourd
f18a	The long penis	Penis is so long that he can turn it round his waist or send into a woman who is at a long distance from him. (Only texts considered to describe real events and beings and not anecdotes are included)
f18d	Long clitoris	Female genitals are as long as a big snake
g15	Plant maidens	In the other world or in the time of the ancestors food products or materials used by people looked as persons
g23	Alive being turns into many objects	Person or creature is transformed. Separate parts of its (his, her) body give origin to different objects or creatures (only etiological narratives are considered)
g23a	Alive being turns into plants	Person or creature is transformed. Separate parts of its (his, her) body give origin to different plants, mostly edible or cultivated
g8	Restored tree	A deep notch in the tree (or in the sky support) is magically restored as soon as persons or creatures who cut or gnaw it stop working
i120	Cornucopia	Food and clothes are extracted from the horn of a cow or goat
i135	The sky skin or cloth	The sky (Milky Way) is a skin of an animal or a cloth
i14	No-anus people	Person or creature has no anus opening
i14a	Eject digested food through the mouth	No-anus people eject digested food through the mouth or other orifice
i16	Body anomalies of the first people	First human beings have no mouth, anus or genitals, their women do not know how to give birth
i72	Stars are people	Stars are people, ghosts, anthropomorphic beings (interpretations of unique star objects like Venus or Polaris as persons not considered)
i85c1	The rain stored in the sky	In the sky there is a special container (vessel, skin, box, etc.) for storing the rain
i98c	The Pleiades is a flock of birds	The Pleiades is a flock of birds (in flight)
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
k80a4	Person’s hair turns into grass	Hair of the head of a person turns into grass (thorns, bamboo, shrub)

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Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Maria, Muria, and other South-Central Dravidians: Binjhwar, Baсор, Bhattra, Bom, Jhoria (=Jhodia), Gadaba (in Koraput, neighbors of Munda-speaking Gadaba), Duruwa (Parji), Mehtar; Pardhan
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Kond (Khond, Kondh; language is Kui, incl Kuttia, Konda-Dora), Koya; Pengo
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Bondo, Didayi (Gata')
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Sora (Savara, Saora), Parenga
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Sepik-Ramu stock: Abelam, Yatmul, Aibom, Ayom (incl Tembregak, Asai-river pygmies), Tangu, Porapora (Ambakich), Rao and other groups of Middle Ramu and Upper Keram River tribes; Kwanga, Watam, Kaian, Gamei, Awar; Kire (Lower Ramu)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Northern Taiwan: Atayal (Tayal; Taruko (Toda, Taokas, Torok, Taroko), Pazeh, Sedeq (Sediq, Seedeq, Sazek), Saisiyat (Saixia); Kawalan
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Tribal groups and castes that speak Aryan languages: Dhoba (Dhobi), Halba (Halbi, Pentia), Bhunjia, Lohar (Luhar, Luhara), Kahar, Kamar (Paharia)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 2 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): 2 Tradition: Khasi
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 2 Tradition: Kachin (Jingpho), Chak, Maru

Similar traditions based on Adventures and Tricks motifs:
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Gagauz
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Arabs of Egypt
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Meo (Hmong) of Thailand, Laos and Northern Vietnam
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Miao (Hmong) and Yao of Southern China
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Witoto, Ocaina
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 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): 3 Tradition: Kafir, or Nuristani: Prasun; Kati (incl. Paruni), Ashkun (Ashunu), Waigali
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Koreans; Goguryeo
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Maria, Muria, and other South-Central Dravidians: Binjhwar, Baсор, Bhattra, Bom, Jhoria (=Jhodia), Gadaba (in Koraput, neighbors of Munda-speaking Gadaba), Duruwa (Parji), Mehtar; Pardhan
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Catalan