Linked Motifs

Motif	Name	Description
b77	Primeval sky close to earth	Originally the sky was close to the earth, then it has risen up
b77a	Giant pushed the sky up	One or several (animal)-persons push sky up to its present height
e39	Pig ancestor	A pig is an ancestor of a particular group of people
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)
g24	Food from the sky	First seeds (sprouts, tubors) of cultivated plants or of important edible wild plants are brought from the sky (received from the sky-dwellers)
h34g	One grain porridge	One cereal grain (cob, etc.) is enough to prepare a meal
i100b	The Pleiades are a group of people	The Pleiades are any people (of any ages and sex, combined data of i99-i100a)
i44	Chthonic serpent	Giant serpent lies on the perimeter of the earth or supports the earth
i99	The Pleiades are boys or men	The Pleiades are a group of boys or men, or a group of different people but predominantly males
j64	Person moves on clouds of smoke	Not being burned in a fire, person ascends to the sky or gets across a river on clouds of smoke
k24	Stolen clothes of supernatural woman	Women (rare: men) who possess supernatural power and usually come from a non-human world (from sky, from under the water, they are winged beings, bird- or animal-persons; rare: a girl of higher social status than the hero) take off their clothes (feather skins and the like) or part of it. Because a person hides the clothes (of one of them), their owner(s) have (has) to marry him or help him (rare: her)
k25	Magic wife	A man consciously marries a woman related to the non-human world
k25a1	Magic wife finds her clothes	Magic wife abandons her mortal husband when she finds her clothes (often, her feathers if she is a bird-woman), makes herself the new clothes, receives them from her kin or her husband gives her her clothing believing that she will not abandon him. (Versions with magic wife abandoning her husband because she feels herself offended is not alternative to the “found clothes but in most of the texts these motifs are not combined)
k48	Singing bird of the hero	An antagonist wants that a wonderful bird of the hero sing but it remains mute or cries differently. The bird begins to sing when the hero triumphs over his adversaries
k56	The kind and the unkind girls	One of (step)sisters, co-spouses or young female neighbors meets a being that is able to reward and to punish. She behaves herself properly and is rewarded. Another (other) girl comes to the same being but behaves in a wrong way and is punished (not rewarded).
k83	The sons on a quest for a wonderful remedy for their father	To cure a sick person or to make him (rare: her) young again it is necessary to bring a remedy from a distant country. The medicine is brought and the sick person is cured (becomes young)
l105	Invisible missile	Animal, fish or person wounded by hero runs or swims away, usually with the man's projectile in his or her body. Local doctors are not able to cure the wound (usually because they do not see the projectile). The hero or his companion comes to the place where the wounded one lives and cures him or her (usually extracting his projectile from the wound)
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
l112	Complete body obtained	A boy is born having only half of a body or only a head. Ultimately he obtains normal body
l128	You are Deo but I am Mahadeo	When a demonic person or a predator animal gives his name, the hero or a herbivorous animal invents such a name for himself that suggests his superiority over his opponent
l19b	Beings with odd number of heads	Being (any besides birds) with more than ten heads or with odd (but more than one) number of heads are described in tales or represented in art. If beings with ever more number of heads are named, the row ends with a being that has odd (or more than ten) number of heads
l40	Reflection and shadow	Person discovers (rare:still fails to discover) another getting to see his or her shadow or reflection in water
l42g	Hansel and Gretel	Step mother or more often father (persuaded by his wife) abandons children in a desolate place. Getting to the ogre or ogress, children (or at least one of them) survive and ultimately achieve success
l44	Show me your head!	A man hides in a shelter. An ogre wants him to demonstrate certain parts of his body. The man demonstrates or parts of the body of an animal or some objects. The ogre believes that his adversary is a powerful creature
l44b	The blind got his sight, the lame got his legs	A blind man and a lame man live together and help each other. When they got mortally scared or became to fight with each other, their eyes and legs were cured
l81	Demon’s fire	Person sets off in search of fire and finds it in the house of a demon. The demon makes harm to the person
l85	One-sided people	One-sided people have one leg and/or also one arm, one half of a head, etc. The second leg is not cut or burned off, preserved as a stump but is absent completely
l85a	One-sided child	Person is born as half of a child or loses his or her half in an accident. The person does not belong to any category of supernatural beings and usually turns into normal girl or young man
l85b1	After coming to the sky, the lad gets a normal body	A lad with incomplete or grotesque body becomes normal after coming to the sky (coming to God, getting back to the earth)
m134	A tower of wolves	Animals, demons or people stand one on another making a tower. The lowest one jumps off (bends, jerks), all the rest fall to the ground
m5a	Passengers of the sinking canoe	Small animals ride a canoe, it sinks, all try to save their lives in their own way
m60a	A hunter comes to one whom he wounded	An animal or a supernatural creature is wounded but escapes. Local doctors are helpless. The hero or his companion, masked as a doctor, comes to the wounded one and either cures or kills him.

Similar traditions based on Cosmology and Etiology motifs:
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 7 Tradition: Timor: Amarasi, Tetum, Meto, Atoni (incl Mollo), Kédang (Lomblen island), Leti Islands (Leti, Moa, Lakor)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 6 Tradition: Garo (Atchik), Kachari (Bodo, incl. Lalung), Dimasa, Tripuri, Riang (of Tripura), Khami, Riga, Mori
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): 5 Tradition: Toraja (Toradja), To Mori, Barée (=Eastern Toraja)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Melanesians of the northern coast New Guinea, nearest off-shore islands and Huon Gulf (Morobe district): Watut, Bilbil (Bilibili), Jabim (incl Kai), Tami, Bukawac, Wogeo, Tumleo, Yakamul, Manam, Sissano, Sio
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Kachin (Jingpho), Chak, Maru
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Yavanese, Kalang, Madura
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Udeghe
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Malagasy
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Southern Taiwan: Rukai, Paiwan, Puyuma, Saaroa, Ketangalan

Similar traditions based on Adventures and Tricks motifs:
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 6 Tradition: Northern Halmahera Papuans: Galela, Loda, Pagu, Modole, Tabaru (Tobaru), Tobelo, Tidore, Ternate
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Ceram: Alune and Wemale (West Ceram), Patasiwa (Ceram), Honitetu (West Ceram Highlands); Nusawele, Hatuolu, Huaolu, Patasiwa; Ambon; Buru
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Kei Islands, Tanimbar Islands, Aru Islands, Watubele Islands, Babar Island
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Batak (Toba, Dairi)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Khmer
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Mon
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Numfoor, Warope, Wamesa (Wandamen, Windesi)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Dusun, Murut, Kelabit, Tombonuwo, Bajau, Tidong, Rungus
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Sangir Islands
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Timor: Amarasi, Tetum, Meto, Atoni (incl Mollo), Kédang (Lomblen island), Leti Islands (Leti, Moa, Lakor)