Linked Motifs

Motif	Name	Description
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
b2b	The earth eats the dead	The earth devours bodies of the people when they die and are buried
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
b67	Tree turns to rocks	People fell giant tree. The fallen tree and/or its stump turns into mountain(s) or rocks
e1b	Person of unfit materials	Certain person is made of improper material and proves to be short-lived or unfit for fulfilling his functions
e2	People made for a test	Making people, creator does not reach perfection immediately. First variants of creation are rejected, then proper form and material found
e8	People of wood	The first people or (the first) woman (wife of a primeval ancestor) are made of wood
f1	First woman is a transformed man	Woman, female supernatural or animal females are created by changing the sex of a man (or male animals)
f6	Gouged our vagina	Woman has no vagina and it is later made by bird or animal
g10	The hanging tree	A tree which trunk is cut through do not fall because it is hold from above
g11	Squirrel the woodcutter	A squirrel plays crucial role in felling the gigantic tree
g12	Tree is a person	A giant tree (often with water inside it or with different cultivated plants on its branches) grows out of the human body or is transformed person
g5	Food tree	Fruits and shoots of different cultivated plants grow on the branches of one tree (on one vine) or certain plant has a tree form that is alien to it in nature
g6	Primeval tree	One of the trees is the principal, original one (emerged before all the other; ancestor of wild or cultivated plants; ocean or rivers inside it; world axis; higher than all the others; overshadows sky)
g8	Restored tree	A deep notch in the tree (or in the sky support) is magically restored as soon as persons or creatures who cut or gnaw it stop working
g8c	Cutting tree to get valuables	(Animal-)people try to fell a tree that contains water and fish or has cultivated plants on its branches. The notch disappears and the tree becomes intact
g8f	Chips destroyed	A deep notch in the tree is magically restored when persons or creatures who cut it go away to take a rest. They get to fell the tree after they begin to burn the cut off chips or to carry them far way
h24	Container opened too early	Container with valuables or with dangerous creatures is opened (before time). Its content goes out of control or disappear
h27	Mosquitoes let lose	Stinging insects (rare diseases) had been inside a container or some enclosure. They escaped to the world when the container or enclosure was foolishly opened
h28	Plagues from the body of a person or creature	Killed and destroyed (often burned) person or creature (usually ogre, fierce animal, powerful shaman) turns into a multitude of biting insects or into other small molesting creatures
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
i14	No-anus people	Person or creature has no anus opening
i17	Body anomalies of inhabitants of a distant land	Beings without mouth, anus, genitals, whose women do not know how to give birth live in the underworld, in the sky, or in a far-away land
i20	The undeground dwarfs	Race of dwarfs lives under the ground (deep under the earth or in hills and rocks) or at the horizon where the earth and the sky meet
i20c	Dwarfs live in the underworld	Dwarfs live in the underworld that somewhat reminds the world of humans. If the dwarfs and the humans meet, it is deep under the earther
j12	Travelling girl walks across suitors	A girl (or two sisters) travel, usually in search of a proper marriage partner who lives far away or who has gone away. On her way or after reaching the place of destination the girl gets to some unpleasant suitors
j12d	Imposter kills his rival	After a girl marries a valuable suitor, a rejected imposter or his relations kill him
j13	Two sisters	Two sisters (if more, only two play a significant role in the plot) travel and meet an unpleasant suitor or get to an ogre
k12	Woman is lost and returned	By trick or by force, a rival or adversary kidnaps hero's wife or bride. The man gets her back
k176	A man in search of the woman	A (young) man sets off to find or to return his bride or his wife
k177	The travelling heroine	A girl or young woman sets off to find or return her fience or her husband or she escapes from a fanger and ultimately marries happily
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
k27o	Ball game	A contest: ball game
k30	Flying enemy abducts woman	Flying person or creature abducts a woman but is ultimately killed or the woman escapes from him
k30a	The chief’s wife and vultures	Wife of a chief abandons him with vultures (usually by her own will being untrue to her husband). The chief (Witoto: her own brother) brings her back
m75	Valuables taken off the vultures	Person attracts and catches the carrion-eaters (usually some birds) and thanks to this obtains valuables retrieves valuables (fire, woman, animals, etc.)
m8	Breaking the obstacle	Non-human persons work hard to destroy a strong and durable obstacle that blocks access to some place or object

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Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 7 Tradition: Sicuani
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Yupa (Yukpa)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Tzotzil
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Sanema
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Pemon: Arekuna (incl. Kamarakoto), Taulipang (Taurepan)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Andoque
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Witoto, Ocaina
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Makiritare (Yecuana)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Mindanao: Blaan (Bilaan), Bagobo, Bukidnon, Cotabato, Hiligáynon, Binukid, Magindaan (=Magindanao: main Muslim population), Mandaya, Mansaka, Manobo (Agusan, Ata, Dibabawon, Sarangani, Ilianen), Maranao, Subanon (=Subanun), Subanen, Tboli
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Bidayuh (incl. Maloh), Iban (Sea Dayak), Sakarram; Brunei

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Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 8 Tradition: Sicuani
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 6 Tradition: Barasana, Taibano, Macuna
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 6 Tradition: Witoto, Ocaina
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 6 Tradition: Desana, Siriano; Tatuyo, Bara, Tuyuca
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Kekchi; Mopan
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Napo (Quijo), Kanelo (“Jungle Kechua”)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Kabiyari, Yukuna (Yucuna)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Ticuna (Tucuna)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Yanomamo (Yanoama): Yanomam, Yanomami
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Kamayura