The Moon is female or bisexual, the Sun is male
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
The earth or the world as a whole is a male person (alone or together with a female person)
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
Birds or humans later changed to birds are sent to explore the earth (is it dry, are any survivals, to investigate why smoke rises to the sky, etc.) or to bring some soil to make the land that would be good for living
During or before the world catastrophe (deluge, darkness) wild beasts and monsters attack and destroy people
Person feeds another with the meat of his or her sexual partner who cooks or eats it without knowing whose meat it is
Giant water-chthonic or sky serpent or dragon has horns or antlers on its head
In the Beyond, two mythological personages, one male and another female, meet the newcomers, or the same person meet the women in the female and the men in the male guise
Rainbow is a reptile (usually a snake) or (more rare) a fish, or it is related to snake, to its tongue, breath, or to scorpion's tail
Giant reptilian monster (serpent, more rare fish, chain of fish) extends in the sky and/or supports the sky being associated with Milky Way or the rainbow
Milky Way is a reptile, fish, or chain of fish
It to point at the rainbow, pointing finger or entire arm will rot, wither or become crooked
Thunder or giant bird fights against a reptile, big water animal or other big and strong creature who lives in water or under the earth
Person or creature has another pair of eyes (or one eye) on the back of his head or (rare) on his back
Person kills or injures his enemy putting fire on his or her straw costume, mask, headgear, hair or object on his or her back
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
A man does not share food with his wife or kinsfolk. He or his food is transformed (turns into a bird, into worms, etc.) in punishment
Person or animal is killed or injured with a heavy object dropped from a tree (or rock, etc.). The person or the animal knows that the objects will fall but has falls ideas about its character and weight
Person or creature pretends to be afraid of a particular sort of treatment that really cannot do him any harm
In episodes related to deception, absurd, obscene or anti-social behavior the protagonist is hare or rabbit
A turtle (tortoise, toad, frog) behaves foolishly creating serious problems for himself
Person or creature who has no wings or is unable to fly on a long distance attempts to ascend to the sky or to fly far away but falls down or, deprived of his wings, remains in a place from which he is unable to return
Punishing a person or animal or restoring his or its body after its disintegration, a powerful being intentionally or by chance puts head to bottoms
A man or an animal beats alligator but it remains unharmed and says that he would be killed if stricken in one special place on his body. The next time the same person strikes alligator this way and kills it
The lightning (and thunder) is (produced with) an object (axe, sword, mirror, belt, stones, skin, etc.) in hands of anthropomorphic being
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
Baby heroes, embryos or objects from which they emerge are found in a river or lake or come to people out of the water
A young hero obtains and uses weapons or other powerful objects which belonged to his murdered father
Twin heroes' parent dies or is killed, an attempt to revive him or her fails
The (adoptive) children or grandchildren and not person's spouse or brother kill the paramour of their (step)mother or father
After the crocodile or caiman swallows or loses fire (that he possessed before), he remains without his tongue; or the crocodile's tongue is cut off to make something related to celestial fire (thunderbolt, sun beams, etc.
Four cardinal directions and/or some objects associated with them are associated with different colors
Water is the original element, the dry earth appears later
Ants are the first who find cultivated plants (corn or manioc) which are concealed from the others in particular place
A man gets into the nest of a giant bird on a high rock or tree. He descends to the earth killing the bird and fixing its feathers or wings to his body or (more often) using the bird’s nestling (riding on its back, holding its feet, fixing its feathers or wings)
The river bed follows the way of a snake, fish, dragon or crab; pieces of the snake’s body turn into rivers; a river is a snake
Monstrous bird (giant bat) predates on humans. Heroes fight with it
The sky or the earth rests upon four or five (cardinal points and the center) supports of any kind (poles, mountains, giants)
Beings who live in the sky descend to kill people. Usually such a being carries away to its world a person or many people (or person's cut off head or limb). The hero (usually a relation of the perished one) revenges on the dangerous being and/or brings back the victim or victims (his or her head, etc.)
Four (or eight) anthropomorphic male persons support the earth or the sky or are placed at the four cardinal points
Persons avenge the death of their father, mother or other relatives who are one (rare two) generations older than they