Linked Motifs

Motif	Name	Description
a5	The Sun and the Moon are males	The Moon is male, the Sun is also male or (much more rare) asexual
b29	Eschatological feast	People turn into animals, birds or stones at a feast, after the feast, after performing a ritual or after a victory over dangerous enemy
e23	Fleas make person move	A handful of fleas or lice is thrown into people or into particular person. It was the only way to make him, her or them move and live
e37	Peoples from sticks	Creator takes many small sticks, transforms them into people of both sexes and all ages
f10	Vaginal teeth knocked out	Woman has another toothed mouth (usually in vagina) or biting animals in vagina. Man inserts there a stone, bone, stick, etc. breaking or knocking out the teeth or extracting from there dangerous animals
f47b	New people on the old place	To create the new people (new women) instead of those who were destructed, person puts down in every empty hut (hearth, hammock) something (feathers, pieces of flesh) from which new people (new women) emerge
f63	Trickster poses as woman and marries man	A male person turns into woman and marries a man. He is either unmasked or abandons his "husband" by his own will
f9	A dangerous woman	For different reasons, sexual contact with a woman is deadly dangerous for a man
h24	Container opened too early	Container with valuables or with dangerous creatures is opened (before time). Its content goes out of control or disappear
i65	Milky Way of the dead	Milky Way is the path over which souls travel to the beyond or a path of the funeral procession
i82b	Venus is female	Morning and/or Evening Star is a female personage
j1	The vengeful heroes	Persons avenge the death of their father, mother or other relatives who are one (rare two) generations older than they
j30	Parents’ remains	Before the hero destroys the antagonists or escapes from them, he finds or receives the remains or possessions that belonged to the antagonists' victim
j31	Father’s weapon	A young hero obtains and uses weapons or other powerful objects which belonged to his murdered father
j4	Revenge for the death of the male relatives	Heroes avenge the murder or captivity of the male relatives: (grand)father, uncles, or the elder relatives in general, the loss of the males being the most traumatic
j52a	Bear as antagonist	A bear-person (usually Bear-woman) kills her or his female companion who is associated with a weaker animal – not a predator or a weaker predator. The victim's children revenge on the antagonist killing her own children and / or run away and escape
j53	The fawns and the cubs	Children of the ungulate animal person (deer, doe, antelope) become the enemies of a predator or bigger ungulate animal person. They kill her (him) and (or) successively escape from her (him)
j53c	One of two female companions kills another	Two co-wives of female companions live together, both have children. Once when they go to work outdoors (usually to gather wild plants), one of them kills and devours another. The victim's children escape
k11a	Feathers turn into birds or men	Feathers of (giant) bird turn into different present day birds (in their plumage) or into the men
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
k27p	Antagonist mourns loss of his helpers	The antagonist sends the hero to the place where he is attacked by dangerous creatures. The hero kills them and brings to the antagonist. The creatures are the antagonist's relatives, pets, or helpers, therefore he or she mourns their death or revives them
k27s	Contest: a race	Contest: a race
k27y	To get material for making bow and arrows	Hero is sent or sets off by his own will to get two or more different materials needed for making bow and arrows (wood or reed for shafts, feathers, tendons for string, flint for points, paint to paint the shafts, gum to stick points to the shafts)
k28	Father or uncle is rival and enemy	Maternal uncle or father (or grandfather if he replaces father who is not mentioned) of the young man is his rival or enemy and tries to kill him
k29a	Surviving in a fire	Hero demonstrates his supernatural abilities remaining alive in a burning hot chamber, stove, bonfire, among burning vegetation
k4	The bird nester	Person climbs up a tree or rock or descends to a cave to get eggs or nestlings from the bird's nest. Another person remains on the ground. They get into conflict and/or the first person is unable to get back to the ground
l36	Woman attacks man who climbs a tree	When a man climbs a tree (escaping from persecutor; to get bird nestlings, honey, fruits, etc.), his wife (rare: her brother) kills, injures him or turns into demonic creature who pursues him
m22	Helpful stock	A long-necked bird living near water (stork, heron, bittern, swan) saves person from dangerous pursuer
m29b	Trickster-fox, jackal or coyote	In episodes related to deception, absurd, obscene or anti-social behavior the protagonist is fox, jackal or coyote
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
m89	Melted wax	Person dies or is humiliated after some object that he or she made of wax, resin, excrements and/or took for something worthy are melted down

Similar traditions based on Cosmology and Etiology motifs:
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 7 Tradition: Maidu, Nisenan, Konkov
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 7 Tradition: Pomo
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 6 Tradition: Pawnee
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 6 Tradition: Northern Paiute (=Paviotso)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Guajiro
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Ute
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Yurok
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Thompson (Nlaka'pamux)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Wintu, Patwin, Nomlaki
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Sierra Miwok

Similar traditions based on Adventures and Tricks motifs:
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 7 Tradition: Menominee
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 6 Tradition: Klamath, Modoc
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 6 Tradition: Wintu, Patwin, Nomlaki
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 6 Tradition: Mataco
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 6 Tradition: Pomo
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Maidu, Nisenan, Konkov
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Northern Paiute (=Paviotso)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Wailaki, Mattole, Lassik, Sinkyone, Cahto
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Mono (Monache)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Lower Chehalis, Upper Chehalis, (Lower) Cowlitz