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
a12a	Eclipses: a predator animal	During an eclipse or at other circumstances the Sun or the Moon are attacked by a predator animal (a bear, a feline, a canine, a racoon)
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
a16	Dangers along the Sun’s way	Every night the Sun passes by creatures or objects which try to destroy them
a24	The first sunrise	In the beginning it is dark. When the Sun first appears on the sky, primeval beings or part of them perish or turn into animals, spirits, stones
a27	Crowns of the Sun and Moon	Light and/or heat of the Sun and/or Moon originate from their crowns, necklaces or clothes (of feathers, of animal teeth)
a3	Male sun and female moon	The Moon is female or bisexual, the Sun is male
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
b62	Buzzard husband	Man thinks that buzzard or hawk has better life than he. They exchange clothes. The bird lives with the man's wife as her husband, the man usually does not enjoy his bird life
c9	Warning about the coming flood	God, animal, some person warns one of the people about the catastrophy (usuallly the flood) that will become soon and in which most of the people must perish
g31	Trees tied up with a rope	To clear a garden plot, persons put a rope around many trees and fells them all without much effort
g9	Restored forest	People fell trees to make a garden. In the morning, the forest is intact again
g9b	Abandon your work, flood is coming	A man fells trees to clear ground for a garden or breaks ground. Certain person or animal revives vegetation, makes the soil virgin again. He or she explains that the flood is coming, there is no sense to work and advices to prepare a floating device
h12	The alive person comes to the land of the dead after somebody’s death	The alive person comes to the land of the dead to bring back somebody who has recently died (besides stories about shamans who journey to the other world to bring back the soul of a sick person) or, having no particular aim, goes there in company of somebody who had recently died or following his or her tracks
h12c	Orpheus: to return the dead wife	Husband follows his dead wife to the other world but is unable to bring her back or succeeds to do it but loses her once again
h32a	Superfertility lost: a maltreated wife	Supernatural woman comes to live with humans. Thanks to that, food becomes easily available. She is maltreated, goes away, temporal superfertility is lost forever
i48a	Falling down into the underworld	At the terminal part of the narrative the antagonist of the hero descends into the underworld
i82a	Venus is male	Morning and/or Evening Star is a male personage
k75	The youngest daughter is willing (The loathsome bridegroom)	A girl (usually the youngest of several sisters) does not reject but marries a poor, sick, dirty, old, too young, non-human, etc. man who later demonstrates his supernatural qualities
k86	Weeping child stolen	Because a small child is ignored or punished by its parents (usually it cries late in the evening), bush spirit or animal carries it away
m11c	Person gets lard from his body	A male person cuts or roasts his own body to extract meat, lard or blood, cooks it and serves to his guest without injuring himself. Such a food is not considered to be unclean
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

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