Linked Motifs

Motif	Name	Description
b36a	Two creatures decorate each other	Two zoomorphic personages decorates each other or somebody decorates each of them
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
b38	The ruined painting	Person paints birds or animals or they paint each other. Some of them are not satisfied with the result
b38a	Two birds decorate each other	Two birds decorate each other, one becomes worse than it was before
b3a	Primeval waters	Water is the original element, the dry earth appears later
b3b	Earth grows big	Original earth was small and later increased in size or the fertile soil grew from a small amount of original substance
f49	The abnormal birth	Cesarean operation upon a woman at childbirth as a custom
f54	Oedipus	A young man and a woman (Konkani: a young girl and a man) marry and later get to know that they commited incest
f54c	Recognized by imprints of finger-nails	Husband notices imprints of finger-nails on his wife’s face and assembles all the men to recongize the culprit
k12	Woman is lost and returned	By trick or by force, a rival or adversary kidnaps hero's wife or bride. The man gets her back
k176	A man in search of the woman	A (young) man sets off to find or to return his bride or his wife
k31	Wooden seal	Person makes a sea mammal or fish of wood, it carries another person or persons into the open sea or kills him or them
k32	The false wife	An ugly, old, lazy, etc. woman or (in Chaco) a male trickster comes to man under disguise of his wife or bride who is driven out, confined to the underworld, killed, etc.
k35	False husband	An imposter pretends to be the hero to take his position and/or to marry or to violate his woman
k56b	The worthy man is rewarded, the unworthy punished	First one, then another man meets a powerful person or persons. The first man is worthy and rewarded with treasure, prestige or the like. The second man (or two men) follows him, behaves in a wrong way and is punished
l106	Lost object claimed back	An antagonist makes a demand to the hero which is correct in form but really is unjustified. The hero fulfills the claims or is punished. Now antagonist takes an object or animal possessed by the hero, is unable to give it back and is punished
l113	The ogre bridegroom	A girl (rejects suitors for a long time but at last) falls in love with a handsome man who proves to be a demon or animal. Usually she eventually escapes from him
m183	A race: one against many	Many animals of one species that all look identical together fulfill the task that would be impossible for any of them if he were alone; the competitors believe that the task was fulfilled by only one animal. Usually a slow and a fast animals agree to race. The slow one puts other animals of his species at the finish or along the distance, each one answering the fast one that he is ahead of him. The fast one accepts his loss
m185	On the tail of the fast one (animals)	A slow and a fast animals (or not flying bird) agree to race. The slow one imperceptibly sticks to the fast one’s body (or to a vehicle) and getting to the finish pretends to come there simultaneously with the fast one or before him
m185a	On the tail of the winner (all versions)	Birds, animals or fish compete as about who is the fastest or can fly higher than others. A weak one imperceptible sticks to the body of the fastest or strongest and wins
m187a	Swimming match of the fish	Two different fish (a fish and a whale, dolphin, squid, squid and dolphin, etc.) agree to have a race
m29m	Trickster is a rat	In episodes related to deception, absurd, obscene or anti-social behavior the protagonist is a rat
m5a	Passengers of the sinking canoe	Small animals ride a canoe, it sinks, all try to save their lives in their own way
m81	Blind persons	A man travels and comes to two or several blind (usually old) persons
m81d	Blind persons cured	A man comes across (often in the sky) one or two blind persons and cures their eyes

Similar traditions based on Cosmology and Etiology motifs:
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 7 Tradition: Khmer
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 6 Tradition: Marshall Islands, incl Ailinglapalap, Arno, Jaluit, Kili, Lae, Maloelap, Majuro, Ratak, Wotho, Ujae, Jaluit (=Jalooj), Namdrik
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 6 Tradition: Gwich'in (Kutchin, Loucheux)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 6 Tradition: North Alaskan Inupiat
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 6 Tradition: Bidayuh (incl. Maloh), Iban (Sea Dayak), Sakarram; Brunei
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 6 Tradition: Kayan, Bahau, Kenja, Aoheng, Punan (Bukat, Basap, Oloh Ot, etc); "Klemantan"
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Karachays, Balkar
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Northern Altai: Chelkan, Kumanda, Tubalar
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Forest (Upper Kolyma) Yukaghir (Oduls)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Central Yakuts (Sakha)

Similar traditions based on Adventures and Tricks motifs:
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Greeks (modern)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Spain
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Truk, Eastern Fayu, Losap, Pulap, Puluwat, Mortlock (incl. Satawan)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Ulithi, Ngulu
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Byelarusians
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Latvians
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Bulgarians
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Ponape, Ngaik, Mwoakil (Mokil), Kusaie (Kosrae)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Ukrainians: Western dialects to the East of Carpathians
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Tiv, Bamum (Bamun), Mungaka (Mgaka, Bali), Beba, Anaguta, Bete (Mbete, Karang), Ekoi, Nyang, Vute (Wute), Jukun, Chamba, Bamileke, Kwotto, Kirri; Denya (Nyang)