Linked Motifs

Motif	Name	Description
a35	Spots on the lunar disc	Dark spots on the lunar disc are dirt, blood, paint, traces of beating, burning, scratching, etc. on the Moon person's body or face (Kiliwa: spots on the Sun) and do not form any particular figure
a4	Female sun	The Sun is female, the Moon is male or (more rare) also female
b26	Man joins wild animals	Person who follows the wild animals turns into one of them or into their master
b36	Creatures acquire their physical traits	Birds, fish, reptiles, mammals intentionally or by chance are smeared with colorful substances or divide among themselves parts of somebody's body thus acquiring their present characteristics
c10	The flood: the wet tails	During the flood birds or animals escape to some place (mountain, tree, boat, sky). Tips of their tails or other body parts get covered with water or foam and acquire their present color and form
c10a	The flood: birds cling to the sky	During the flood some birds survive clinging to the sky with their beaks
e9c	Ungulate animal-wife	A man marries a woman who initially has guise of an ungulate animal (buffalo, elk, derr, etc.)
f70	Potiphar's wife: false accusation of sexual abuse	Woman makes vain overtures to young man and/or falsely accuses him of sexual abuse. Her husband believes that the young man is guilty, kills or tries to kill him
f70a	Disordered clothes as evidence against innocent man	To accuse a man or boy of (sexual) abbuse, a woman tears her clothes, smears or scratches her body pretending to be attacked
h18	Hoarded game released	Game animals were concentrated in one single place. Certain person lets them disperse in the world
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
i37g	Fungi are steps, platforms, obstacles	Tree fungi are steps, small platforms, umbrellas, obstacles that make moving easier or more difficult, provide a shelter or cover
j40	Enemy from the sky	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.)
j41a	Son transforms mother into a bird	When hero returns, he finds his mother being tormented during his absence and transforms her (and usually himself) into a certain bird
j41b	Son returns and burns tormentors using magic	When hero returns and finds his mother being tormented during his absence, he burns the tormentors producing fire and heat by magic
k1e	Marooned on an islet	Person is marooned on an islet or on another side of a sea or wide river
k1f	Conflict because of a woman	A man maroons another because of jealousy or because he plans to take hold of his wife
k24	Stolen clothes of supernatural woman	Women (rare: men) who possess supernatural power and usually come from a non-human world (from sky, from under the water, they are winged beings, bird- or animal-persons; rare: a girl of higher social status than the hero) take off their clothes (feather skins and the like) or part of it. Because a person hides the clothes (of one of them), their owner(s) have (has) to marry him or help him (rare: her)
k25	Magic wife	A man consciously marries a woman related to the non-human world
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
k27y	To get material for making bow and arrows	Hero is sent or sets off by his own will to get two or more different materials needed for making bow and arrows (wood or reed for shafts, feathers, tendons for string, flint for points, paint to paint the shafts, gum to stick points to the shafts)
k27yy1	To get feathers of a dangerous bird	Hero brings a feather (feathers) of a dangerous bird
k28	Father or uncle is rival and enemy	Maternal uncle or father (or grandfather if he replaces father who is not mentioned) of the young man is his rival or enemy and tries to kill him
k32	The false wife	An ugly, old, lazy, etc. woman or (in Chaco) a male trickster comes to man under disguise of his wife or bride who is driven out, confined to the underworld, killed, etc.
k33	Drowned woman remains alive	A young woman is transformed into an animal, pushed into the water, into the underworld or she herself has to plunge into water (acquire animal form). Her connection with the human world is not completely lost, however, and usually she is helped to return to the people
k49	Dead mother returns to nurse her baby	A woman who is transformed into animal or driven out of the human world returns to her baby to feed and to care for him
l15a	Vulnerable place on the body	The only vulnerable spot is near the surface of person’s or creature’s body and not in his inner organs
l38	Demon’s trap	A demon puts a trap to catch people, hero gets into it
l45	Duped watchman	An ogre or a stronger animal catches a man or a weaker animal or drives him into a small enclosure and goes away for a time leaving a watchman. The hero dupes the watchman, escapes. (Most, though hardly all American cases can have post-Columbian African origin)
l48	Demons devour their comrades	A man kills (usually in a tree, on a rock, at the edge of a well, of a precipice) and/or throws down one of his enemies. The other enemies do not recognize their comrade and think that their prey is falling down
m29l	Trickster is an opossum	In episodes related to deception, absurd, obscene or anti-social behavior the protagonist is an opossum

Similar traditions based on Cosmology and Etiology motifs:
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 6 Tradition: Xipaya (Shipaya)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 6 Tradition: Cherokee
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Upland Yuma: Walapai, Havasupai, Yavapai
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Wayana, Aparai
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Tlingit
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Barasana, Taibano, Macuna
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Letuama, Tanimuca, Ufaina, Yahuna
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Witoto, Ocaina
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Mataco
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Mundurucu, Curuaia

Similar traditions based on Adventures and Tricks motifs:
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Western Swampy Cree (incl. Rock Cree)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Sauk (Sak, Mesquakie), Fox, Kickapoo
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Upper Tanana (Nebesna)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Lkungen (Straits; including Samish, Songish, Sooke, Lummi), Klallam
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Tagish
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Beaver
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Gwich'in (Kutchin, Loucheux)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Assiniboine
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Tunica
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Upland Yuma: Walapai, Havasupai, Yavapai