Linked Motifs

Motif	Name	Description
a38	The Sun caught in snare	Person prepares a snare, loop, noose, etc. to catch the Sun and/or the Sun is caught in a snare, tied by a rope, etc.
a38b	Mouse gnaws snare open	After the Sun is caught into snare only mouse, shrew or other small animal is able to cut it open
a38c	The Sun’s cloak	A boy or a girl has a cloak. The Sun spoils it or gives instead a better one
a38d	The Sun ruins cloak	Because the Sun does damage to a person or animal (spoils, burns his cloak, skin, etc.), the person or animal kills him or catches him in a snare
b101	Slashes on birch bark	Angry against the birch, person beats or cuts it, whence scratches and slashes on its bark
b16b	Wolverine makes the sea salty	The sea is alty because the wolverine or the fox bathed in it or urinated into it
c19	Acquisition of the sun	The Sun (the day light) that was absent, stolen or hidden appears (again)
i80	Thunder’s apprentice	Person who got into the place of a deity responsible for atmospheric phenomena breaks certain taboo or instructions producing excessive thunderstorm, rain, snowfall or wind
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)
m32a	Eating pieces of flesh that fall out	Person's intestines or pieces of flesh from his bottom part fall out. He eats them up taking for a good meat or fat
m69	Getting fast in an animal skull	Small animals or insects dance or feast inside a big animal skull or food is there. Person inserts his head into the skull and cannot take it out for a long time
m80	Quail scares trickster	Person insults a partridge-like bird, kills or injures her chickens. The partridge scares him, he falls, usually into a river or lake
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
m97a2	The blind person asks trees their names to find his was to the water	The blind person walks asking different trees their names and thus finds his way to the water

Similar traditions based on Cosmology and Etiology motifs:
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Eastern Swamy Cree
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Western Ojibwa (Chippewa)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Eastern Cree
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Naskapi
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Plains Cree
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Northern Ojibwa (=Severn Ojibwa, Sandy Lake Cree, Northern Saulteaux)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Menominee
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Algonquin, unspecified Algonkians of the Midwest (probably Old Algonquin)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Winnebago
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Montagnais

Similar traditions based on Adventures and Tricks motifs:
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): 6 Tradition: Western Ojibwa (Chippewa)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Eastern Ojibwa (Missisauga, Timagami and other groups in eastern Ontario)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Menominee
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Plains Ojibwa
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Thompson (Nlaka'pamux)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Winnebago
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Algonquin, unspecified Algonkians of the Midwest (probably Old Algonquin)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Eastern Swamy Cree
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Plains Cree