Linked Motifs

Motif	Name	Description
b14	To regulate the river current, person creates rapids and falls	Person creates river rapids
b17	Night in container	Darkness is a particular object that can be carried (usually brought from its original owner in a container)
b9	Water in the tree trunk	There is enormous amount of water inside a trunk of a tree or a tree turns into water
b99	Person turned into the nest of insects	Person (his/her head) who was abandoned in a tree or falls on a tree turns into a nest of insects
f29	Girl sits on the ground	A girl or young woman who is usually occupied with domestic work (is cooking, weaving, etc.) sits on the ground and copulates with a penis-like creature that crawls from below into her vagina
f30	Snake paramour	A woman or a girl takes a snake, an eel (i.e. Pacific snake-eel), a lizard, or a worm for husband or paramour. People kill or badly injure him, the woman and/or her progeny or the woman herself is transformed into snake. Cf. motif k76b: the snake-husband becomes and remains a handsome man
f32	Tree fruits for a woman	Baby child or children who come out of mother's womb and turn themselves into adult men or a snake who lives in her womb climb up a tree and help the woman to gather fruits, bark, edible fungi, etc. Usually the child who is a snake returns to his mother's womb and adult man turns back into a baby; or the girl's love affair with a snake is discovered when her father climbs a tree to gather fruits for her
f34b	The paramour is not a human being	A girl (a woman, a group of women) intentionally takes a penis-being, a snake, an eel, a lizard, a worm, a big water animal or water monster or a big terrestrial mammal for paramour. People kill or maim the paramour, the woman and/or her progeny or she is transformed herself into an animal. She is blamed for her behavior
f7	The underwater-maiden	Man takes or attempts to take a wife who is connected with the underwater world (fish, crab, snake, water animal and the like)
f9	A dangerous woman	For different reasons, sexual contact with a woman is deadly dangerous for a man
f9a	Vagina dentata	There are teeth, blades or sharp stones in woman’s genitals, vagina is the biting mouth. (Only texts that are believed to correspond to reality are considered but not anecdotes and jokes)
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)
h24	Container opened too early	Container with valuables or with dangerous creatures is opened (before time). Its content goes out of control or disappear
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
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
i28	Animals in the underworld	Game animals live inside a mountain, in a cave or in the underworld where they often look like humans and have a master
i3	Weapon of Thunder	The lightning (and thunder) is (produced with) an object (axe, sword, mirror, belt, stones, skin, etc.) in hands of anthropomorphic being
i83	The sky of birds	Birds, first of all vultures and eagles, live in the sky, usually at one or more layers of the upper world
j1	The vengeful heroes	Persons avenge the death of their father, mother or other relatives who are one (rare two) generations older than they
j25	Babies escape and return	Heroes (usually one or two), being still babies or embryos, escape or are thrown away, often into the water. To bring them back into the human world, they are lured (persuaded) to come out or caught with difficulty
j26	Babies come out of the water	Baby heroes, embryos or objects from which they emerge are found in a river or lake or come to people out of the water
j4	Revenge for the death of the male relatives	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
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
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
l19a	Beings with even number of heads	Beings (any besides birds) with even but not more than ten number of heads are described in tales or represented in art. Beings that with even number of heads named in a row with other multi-headed beings and the highest number is even or bigger than ten are not considered
l32	Gluttonous stone	Stone swallows, bites or transforms people
m10	A girl and a honey	A girl or a woman who was stuck in a tree-hollow when she tried to extract honey or who was greedily sucking honey otherwise, dies or turns into the honey or into the bee
m44c	Thieves of food: a young hero	A boy or young man comes to steal food of a person who is elder than he. Usually he is caught but not punished and invited to live with the elder person
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.)
m9	Stuck in a tree hollow	Person who puts her or his head or hand into a tree hollow or (rare) other hole is stuck fast in it or falls into the hollow and dies or undergoes a metamorphosis
m9a	Transformed into tree-frog	Person who sucks honey greedily from a tree hollow and/or is stuck in it turns into tree-frog

Similar traditions based on Cosmology and Etiology motifs:
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 6 Tradition: Kabiyari, Yukuna (Yucuna)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Yupa (Yukpa)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Choco: Embera, Nonama (Waunana), XVI century Dabaiba, pre-Columbian iconography of Sinu
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Barasana, Taibano, Macuna
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Colorado (Tsachila)
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: Ticuna (Tucuna)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Warao
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Sanema
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Suruí, Gaviâo, Zoro, Arua, Cinta Larga

Similar traditions based on Adventures and Tricks motifs:
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 8 Tradition: Desana, Siriano; Tatuyo, Bara, Tuyuca
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 7 Tradition: Barasana, Taibano, Macuna
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 6 Tradition: Wayapi, Emerillon
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 6 Tradition: Kamayura
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Shuar, Achuar (Shiwiar)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Warao
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Manao, Katawishi (Teffé lake); groups of uncertain affiliation mostly from Rio Jamunda
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: Baniwa (incl. Wakuenai), Bare, Piapoco, Curripaco, Siusi, Guarikena
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Napo (Quijo), Kanelo (“Jungle Kechua”)