Linked Motifs

Motif	Name	Description
i45b	Not to point at the rainbow	It to point at the rainbow, pointing finger or entire arm will rot, wither or become crooked
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
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
k74	Hero, his companions and a dwarf	The hero and his companion or companions live together. Every morning one stays at home while another or others go to hunt, etc. A demonic person comes, eats up all the food and beats the cook. Or the man who remained at home comes to the demon himself in search of fire and is maltreated by him. The hero kills or neutralizes the demon
k77a	Small objects and animals defeat the ogre	Small objects and animals (rare: animals alone but including those who really are harmless) revenge on a powerful enemy making attack on him in succession (usually they hide in his or her house); the enemy is badly injured, runs away or dies
k77c	Ones who hide in a house frighten dangerous enemy	Objects and/or domestic animals live in a house. When dangerous enemy comes, they attack him, he dies or escapes (all texts with K77A and K77B included)
k8c	Jonah: swallowed by terrestrial animal	Person gets into the belly of ground animal or bird. He kills it from the inside and/or returns to earth by himself (i.e. not extracted by other people)
k99a	The father will humble himself before the son	A lad or a girl (often after having a prophetic dream) claims that he (she) will achieve extraordinary social position (usually that his or her parents, brothers, sisters will demonstrate signs of high respect to him or her). The lad (girl) is expelled out of the family but the prophecy is fulfilled
m100	Sleep at the edge of a cliff	Animal persons lie to sleep at the edge of a bluff or cliff. At night one of them tells another (others) to move a little, the companion (companions) falls down and dies
m131	Biting tree-root	A stronger (animal)-person gets to seize a leg or tail of a weaker one. To get free the weaker one pretends that his pursuer got hold of a tree root, and the pursuer lets his enemy free
m143	Fox in a well	Getting into a well or pit and being unable to climb out animal person tricks another to descend and thanks to this gets out while the second person remains below
m144	The wasp nest as king’s drum	One animal person gets to convince another that dangerous or disgusting objects are attractive and delicious (a wasp nest is a drum, a snake is a girdle, a heap of dung is a delicacy, etc.)
m151	Hello, house!	Dangerous animal pretends to be an inanimate object, dead or absent. The potential victim sais aloud that the real dead (object, place) has to act in a particular way or to say particular words. The animal does accordingly betraying himself.
m156	The ungrateful one returned to captivity	An (animal) person saves a dangerous animal from a snare or the like. The saved one is going to kill his savior but the third person saves the second (usually tricks the first one to captivity again)
m156a	Objects that give the answers	Dangerous animal seeks to kill a person or other animal who rescued it from captivity. The dangerous animal and its victim agree to ask somebody else if a good deed should be repayed with a bad one. Inanimate objects are among those who answer to this question
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
m187	Snail is a participant of the race	A snail (other mollusk, trepang, etc.) participates in the race and wins
m29v	The duiker (mouse-deer) wins thanks to his smartness	Being smart and witty, a small ungulate overcomes strong adversaries. The hero is a duiker, a mouse-deer or other small even-toed ungulates that are not very close biologically but look similar. In some publications on African folklore it is difficult to say what species is meant in particular case
m29w2	The tiger is a failure	Because of its stupidity and unsocial behavior, the tiger suffers a reverse, is injured or dies
m3	Chain of animals	Person crosses a water or air space along the chain of many animals, birds or fish
m3a	Counting water animals	Animal who does not swim well suggests animals who live in water to count their number. For this, they should make a chain and he would run along it. It is but a trick to cross a body of water
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
m5d	The squirrel the creeping fish	The squirrel and the creeping fish are smart and get medicines for each other

Similar traditions based on Cosmology and Etiology motifs:
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Lampung (Lampong); South Sumatra Malays (incl. Bengkulu)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Sundanese
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Rejang
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Japanese folklore outside of Ryukyu
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Khmer
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Thai of Thailand
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: Minahasa (incl. Tondano, Tentemboan), Bantik
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Kuki, Chiru, Falam (Hallam), Chin (Meitei =Manipuri, Khami, =Kumi), Lakher, Mizo (Lushei), Anal, Pawi (Lai), Purum, Koireng, Milhiem, Kolhen, Mru
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Chinese folklore: Anhui, Jiangxi and data without precise provinience (incl Hakka, Min Dong)

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: Malay; Temuan (incl Mantra or Mentra), Jakun (Moken)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Minahasa (incl. Tondano, Tentemboan), Bantik
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Sangir Islands
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Kazakh
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Yavanese, Kalang, Madura
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: Sundanese
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Aceh (Acheh)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Kachin (Jingpho), Chak, Maru