Linked Motifs

Motif	Name	Description
a12	Eclipses: monster’s attack	Some creature or creatures regularly (sunrise and sunset, summer and winter, lunar phases) or irregularly (solar and lunar eclipses, eschatological events) attack the luminaries or shade their light
a12c	Eclipses: reptiles and fish	During an eclipse or at the sunset the Sun or the Moon are attacked by a reptile (a snake, a lizard, a dragon, a crocodile) or a fish
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)
a32c1	Predator animal in the Moon	A predator animal (fox, wolf, dog, coyote, jaguar, lion) or its imprint is seen in the Moon
b46b	Seven star sisters	Every one of the seven main stars of the Ursa major is a female person
b77	Primeval sky close to earth	Originally the sky was close to the earth, then it has risen up
f62	Incognito at the feast	An (ostensibly) sick (ugly, weak, poorly clad) person remains at home when others go to the feast. The person comes by himself or herself looking like a handsome man or beautiful girl. The man (woman) does not recognize him (her) and feels against her (him) sexual interestю (All texts with motif k57, Chinderella, are also included into f62)
i22	Objects in permanent movement	There are objects which remaining on the same place are moving permanently or periodically (meet and part. rise and fall down, shut and open, rotate)
i22d	Water of immortality behind clashing rocks	To get a wonderous medicine that revives (cures) living beings, one must go between clashing rocks
i22g	Clapping rocks	There are mountains or rocks which permanently collide and separate again from each other or a crack (jaws) in a vertical cliff which is opening and closing
i46	Rainbow belt	Rainbow is the ornamented part of the clothes, its decoration, a belt
k118	The prohibited room	Master of the house allows person to feel himself (herself) free bit not to look into particular place. The person breaks prohibition
k146	Life-medicine brought by the hero is used to revive him	The hero is sent to bring a life-medicine. On his way back a friendly woman replaces the real medicine with a useless one or keeps part of it for herself. Using the medicine she revives the hero when he is treacherously killed
k162	The robber gets into the sleeping room	The antagonist (robber, wizard, witch) penetrates into the house of a girl or young woman hiding in a state (in cupboard, etc.) and/or putting her husband (guards) to sleep using a medicine. At the last moment he is destroyed
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
k27f	The task: to get a woman	A task-giver asks the hero to get for him a particular woman
k27hh	To sort grain	A task: to sort a large amount or small particles of different kind (usually seeds of different plants) mixed in container or to count such particles or to pick up the spilled grains
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
k27nn	Envious minister	Not the powerful person himself but his official or adviser tries to get rid of the hero and suggests that the person should give the hero difficult tasks
k27x9	To bring an object from the sea bottom	The hero must bring a small object (often a finger ring) from the bottom of a deep waterbody (often the sea)
k32g	Punishment: torn apart by horses	To punish an antagonist, he or she is tied to a horse (camel, bull) and dragged or he or she is torn apart (usually by horses)
k33g	Fruits of two kinds	One who eats certain fruit (leave, etc.) gets horns (long nose, etc.) or turns into an animal. After eating another fruit (leave) person recovers his or her normal body
k35a3	The master becomes the servant	To obtain privileges of his master, his servant creates situation that results in exchange of their social positions
k35a5	Token to be shown to the protector	Powerful person leaves a token (letter) for a small boy to demonstrate it when he becomes adult and comes to him
k38	Hero helps the nestlings	For helping its children, their powerful mother or father who is a giant bird or (rare) other flying being helps the hero
k38b	The nestlings and the aggressive snake	A serpent or water monster regularly devours or injures children of a bird or other flying creature (almost always nestlings of giant bird). The hero kills the serpent (monster)
k57	Cinderella	A girl who conceals her beauty and/or is poor and oppressed by her stepmother puts on a splendid attire and comes incognito to a feast where a man of high status falls in love with her. He marries her after identifying her by an object given to her or lost by her or (rare) seeing how she changes her clothes
m173a	The thief drops matched objects	The thief drops first one, then the other, of a pair of matched objects (shoes, boots, sword and sheath, knife and folk) in the road. A person passes by the first object but, when he sees the second, he goes back for the first, leaving the animal (or other possessions) behind. The thief takes the animal
m29z1	The Bald-headed	A bald person acts in narratives (thence his usual name: Taz, Tazchi, Kal, Keloglan, Kechal etc.)

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: Greeks (modern)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 7 Tradition: Armenians
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 7 Tradition: Romanians, Moldavians, Aromanians
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 7 Tradition: Bosnia Muslims
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 6 Tradition: Rusyns, Hutsuls
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 6 Tradition: Georgians
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 6 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): 6 Tradition: Cherkassians, Adyghe, Kabardin
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 6 Tradition: Serbs, Monte Negro,

Similar traditions based on Adventures and Tricks motifs:
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 7 Tradition: Italians: Northwest (Mentona, Ticino, Valle-d’Aosta, Piemont, Liguria, Lombardia, Emilia–Romagna)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 7 Tradition: Greeks (modern)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 7 Tradition: Bulgarians
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 7 Tradition: Albanians
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 7 Tradition: Persians
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 6 Tradition: French (northern France)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 6 Tradition: Slovakians
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 6 Tradition: Romanians, Moldavians, Aromanians
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 6 Tradition: Byelarusians
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 6 Tradition: Portuguese