Linked Motifs

Motif	Name	Description
a3	Male sun and female moon	The Moon is female or bisexual, the Sun is male
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)
a32d	Man in the Moon	Human being or imprint of human being is seen in the moon
a32e	Person with an object in hands	Person who holds some object in his or her hands is seen in the moon (rare: in the sun)
a32h	The Moon plant	A tree or bush is seen in the moon
a44	Moon the protector	A person pursued by an enemy or tyrannized by others asks the Moon to take her or him to the sky. The request is granted and the person is now seen in the Moon
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
b2c	The earth is a human body, is born by the woman	The earth, elements of the landscape or the fertile soil are the transformed body of a person or the earth (islands) were born by a woman
b2d	Marriage of the sky and the earth	The male Sky (the Sun, the Thunder, the creator of the sky) marries the female Earth (or its female creator) or the female Sky marries the male Earth
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
b74b	The marriage of the owl and the Moon	The (proposed) marriage of the owl and the Moon broke up or has never been realized
c12b	People descend from a dog	In the beginning of time or after the flood man marries a bitch. Present people descend from them.
c25b	A spinner in the Moon	In the sky, on the Moon (rare: on the Sun), i.e. somewhere outside of our world certain person is spinning, weaving, plaiting, or embroidering
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
c8c	Mother and son produce people	After the world cataclysm, in the beginning of time or coming to a new land a woman marries her son and produce people
e5c	People from the sky	The first people or first anthropomorphic divine beings descend to earth from the sky.
f35	Feeding with the paramour’s meat	Person feeds another with the meat of his or her sexual partner who cooks or eats it without knowing whose meat it is
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
f64a	Describes future husband	Going away or pretending to die, a person bids his or her relative to marry another person who resembles him (her) or has some special traits; or he describes a man who should be met as a dear guest; person comes himself unrecognized and is taken for one whom he had described
f64b	Incestuous woman	A woman pretends to be a stranger to have sexual relations with her (grand)son, daughter or brother
f86	Conditional signal	Person summons with a certain signal a non-human being (usually his or her sexual partner or his or her protégé). Another person spies, uses the same signal or pronounces the same words and kills the being who comes to him (or uses this being sexually himself)
f86a	An eaten up pet	Person take care for a fish, crab or other small creature. Another person spies on him or her, kills the pet and eats it up or try to do it
g20	Woman turns into plants	Food crops emerge from remains of a woman or girl
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)
h49	Pet defends master’s child	A dog or other animal kills dangerous creature who was going to attack the child. The master thinks that the assailant was the pet and kills it
i110	Night sky agriculturalists	Constellation are interpreted as agricultural tools or people occupied with agricultural works (mostly ploughing and haymaking)
i110a	The star plough	Orion (rare: other constellation) is a plough
i124	Ursa major is a boat	Ursa major is a boat
i28	Animals in the underworld	Game animals live inside a mountain, in a cave or in the underworld where they often look like humans and have a master
i43a	The celestial monster	Giant reptilian monster (serpent, more rare fish, chain of fish) extends in the sky and/or supports the sky being associated with Milky Way or the rainbow
i43b	Milky Way is a serpent or fish	Milky Way is a reptile, fish, or chain of fish
j47	Pursuer falls from height	Person ascends to the sky (rare: descends from the sky; ascends the cliff) by a rope, a ladder, etc. Another person tries to follow him or her but the rope (the ladder) is broken or severed
k103a	Tree raises its branches	A plant (tree, vine, lotus) that has grown up rapidly does not let anybody besides the hero or the heroine to climb it or to pick its fruits (flowers)
k25	Magic wife	A man consciously marries a woman related to the non-human world
k33	Drowned woman remains alive	When a young woman is pushed into the water by her rival, she drowns or loses her human guise but ultimately is returned to the people, Cf. motif k32n
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
l103	Obstacle flight (Atalanta type)	Treasure, or the like, is thrown back to tempt pursuer to delay
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
m46d	Child cries for a toy	A small child cries and becomes satisfied only when he gets a particular object to play with. This object is of high value and is hidden in the house. As soon as the object is given to him, the child or a person related to him carry it away
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.
m90a4	The tree of gems	A tree which has gems or adornments instead of fruits is described; particular parts of the tree are made of different metals or precious stones

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Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Bali, Lombok
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Tepehua, Totonac
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Romanians, Moldavians, Aromanians
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Sayula Popoluca (=Veracruz Mixe), Sierra Popoluca, Veracruz Zoque
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Slovenians
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Sicuani
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Bribri, Cabecar, Térraba; Chiriqui (AD 800-1500) iconography
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Greeks (modern)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Bulgarians

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Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 6 Tradition: Toraja (Toradja), To Mori, Barée (=Eastern Toraja)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Minahasa (incl. Tondano, Tentemboan), Bantik
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Khmer
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Italians: Central (Toscana, Maremma, Umbria, Marche, San-Marino, Lazio)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Udeghe
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Western Ojibwa (Chippewa)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Malay; Temuan (incl Mantra or Mentra), Jakun (Moken)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Ukrainians: Eastern dialects
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Tagish
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Bali, Lombok