Linked Motifs

Motif	Name	Description
a2d	Suns of the other worlds	Different suns illuminate different worlds or will appear successively in the future
b102	Clouds from smoke	Clouds are formed from smoke that ascends from the earth
b26	Man joins wild animals	Person who follows the wild animals turns into one of them or into their master
c1	The collapse of the sky	Catastropic displacement of layers of the univers in the past or in the future is mentioned. Among variants (sometimes combined): the sky fell on the earth; the earth (the underworld) and the sky interchanged their positions; the earth turned upside down; the layers of the universe collapsed in one after another; they will change their place during the future cataclysm
c2	Deluge and conflagration combined	Inhabitans of the Middle World are (partly) destroyed (or will be destoyed) once by fire or draught, another time by a flood or the world is destroyed with a flood of fire or boiling water
d12	Food baked in the sun	First people or inhabitants of a distant country cook food in the sun; or fire owner lies that he or she cooks food in the sun
e1a	First people of unstable materials	First human beings are made of unstable materials (mud, wax, fire, honey, etc.) and unviable
e28	Moon's blood drops to earth	People shoot into the Moon person, his blood drops to earth
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)
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
f50	The often-born children	Child or children come out of mother's womb and return back
g23	Alive being turns into many objects	Person or creature is transformed. Separate parts of its (his, her) body give origin to different objects or creatures (only etiological narratives are considered)
h37	Magic device lost by a failure	Magic object, device that makes hunting or fishing easy gets into possession of a person who is unable to operate it or abuses it. The device kills or injures the failure himself, other people and/or disappears
i10b	Colored layers of the earth	Particular layers or categories of the earth have different colors
i24	A snake bridge	Snake, lizard or worm is a bridge or a rope over the river
i41	Rainbow serpent	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
i41b	Rainbow drinks water	Rainbow drinks (soaks up) water
i41b	Rainbow drinks water	Rainbow drinks (soaks up) water
i42	Rainbow is a pair of creatures	Rainbow is two creatures or persons, usually a male and a female
i5	Thunder is an animal	Thunder looks like a quadruped mammal (pig, buffalo, camel, anteater, tapir, dog, cat, leopard, monkey, etc.)
i54	Water creature full of fish	Anaconda or a water monster has live fish or animals inside; is father of the fish; all fish emerge from its body
i72	Stars are people	Stars are people, ghosts, anthropomorphic beings (interpretations of unique star objects like Venus or Polaris as persons not considered)
j38	Talons got stuck	A mighty bird thrust its talons into a big fish, whale, water monster, etc. Talons get stuck, the bird is either pulled down under the water or makes itself free with great difficulty
k10	Fight with the monstrous bird	Monstrous bird (giant bat) predates on humans. Heroes fight with it
k11b	Reeds from bird’s bones	Bones of a giant bird turn into reeds or bamboo from which arrows or blowpipes are made
l98	Cannibal owl	Dangerous cannibal or bush spirit who abducts children, attacks people, etc. is associated with an owl

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