Linked Motifs

Motif	Name	Description
a12	Eclipses: monster’s attack	Some creature or creatures regularly (sunrise and sunset, summer and winter, lunar phases) or irregularly (solar and lunar eclipses, eschatological events) attack the luminaries or shade their light
a12f	Eclipses: the creditor	A creditor comes from time to time to the Sun or the Moon to claim back his money producing eclipses
a2	Several suns	In a certain time in the past three or more suns were on the sky simultaneously
a2a	The sun is a source of distructive heat	The world was or will be (almost) burned when several suns had (will) appear(ed) simultaneously; or the only sun was too hot (or bright)
a2c	Extra suns are children of the present one	Extra suns who almost burned or could burn the world are children of the present one
a3	Male sun and female moon	The Moon is female or bisexual, the Sun is male
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
b3d	Earth from worm’s excrements	A worm obtains the earth (from the underworld), it emerges from the worm's excrements, is extracted from inside of the worm
c5a	Bird-scouts	Birds or humans later changed to birds are sent to explore the earth (is it dry, are any survivals, to investigate why smoke rises to the sky, etc.) or to bring some soil to make the land that would be good for living
c6	Valuables brought from the lower world	Persons or animals dive or otherwise decend to the lower world to get a desired object and to bring it to earth (besides episodes in the fairytales, cf. motif k27x9)
c6e	The diver is a crustacean	A crustacean brings the earth from the bottom of the ocean or from the lower world
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
c8aa	Brother and sister beget the people	In the beginning of time or after the natural disaster brother and sister are the only human beings. They marry and the present day people are their descendents
c8b	Siblings change their looks and marry	In the beginning of time or after the world catastrophe brother and sister or mother and son are the only humans. They reject marriage or only the man does not want to marry his sister or mother. After their looks are changed (or only the sister or mother changes her face) they take each other for strangers, marry and beget the new race
c8d	The smallpox breaks tabou for incestuous marriage	Brother and sister avoid incestuous relations but marry after getting over the smallpox and because of this being unable to recognize each other
c8e	Survival in the floating bottle gourd	During the flood or in the beginning of times persons (usually brother abd sister) are floating in a big bottle gourd
c9	Warning about the coming flood	God, animal, some person warns one of the people about the catastrophy (usuallly the flood) that will become soon and in which most of the people must perish
e4	Creation from dirt of the skin	Supernatural person creates the entire earth, human or other beings of dirt taken from his or her skin, from under the nails, etc.
f16	Men and women: exchange of anatomical characteristics	Initially men possessed women's biological traits and vice versa (beard, menses, breasts, bearing children)
f9	A dangerous woman	For different reasons, sexual contact with a woman is deadly dangerous for a man
f9a	Vagina dentata	There are teeth, blades or sharp stones in woman’s genitals, vagina is the biting mouth. (Only texts that are believed to correspond to reality are considered but not anecdotes and jokes)
f9c	Snake in vagina	Snake (Pacific snake-eel in Polynesia) is in vagina; around the woman's thighs; vagina is a mouth of a snake; a woman with toothed vagina is associated with a snake; a snake crawls out of woman's mouth to bite off the man’s penis during the copulation
h7	The personified Death	Death (also Old Age, Disease, etc.) is a particular person not identical with the Master of the Dead. He kills people usually carrying away their souls
i107	Stars are nails	Stars are nails in the firmament or pegs, or stars are nailed to the sky
i110	Night sky agriculturalists	Constellation are interpreted as agricultural tools or people occupied with agricultural works (mostly ploughing and haymaking)
i135	The sky skin or cloth	The sky (Milky Way) is a skin of an animal or a cloth
i44	Chthonic serpent	Giant serpent lies on the perimeter of the earth or supports the earth
i85c1	The rain stored in the sky	In the sky there is a special container (vessel, skin, box, etc.) for storing the rain
i8e1	Four supports of the world	The sky or the earth rests upon four or five (cardinal points and the center) supports of any kind (poles, mountains, giants)
i8g	Atlas	One giant supports the earth or the sky
i8h	A man and a woman hold the earth	Two anthropomorphic beings, a male and a female, are in the underworld and support the earth
i8i	Original earth unstable	Originally the earth was unstable and swung, then it was fixed up
k118	The prohibited room	Master of the house allows person to feel himself (herself) free bit not to look into particular place. The person breaks prohibition
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
k65	Genii loci	Being thrown out, put into certain places, born by primeval couple some beings turn into spirits of particular loci
k65b	Humans and spirits	Spirits or unpleasant animals (reptiles, worms, etc.) are (often: concealed from the eyes of God or deformed) children or miscarriages of the same human couple or the same primeval ancestor who produced first human beings
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
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
m104	Make believe killing of kinsfolk	Person conceals his or her close relatives (children, mother, brothers) and tells another that he or she has killed them. Another believes and agrees to kill his or her own children, mother, etc.
m105a	Make believe killing of children	Person conceals her children and tells another one that she has killed them. Another person really kills her own

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Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Kond (Khond, Kondh; language is Kui, incl Kuttia, Konda-Dora), Koya; Pengo
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Bhuiya (now Aryans, originally Munda; Rahman 1955: 203), Baiga, Bhaina, Bhumia (subgroup of Baiga, incl Bharia, formerly Munda, now speak Indo-Aryan languages of neighboring groups)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Sora (Savara, Saora), Parenga
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Maria, Muria, and other South-Central Dravidians: Binjhwar, Baсор, Bhattra, Bom, Jhoria (=Jhodia), Gadaba (in Koraput, neighbors of Munda-speaking Gadaba), Duruwa (Parji), Mehtar; Pardhan
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Northern Munda of Kharwar branch: Birhor, Ho, Mundari, Kol, Asur (including Agaria, Kol, Birjhia), Bhumij
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Gondi (mostly Northern Gondi)
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Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Gutob (Gadaba)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 2 Tradition: Miao (Hmong) and Yao of Southern China

Similar traditions based on Adventures and Tricks motifs:
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Eastern Arunachal Pradesh: Abor (incl Minyong, Shimong, Padam, Pasi, Panggi), Apa Tani (Apatani), Bori, Bugun, Dafla (=Nyishi, Nisi, Nishing, incl Tagin), Gallong (=Galo, Adi), Mishmi
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Bhuiya (now Aryans, originally Munda; Rahman 1955: 203), Baiga, Bhaina, Bhumia (subgroup of Baiga, incl Bharia, formerly Munda, now speak Indo-Aryan languages of neighboring groups)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Karelians
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Uzbek
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Poles
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Russians: Vologda province (incl. Belozersk, Kirillov and Cherepovets districts of form. Novgorod Province)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Byelarusians
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Russians: Southern part of ethnic territory as in A.D. 1500 (Belgorod, Voronezh, Tambov, Penza, Lipetsk, Orel, Kursk, Bryansk provinces; in case of absence in other areas also Russians in Samara, Simbirsk and Saratov provinces)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Kara Kalpak
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Dards (Kalash, Kho, Kohistani, Shina, Pashai)