Linked Motifs

Motif	Name	Description
b37	Creatures are made appear as they are now	Person decorates different birds (rare: fish), share fat between anomals. Since then, the corresponding species acquire present characteristics
b38e	Tail base of the loon	Person kicks loon or other water bird. Since then this bird has flat tail base and it walks on dry land with difficulty
b96	The antagonist turns into sturgent	The heroe's enemy turns into a big fish (usually a sturgent) or (rare) a water mammal that are fished or hunted by people
f30	Snake paramour	A woman or a girl takes a snake, an eel (i.e. Pacific snake-eel), a lizard, or a worm for husband or paramour. People kill or badly injure him, the woman and/or her progeny or the woman herself is transformed into snake. Cf. motif k76b: the snake-husband becomes and remains a handsome man
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)
h53	Wolf is the master of the dead	Wolf takes part in creation and/or is a brother of the creator who wins demons of the lower world. Wolf is the first person who died and/or becomes the master of the dead
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
i3	Weapon of Thunder	The lightning (and thunder) is (produced with) an object (axe, sword, mirror, belt, stones, skin, etc.) in hands of anthropomorphic being
j46	Enemy drowns	Antagonist perishes falling into the water or trying to cross a water body
k102a2	Conflict between mother and son	Mother tries to kill her son (children) because he interferes with her love affair
k125	House utensil betrays its master	An enemy asks house utensils or personal objects where their master hid himself or herself or what direction he or she ran away. One of the objects, not treated by the master in a proper way, betrays him or her
l5c	Rolling head is a dangerous monster	Rolling head is a dangerous mobster (pursues celestial bodies, people etc.)
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
l86	Demonic mother pursues her children	A woman turns into demon and pursues her children
m162b	Sour sap into the bear’s eyes	Person makes believe to rub sour berries into his eyes. Another (always a bear) suggests to rub the same sap into his eyes and is blinded. The person kills him
m29b2	The bear is a failure/enemy	Because of its stupidity or unsocial behavior, the bear suffers a reverse, is injured or dies
m41	The eye-juggler	Person plays throwing his eyes or (Alaska Athabascans) his tooth up or away. Eyes or tooth first come back to eye sockets or mouth but eventually are lost
m42	Eyes: taken out of orbits and lost	Person loses his eyes because of his playfulness or negligence. He makes new eyes of some substance or/and takes eyes of another person
m42b	Eyes of gum	Person loses his eyes, makes new ones of gum and is able to see again (though usually not well)
m53	Hoodwinked dancers	Person invites birds or animals (usually geese and ducks) to dance or stand around him and concentrate their attention on some activity (usually to dance with their eyes shut), kills them, usually one by one. Or (rare) he dances himself with his eyes shut and then kills water fowl who gather around him
m53b	Bag with songs	Trickster pretends to have songs in his bag
m97	The blind is directed by trees	Person is lost or becomes blind. He walks asking different trees their names and makes decisions according to their answers reaching ultimately his destination
m97a1	The blind person asks trees their names to get the new eyes	The blind person walks asking different trees their names till he finds one that is needed to make (receive) the new eyes

Similar traditions based on Cosmology and Etiology motifs:
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 8 Tradition: Western Ojibwa (Chippewa)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 7 Tradition: Plains Cree
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 6 Tradition: Northern Ojibwa (=Severn Ojibwa, Sandy Lake Cree, Northern Saulteaux)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 6 Tradition: Eastern Ojibwa (Missisauga, Timagami and other groups in eastern Ontario)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 6 Tradition: Blackfoot
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 6 Tradition: Chipewyan (Dëne Sųłıné)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Pawnee
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Amahuaca, Cashinahua, Sharanahua, Yaminahua, Yawanahua, Capanahua)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Sauk (Sak, Mesquakie), Fox, Kickapoo
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Gwich'in (Kutchin, Loucheux)

Similar traditions based on Adventures and Tricks motifs:
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 9 Tradition: Plains Cree
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 7 Tradition: Western Swampy Cree (incl. Rock Cree)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 7 Tradition: Gwich'in (Kutchin, Loucheux)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Carrier
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Chipewyan (Dëne Sųłıné)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Kutenai
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Kiowa
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Gros Ventre
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Okanagon, Sanpoil
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Pawnee