Linked Motifs

Motif	Name	Description
b33a	Person dies of cold in the spring	When it becomes warm, a person or animal (bird) decides that the winter is over (most often an old woman goes to graze her animals) but dies of cold or the animals that had been deiven to the pasture die
b33d	The old woman of winter	Old woman is incarnation of winter, is associated with snow, or there are several cold days between winter and spring (or fall) associated with a certain old woman
h54	The eyelids of Viy	Eyelids (eyelashes, eyebrows) of personage hang long down over his eyes. To make the eyes widely opened, the eyelids (eyelashes, eyebrows) should be propped up with poles, folks, sticks, etc. (rare: cut off)
i27c	The four-eyed dog	Dogs having spots over the eyes are called the four-eyed and believed to have special properties (e.g. to see ghosts)
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
k27n	Difficult tasks of the in-laws	A man must fulfill difficult tasks (to win competition) to receive the permission for a marriage
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
k27x3	The man persecuted because of his beautiful bride	A powerful person coverts a beautiful bride or wife of a man and gives him impossible tasks to get rid of him
k29d	The drunk elephants	When water in a spring is replaced with alcohol, honey, etc. or bottles of alcohol seem to be left without supervison, a creature of person becomes drunk and is caught
k38d	Monster blocks waters	A monster blocks sources of water (or sends floods) and usually gives some (promises not to send floods) in exchange for human victims or valuables. Hero kills the monster
k38e4	Palace of gold and silver bricks	A palace (castle, crypt, church, bridge) made of gold and silver modules (usually bricks, more rare planks) is mentioned in narratives (in different context)
k38f	The dragon-slayer	A reptile monster demands humans (usually virgins) as a sacrifice or abducts a girl or closes sources of water. Hero kills him. Monster’s victims do not play an active part in the plot
k58	Construction of watercause	Person builds a watercourse or digs a well as a condition of marriage. (Usually the woman breaks her promise to marry the winner and she or her bridegroom die)
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)
k99b	Eloping with the wrong man	At night a girl’s lover has to carry her away but falls asleep or is late. She is carried away by another man who happened to be on the place
l125	Demonic wife recognized	A man marries a beauty but catches her in a situation when her not human nature is revealed. After this their marriage breaks down
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
l64	Removable head	Person removes part of his or her body (head, scalp, lungs) and then puts it back
m28	Icarus (failed attempt to fly on artificial wings)	Acquiring possibility to fly, person ultimately falls to the ground or remains in a faraway place being unable to fly any more
m75b	Hero inside carcass	A man hides in a skin or carcass of a big animal. A bird carries it to its nest without knowing that the man is inside
m75c	Treasure on mountain top	A man sends another one to top of a mountain or a tree to obtain treasure for him. To go back is impossible but the man survives
m84	Revived from bones	Person, animal, fish or (rare) a fruit is eaten up and then revived, usually after all bones (all seeds) being put together
m84a	Goat resuscitated	Supernatural beings kill and eat an animal and then put all the bones together (in the animal's skin). After the feast the animal becomes whole (and usually revives)
n10	The transparent body	A woman (rare: a man) with transparent body is described. This transparence is an evidence of the beauty

Similar traditions based on Cosmology and Etiology motifs:
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 6 Tradition: Occitanie (southern France): Limousin, Auvergne, Provence, Aquitaine, Albret, Gers, Aveyron (Rouerge), Armagnac, Landes, Gascogne, Vivarés, Roussillon, Pyrénées, Bearne, Guyenne, Bigorre, Ain, Hautes Alpes, Ariège, Vienne, Aude, French part of Swiss
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 6 Tradition: Romanians, Moldavians, Aromanians
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 6 Tradition: Wales
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 6 Tradition: Rushani, Shughni, Khufi, Bartangi
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Italians: Northwest (Mentona, Ticino, Valle-d’Aosta, Piemont, Liguria, Lombardia, Emilia–Romagna)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Bulgarians
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Ireland
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Hungarians
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Chuvash
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Bashkirs

Similar traditions based on Adventures and Tricks motifs:
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 7 Tradition: Armenians
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 6 Tradition: Uzbek
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 6 Tradition: Greeks (modern)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 6 Tradition: Azeris (Azerbaijanis)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 6 Tradition: Persians
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 6 Tradition: Tajik
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Ukrainians: Eastern dialects
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Anatolia Turks
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Maltese
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Kirghiz