Linked Motifs

Motif	Name	Description
b2a	The female earth	The earth is a female person (alone or together with a male person); she is female being or associated with a woman
k1f	Conflict because of a woman	A man maroons another because of jealousy or because he plans to take hold of his wife
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
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
k35	False husband	An imposter pretends to be the hero to take his position and/or to marry or to violate his woman
k44	False mother rejected	A demonic or animal person steals a boy and pretends to be his real mother or father. The boy gets to know the truth, leaves the false parent
k44a	Frog pretends to be mother	An amphibian (frog, toad, rare newt) steals or finds a boy, lies him that she is his real mother
k68	Blood-clot defends his stepfather	An old man abused by another (often his son-in-law) brings home a clot of blood, from which a child is born. The blood-clot boy avenges the old man
k77a	Small objects and animals defeat the ogre	Small objects and animals (rare: animals alone but including those who really are harmless) revenge on a powerful enemy making attack on him in succession (usually they hide in his or her house); the enemy is badly injured, runs away or dies
l110	The devourer	A demonic being swallows a multitude of people and animals. When it is killed and cut open, the swallowed ones come out alive or are revived
l17b	Two faces	Person or creature has another face (another mouth) on the back of his (her, its) head
l65	Demonic baby	A baby or small child proves to be a demon, devours or injures people
l70	Fruit falls and kills	Person or animal is killed or injured with a heavy object dropped from a tree (or rock, etc.). The person or the animal knows that the objects will fall but has falls ideas about its character and weight
m23	Mock plea	Person or creature pretends to be afraid of a particular sort of treatment that really cannot do him any harm
m24	Turtle’s war party	Turtle goes to war and/or is captured by enemies
m29k	The turtle (tortoise, toad, frog) wins thanks to his smartness	Being smart and persistent, the turtle (toad, frog) overcomes strong adversaries
m48	Trickster turns into buffalo	Trickster asks an animal to transform him but breaks condition of transformation and acquires his original guise. Usually he asks a big horned animal (buffalo, elk) to turn him into buffalo (elk) too. Animal charges, trickster is scared. Next time he remains on the place, turns into buffalo but trying to transform the same way another person, turns back into his own self
m51	Meat in a tree	One of two animal-persons kills game. In the absence of the stronger one, the weaker one hides the meat to eat it alone later
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
m53c	Red eyes	Trickster suggests water fowl to dance around him with their eyes shut, kills them one by one. He warns that eyes of a bird who would open them become red. In some versions, the bird who opened its eyes got them really red
m65	Trickster jammed, meat stolen	Trickster cooks meat that he got by deception but is unexpectedly jammed between trees or stuck to a stone. An animal (usually fox, wolf or coyote) steals all the meat
m65b	The lost quarry	Person kills game (usually by deception), gets to see how thieves carry it away but is unable to intervene
m86	Rock punishes trickster	Rock chases or otherwise punishes person who has offended it (usually deceived it or has taken objects that belong to Rock)

Similar traditions based on Cosmology and Etiology motifs:
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Wichita; Spiro Mound iconography
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Early Russian written sources
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Omaha, Ponca
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Ancient Greece
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Duala (Douala), Basa (Basaá), Kwiri (Kweli), Isubu
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Sauk (Sak, Mesquakie), Fox, Kickapoo
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Yankton/Yanktonai
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Cheyenne
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Garo (Atchik), Kachari (Bodo, incl. Lalung), Dimasa, Tripuri, Riang (of Tripura), Khami, Riga, Mori
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 2 Tradition: Chinantec, Mazatec

Similar traditions based on Adventures and Tricks motifs:
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 7 Tradition: Assiniboine
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 7 Tradition: Pawnee
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 6 Tradition: Kutenai
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: Iowa
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Teton (incl Oglala)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Coeur D'Alene, Kalispel (Pend d'Oreille; incl Spokane)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Osage
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Menominee
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Blackfoot