Linked Motifs

Motif	Name	Description
a12	Eclipses: monster’s attack	Some creature or creatures regularly (sunrise and sunset, summer and winter, lunar phases) or irregularly (solar and lunar eclipses, eschatological events) attack the luminaries or shade their light
a12b	Eclipses: a frog or toad	During an eclipse or at the sunset the Sun or the Moon are attacked by a frog or toad
a12c	Eclipses: reptiles and fish	During an eclipse or at the sunset the Sun or the Moon are attacked by a reptile (a snake, a lizard, a dragon, a crocodile) or a fish
a32	Figure on lunar disc	A figure or an imprint of some being or object are seen in the Moon. (For statistical analysis motifs A32A – A32J are also included into A32)
a32b	The Moon toad	Frog or toad are seen in the moon or the Moon is associated with them
a4	Female sun	The Sun is female, the Moon is male or (more rare) also female
a5	The Sun and the Moon are males	The Moon is male, the Sun is also male or (much more rare) asexual
b3a	Primeval waters	Water is the original element, the dry earth appears later
b3b	Earth grows big	Original earth was small and later increased in size or the fertile soil grew from a small amount of original substance
b44a	Council on seasons: units of time	Animals (Melanesia: persons) discuss the number of discrete units of time that should be in a certain calendar period or in the night
b44c	Should warmth and light exist?	It is discussed if darkness or light, cold or warm periods should exist
b44e	Dispute of ancestors	The primeval ancestors (usually birds and animals) participate in discussion concerning the desired predominance or wamth/light or cold/darkness, number of the units of time in a tempoi cycle, etc.
c2	Deluge and conflagration combined	Inhabitans of the Middle World are (partly) destroyed (or will be destoyed) once by fire or draught, another time by a flood or the world is destroyed with a flood of fire or boiling water
d4a	Theft of fire	Fire is stolen from its original owner or brought back to the people from somebody who had stolen it before
d4e1	The dog and the fire	Dog obtains fire, daylight or the Sun or steals them
d5	Woman as the owner of the fire	Female person is the owner or inventor (but not the personification) of the fire
e3	New people from bones	After destruction of previous world, new people (rare: new earth) are made from the bones of the perished race
f51	The clandestine lover	Person who conceals his or her identity comes to his or her lover (at night). Next time, the lover puts a mark on the stranger's face, body or clothes doing this intentionally (to recognize him or her) or by chance (that leads to the identification)
f51a	Aggressive sister	When incest relations with her brother come to light, the sister openly claims her brother for a husband, turns into monster, kills people
h1b	Death of a neighbor’s child	Person does something that makes death inevitable because the death of a child or a woman beloved by another person is indifferent or desirable for him or her
h34a	Controversy over conditions of life	Person has a series of suggestions how to make the world easy for living and free of hard work and death. His companion successively rejects them. Their dialogue forever defines conditions of human life
h5	People and snakes	Reptiles or invertebrates possess the medicine of immortality; are contrasted with men as immortal with mortals and/or are responsible for originating of death; or a snake's bite inflicts the first death
i100	The Pleiades are girls	The Pleiades are a group of girls or women (with children)
i100b	The Pleiades are a group of people	The Pleiades are any people (of any ages and sex, combined data of i99-i100a)
i45b	Not to point at the rainbow	It to point at the rainbow, pointing finger or entire arm will rot, wither or become crooked
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
k27e	Eating or drinking contest	Person or animal must eat (drink) enormous quantity of food (beverage) or eat or drink poisonous beverage or food
k27s	Contest: a race	Contest: a race
k32	The false wife	An ugly, old, lazy, etc. woman or (in Chaco) a male trickster comes to man under disguise of his wife or bride who is driven out, confined to the underworld, killed, etc.
k42	Bird-woman kills men (The loon-woman)	Bird-woman is energetically searching a man whom she likes, takes him by force for her husband. Turning into a monster, she kills men but is ultimately destroyed

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Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 6 Tradition: Lkungen (Straits; including Samish, Songish, Sooke, Lummi), Klallam
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Yana
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Klamath, Modoc
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Lower Chehalis, Upper Chehalis, (Lower) Cowlitz
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Upper Chinook: Wasco, Wishram, Clackamas, Kathlamet
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Assiniboine
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Western Shoshone, Gosiute
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Achomavi
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Western Ojibwa (Chippewa)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Thompson (Nlaka'pamux)

Similar traditions based on Adventures and Tricks motifs:
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Lithuanians
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Serbs, Monte Negro,
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Romanians, Moldavians, Aromanians
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Swedes
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Latvians
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Hungarians
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Bretagne
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Basques
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Maltese
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Italians: Northwest (Mentona, Ticino, Valle-d’Aosta, Piemont, Liguria, Lombardia, Emilia–Romagna)