Linked Motifs

Motif	Name	Description
b26	Man joins wild animals	Person who follows the wild animals turns into one of them or into their master
c16	Processed objects turn into animals	Against person's will, butchered, dried or cooked meat, tanned hides, etc. turn back into animals or fish and escape.
c16a	The offended mistress of animals	Mistress of animals or fish revives them after being offended
d4a	Theft of fire	Fire is stolen from its original owner or brought back to the people from somebody who had stolen it before
d4n	Person weeps asking for summer	A boy or (among the Kutenai) a woman weeps, asking for an element that is absent, i.e. for summer, fire, or rain
d8	Fire and a predator animal	Fire or summer is stolen from a big predator: a lion (in Africa), a tiger (in Asia), a bear (in Siberia and North America) or a jaguar (in South America)
e10	Pets turn into children	A lonely woman or married couple surprises childred who live nearby in guise of animals (plants, objects). After this the children preserve their human guise
e11	The burned skin	Magic person reveals his true nature and/or remains with the real people after the object responsible for preserving the non-human appearance (usually an animal skin) is destroyed (usually burned)
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
g1	A kidnapped child	Valuables (earth, soil, sun, crops, fire, sacred knowledge, hunting luck) are got or returned when son or daughter is stolen from his or her parent
h32a	Superfertility lost: a maltreated wife	Supernatural woman comes to live with humans. Thanks to that, food becomes easily available. She is maltreated, goes away, temporal superfertility is lost forever
i1	The thunderbirds	Creatures that produce rain and/or thunderstorms are birds or anthropomorphic beings with wings; or (rare) some or all birds are connected with thunder, lightning or rain though Thunder is not a bird
i2	Lightning from eyes	Lightning emerges from eyes or mouth of the being who is thought to produce thunderstorms
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
i39	Rainbow road or bridge	Rainbow is a road, a bridge or a ladder
i72	Stars are people	Stars are people, ghosts, anthropomorphic beings (interpretations of unique star objects like Venus or Polaris as persons not considered)
i85c	Containers with weather	A person rises to the sky and finds there containers with different (two or more) types of precipitations, atmospheric phenomena, seasons and/or celestial bodies
i85c1	The rain stored in the sky	In the sky there is a special container (vessel, skin, box, etc.) for storing the rain
j13	Two sisters	Two sisters (if more, only two play a significant role in the plot) travel and meet an unpleasant suitor or get to an ogre
k19b	Star-husband	A woman maries a star-man
k19e	Wolverine under a tree	When a woman or two sisters descend from sky back to earth, they get to the top of a tree. Some animals who walk by cannot help them or do not want to help. Wolverine gets women down because he plans to marry them but they escape from him
k19g	Two stars of different color and brightness	Two stars are men, an old and a young ones. They look different as about their color or brightness but these characteristics do not correlate (the bright star can prove to be an old man and vice versa. Usually two girls wish these stars for husbands and express different preferences (one prefers bright blue star, another wants small and red one, etc.)
k20	Wish for star-husband or wife realized	A human person admires a star or (rare) the Moon in the sky, expresses desire to marry it or (rare) to get a star-object. Star descends to him or to her or takes him or her to the sky
k25	Magic wife	A man consciously marries a woman related to the non-human world
k26	A hole in the firmament	Finding a hole in the ground or making it, person gets to see below another world. Usually the earth is seen from the sky
k47a	A woman and a dog	After having sexual contact with a dog, a woman gives birth to his children. The puppies turn into humans and usually become ancestors of particular groups of people
k54	Two giants	A man meets a dangerous giant (or serpent) who proves to be friendly to him. When another giant fights with the first one, the man helps his friend
k54a	Cut tendons	A man and a friendly giant live together. The friendly giant fights with another one and asks the man for help. This help proves to be crucial because the man badly injures a foot of another giant
l38	Demon’s trap	A demon puts a trap to catch people, hero gets into it
l42	Hero carried to ogre’s home	An ogre or ogress catches a person and brings him to his or her home where he or she plans to cook and eat him. The hero escapes
l72	The obstacle flight	Running away from a dangerous being, person throws small objects behind him or her which turn into mighty obstacles on the way of the pursuer
l72f	Obstacle flight: the thrown entrails	Running away from a dangerous being, person throws entrails or contents of the stomach of an animal creating an obstacle on the way of the pursuer
m21	A protector hides fugitives	The protagonist pursued by an enemy comes across a person, an animal or an object to help him and receives help
m29f	Wolverine is a failure	Because of its stupidity and unsocial behavior, the wolverine suffers a reverse, is injured or dies
m46	The false baby	Planning to get or to return valuables, person turns into baby or in a small objects that has power to impregnate a woman. The picked up or the born baby steals the valuables and acquires his real guise (including cases according to which the girl herself is the desired valuable)

Similar traditions based on Cosmology and Etiology motifs:
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 7 Tradition: Tahltan
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 6 Tradition: Tlingit
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Carrier
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Tsimshian
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Tagish
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Bella Coola (Nuxalk)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Sechelt (incl Sisiatl), Squamish, Halcomelem
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Chipewyan (Dëne Sųłıné)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Tundra Nenets
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Heiltsuk (Bellabella), Oowekeeno

Similar traditions based on Adventures and Tricks motifs:
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 10 Tradition: Tsetsaut
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 7 Tradition: Gwich'in (Kutchin, Loucheux)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 6 Tradition: Micmac
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 6 Tradition: Upper Tanana (Nebesna)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Kaska
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Tlingit
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Western Ojibwa (Chippewa)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Tagish
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Lillooet
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Western Sahaptin (Upper Cowlitz, Klikitat, Tenino, Umatilla, Yakima, Wallawalla)