Linked Motifs

Motif	Name	Description
a3	Male sun and female moon	The Moon is female or bisexual, the Sun is male
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
b3e	Earth falls on waters	In the beginning there are only air and water. 1) Person descends from the sky, creates the dry land or a hard support created for her or him grows into the earth. 2) The earth is sent or dropped from the sky, put on the surface of the water. 3) The earth is brought from somewhere (not from the underworld) and put on the water
e9n	Sea mammal-wife	Man marries a seal, dolphin or porpous who takes guise of a woman and lives with her in the human world
f49	The abnormal birth	Cesarean operation upon a woman at childbirth as a custom
f7	The underwater-maiden	Man takes or attempts to take a wife who is connected with the underwater world (fish, crab, snake, water animal and the like)
f80a	Genitals apart from the body	Genitals exist by themselves as separate beings, they can be stuck to the human body, remove, etc.
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
g8a	Cutting tree to make a canoe	To make some object (usually a canoe), person cuts a tree, goes away, returns, finds the tree intact. Usually another person who was restoring the tree by magic fells it down himself and makes a canoe for the hero
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
i45b	Not to point at the rainbow	It to point at the rainbow, pointing finger or entire arm will rot, wither or become crooked
j23	A late son kills monsters	People (elder brothers, elder siblings, elder sister) disappear (one by one). A lonely woman has a baby or finds a baby or she becomes pregnant magically and gives birth to a boy or twins. The boy grows up, exterminates the antagonists, usually revives and releases those who had disappeared
j23c	Youngest brother kills monsters	People (elder brothers, elder siblings, elder sister) disappear (one by one). A lonely woman has a baby or finds a baby or she becomes pregnant magically and gives birth to a boy. The boy grows up, exterminates the antagonists, usually revives and releases those who had disappeared
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
k25	Magic wife	A man consciously marries a woman related to the non-human world
k28	Father or uncle is rival and enemy	Maternal uncle or father (or grandfather if he replaces father who is not mentioned) of the young man is his rival or enemy and tries to kill him
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.
k8a	Jonah: swallowed by monster	Person gets into the belly of water being or into the belly of giant creature which appearance and living place remain vague. He kills the monster from the inside and/or returns to earth by himself (i.e. not extracted by other people)
l103	Obstacle flight (Atalanta type)	Treasure, or the like, is thrown back to tempt pursuer to delay
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
l132	The theft of food: a family conflict	When a member of a small (family) group secretly eats the food reserved for others, a serious conflict (often a murder) follows
l133	Limbs put aside	Person is capable to preserve his limbs apart from his body and use them when needed
l41	Hero escapes on the way	An ogre or ogress catches a person and carries his or her prey home but the person escapes on the way or immediately after reaching the ogre's house
l42h	Ogres who come to a feast devour the host	An ogre brings the hero to his house to feast on him together with other ogres. When the guests get to know that the hero has escaped, they devour the host
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
m187c	A crab is a participant of the race	A crab participates in the race and wins
m21	A protector hides fugitives	The protagonist pursued by an enemy comes across a person, an animal or an object to help him and receives help
m29g2	A crab wins thanks to his smartness	Being smart and witty, the crab overcomes strong adversaries
m29m	Trickster is a rat	In episodes related to deception, absurd, obscene or anti-social behavior the protagonist is a rat
m44c	Thieves of food: a young hero	A boy or young man comes to steal food of a person who is elder than he. Usually he is caught but not punished and invited to live with the elder person
m5a	Passengers of the sinking canoe	Small animals ride a canoe, it sinks, all try to save their lives in their own way
m5b	The ungrateful passenger	An animal (often the rat) who cannot swim well is brought to the shore by another one but pays him with ingratitude

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Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 7 Tradition: Truk, Eastern Fayu, Losap, Pulap, Puluwat, Mortlock (incl. Satawan)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 6 Tradition: Gilbert Islands (Kiribati), Nauru, Banaba (Ocean island)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Palau (Western Carolines)
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Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Ulithi, Ngulu
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Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 7 Tradition: Truk, Eastern Fayu, Losap, Pulap, Puluwat, Mortlock (incl. Satawan)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Yap
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Latvians
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Ulithi, Ngulu
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Italians: Southern (Abruzzo, Campania, Molise, Basilicata, Apulia, Calabria)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Greeks (modern)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Ireland
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Estonians
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Germans: Northeast (Brandenburg, Meklenburg, Rügen, Pommern, Silesia, Posen)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Kapingamarangi, Nukuoro