Linked Motifs

Motif	Name	Description
a1	The old sun	Another sun, usually less benevolent and/or powerful, existed before the present one
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
b42	Cosmic hunt	Certain stars or constellations are interpreted as hunters, their dogs and game that the hunters pursue
b42b	Sky hunters pursue an ungulate	In the cosmic hunt tale the game pursued by the hunters is an ungulate (elk, deer, mountain sheep, etc.)
b42h	The Belt of Orion is the game, other star is the hunter	The Belt of Orion is the animal or three animals, other star (of the Orion or outside of this constellation) is the hunter
b48	Predators become herbivorous	Weak or herbivorous animals were dangerous predators but have been transformed
f64	The lecherous parent	Person changes his or (rare) her guise to marry his or her close relative in descending or (rare) ascending line
f64a	Describes future husband	Going away or pretending to die, a person bids his or her relative to marry another person who resembles him (her) or has some special traits; or he describes a man who should be met as a dear guest; person comes himself unrecognized and is taken for one whom he had described
f65	The false burial	To realize his or her secret desire (illicit sex, refusal to share food with relations), person pretends to die and is abandoned at a burial place
f65c	The feigned burial: boy exposes deceit	A man feigns death to marry his daughter or to eat burial food. One of the younger children recognizes the (adoptive) father or gets to see that the false dead is alive (escapes from the burial pyre, laughs, etc.)
f74	Naked person shams dead	When a person sees a dangerous enemy, he or she shams dead taking his or her clothes off, or the enemy takes off them himself. The enemy believes that it is a corpse, lets it alone
h54b	The glance of death	Person’s glance brings death (and destruction)
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
i6	Weather birds	A man meets a giant bird that brings with it clouds, rain, hail, thunderstorm, etc.
i6a	Male and female birds: different kinds of precipitation	The male and the female birds bring with them different kinds of precipitations (e.g. the male comes with a hail, the female with a rain). Or (Buryats of Mongolia) one and the same bird brings different kinds of precipitations depending on is it angry or not.
i9	Colors of the cardinal directions	Four cardinal directions and/or some objects associated with them are associated with different colors
k10	Fight with the monstrous bird	Monstrous bird (giant bat) predates on humans. Heroes fight with it
k10c	Wrapped in guts	Hero (or twins) hangs on his body a bag with animal bowels full of blood. Breaking them with its claws, the bird thinks that its victim is killed and brings the man to its nest. He kills the adult bird, kills or transforms its nestlings
k11a	Feathers turn into birds or men	Feathers of (giant) bird turn into different present day birds (in their plumage) or into the men
k11a1	Birds emerge from the monstrous bird	Pierces of flesh or feathers of monstrous/unusual bird turn into common birds (or into their plumage)
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
l15a	Vulnerable place on the body	The only vulnerable spot is near the surface of person’s or creature’s body and not in his inner organs
l15a1	Achilles' heel	Vulnerable place on the body of a person or creature is on his or her foot (toe, heel, sole, ankle)
l39	Hero is compelled to descend from a tree	When a person climbs a tree, a demon comes to it and carries the person away, or the person follows the demon to his world by his own will
l41	Hero escapes on the way	An ogre or ogress catches a person and carries his or her prey home but the person escapes on the way or immediately after reaching the ogre's house
l66	Tunnel under the monster	A small animal digs an underground hole to the place where the monstrous stag, elk, antelope, or buffalo lies. Hero climbs along the tunnel and kills the monster
l67	Monster’s hair gnawed off	After digging a tunnel under a lying monstrous animal, a small animal (usually a mouse) bites off the monster's hair at a certain place. Hero kills the monster thrusting his spear or arrow through the hairless place into the monster's heart
l98	Cannibal owl	Dangerous cannibal or bush spirit who abducts children, attacks people, etc. is associated with an owl
m103	Children with pretty spots	Person asks another how her or his children got their pretty colors. Another answers that she or he put them into the fire. roasted, etc. The first person believes, kills his or her children
m29b	Trickster-fox, jackal or coyote	In episodes related to deception, absurd, obscene or anti-social behavior the protagonist is fox, jackal or coyote
m38	Stupid imitation (all versions)	Person sees how others act using magic or according to their animal nature. He or she imitates their actions and gets into trouble. Actions are not heroic deeds, competitions or tests and refer to everyday activity, mostly to providing and cooking food
m38a	The bungling host	Being on a visit to other people or (more often) animals, an (animal)-person sees them act using magic or according to their animal nature. Back at home, he imitates their actions and gets in trouble. Actions are not heroic deeds, competitions or tests and mostly refer to providing and cooking food
m40	The distorted instructions	Person is sent to receive something of relatively low value. He asks to give him quite different object (to provide a service) and asks one who had sent him to confirm the demand. Usually a person or animal comes to a wife or a son of a powerful one and tells her or him that her (his) husband or father tells to give him food, to make love to him, to marry him, etc.

Similar traditions based on Cosmology and Etiology motifs:
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 9 Tradition: Jicarilla
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 8 Tradition: Lipan
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 7 Tradition: Western Apache (White Mountain, San Carlos)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 6 Tradition: Navajo
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 6 Tradition: Chiricahua
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Upper Tanana (Nebesna)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Zuni
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Arapaho
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Inland Tlingit
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Southern Altai: Altai proper (Altai-Kiji), Telengit

Similar traditions based on Adventures and Tricks motifs:
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 9 Tradition: Chiricahua
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 8 Tradition: Navajo
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 8 Tradition: Eastern Keres (Cochiti, Sia, San Felipe, Santo Domingo, Santa Ana, Paguate, Seama)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 7 Tradition: Jicarilla
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 7 Tradition: Upland Yuma: Walapai, Havasupai, Yavapai
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 6 Tradition: Western Apache (White Mountain, San Carlos)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 6 Tradition: Crow
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Lipan
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Assiniboine
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Ute