Linked Motifs

Motif	Name	Description
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)
a32d	Man in the Moon	Human being or imprint of human being is seen in the moon
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
b50	Whose blood is sweeter?	An insect feeds on human blood (flesh). Dangerous person asks it where it had sucked blood or whose blood (flesh) is the most delicious. Usually the insect lies or cannot answer (its tongue is cut off) and thanks to this dangerous person attacks certain plants or animals and not people
b51	Mosquito and thunder	Thanks to intentional misinformation, Thunder did not get know that bloodsucking insect has sucked human blood
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
c6	Valuables brought from the lower world	Persons or animals dive or otherwise decend to the lower world to get a desired object and to bring it to earth (besides episodes in the fairytales, cf. motif k27x9)
c6b	The diver is muskrat (otter, beaver)	A muskrat (more rare beaver or otter) brings the desired object from under the water
c6d	The aquisition of the earth from the lower world	The dry land (the earth) grows from a small amount of solid substance (sand, clay, dirt and the like) brought from the lower world (usually from the bottom of the ocean)
i45a	Not to point at the Moon or a star	Person who points at the Moon or a star or looks intently at them will get sick or die or his pointing finger will rot or wither
i45b	Not to point at the rainbow	It to point at the rainbow, pointing finger or entire arm will rot, wither or become crooked

Similar traditions based on Cosmology and Etiology motifs:
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 7 Tradition: Southern Altai: Altai proper (Altai-Kiji), Telengit
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 7 Tradition: Thompson (Nlaka'pamux)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 7 Tradition: Buryats: Western (Cis-Baikal)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 7 Tradition: Wintu, Patwin, Nomlaki
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 7 Tradition: Khakas
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 7 Tradition: Lithuanians
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 7 Tradition: Romanians, Moldavians, Aromanians
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: Western Ojibwa (Chippewa)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 6 Tradition: Eastern Cree

Similar traditions based on Adventures and Tricks motifs:
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 1 Tradition: Southern Selkups
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 1 Tradition: Nganasans
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 1 Tradition: Enets
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 1 Tradition: Northern Selkups
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 1 Tradition: Kets
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 1 Tradition: Western Tungus/Evenki: Podkamennaya Tunguska, Katanga, Nepa, Kamenka, Upper Lena
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 1 Tradition: Tungus.Evenki) of Russian Far East
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 1 Tradition: Baikal RegionTungus/Evenki
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 1 Tradition: Central Yakuts (Sakha)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 1 Tradition: Northern Altai: Chelkan, Kumanda, Tubalar