Linked Motifs

Motif	Name	Description
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
b3e	Earth falls on waters	In the beginning there are only air and water. 1) Person descends from the sky, creates the dry land or a hard support created for her or him grows into the earth. 2) The earth is sent or dropped from the sky, put on the surface of the water. 3) The earth is brought from somewhere (not from the underworld) and put on the water
b79a1	A bird dropped hard substance on water	In the beginning of time, a bird flies and drops some solid substance on the waters and the dry land or an island appear. Sometimes the precise nature of the substratum on which the solid piece falls is not defined
l15d	The external soul	Life of a person or creature is preserved outside of his (her, its) body. Person or creature dies after the corresponding object is destroyed
l38	Demon’s trap	A demon puts a trap to catch people, hero gets into it
l38a	A sticky trap	Person sticks to an object, usually touching it one by one with his body members. The object is a trap of demonic creature or is a non human creature itself
l42	Hero carried to ogre’s home	An ogre or ogress catches a person and brings him to his or her home where he or she plans to cook and eat him. The hero escapes
l42b	Credulous children of the ogre	An ogre's child or (rare) wife believes in what hero tells him (or her) and releases him. Usually the hero kills the child and puts its meat to cook in the very pot where the ogre planned to cook the hero
l42c	Now in, now outdoors	Person hides from the powerful one now in his house, now outdoors, the powerful cannot catch him
l72	The obstacle flight	Running away from a dangerous being, person throws small objects behind him or her which turn into mighty obstacles on the way of the pursuer
l72a	Comb becomes a thicket	Running away from a dangerous being, person throws a comb (a brush) that turns into mighty obstacle (usually a thicket) on the way of the pursuer. (In South America the motif is probably of European origin)
m21	A protector hides fugitives	The protagonist pursued by an enemy comes across a person, an animal or an object to help him and receives help
m29b	Trickster-fox, jackal or coyote	In episodes related to deception, absurd, obscene or anti-social behavior the protagonist is fox, jackal or coyote
m3	Chain of animals	Person crosses a water or air space along the chain of many animals, birds or fish
m3a	Counting water animals	Animal who does not swim well suggests animals who live in water to count their number. For this, they should make a chain and he would run along it. It is but a trick to cross a body of water
m85	The fox bluffs	An animal person (usually a fox or a jackal) threatens to cut down a tree on which mother bird (squirrel) made its nest unless she will throw down one of her nestlings (squirrel children) or eggs. Another bird lets the mother bird know that the predator is unable to realize his threat

Similar traditions based on Cosmology and Etiology motifs:
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Udeghe
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Evens (Lamuts) of Kamchatka
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Menominee
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Kond (Khond, Kondh; language is Kui, incl Kuttia, Konda-Dora), Koya; Pengo
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Evens (Lamuts)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Hindi-speaking peoples and casts (incl. Teli, Parahiya; incl. Chhattisgarhi) of Northern and West-Central India
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Five Nations Iroquois (Seneca, Mohawk, Onondaga, Oneida, Cayuga)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Mansi
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Mongols (Khalkha)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Dards (Kalash, Kho, Kohistani, Shina, Pashai)

Similar traditions based on Adventures and Tricks motifs:
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 9 Tradition: Western Tungus/Evenki: Podkamennaya Tunguska, Katanga, Nepa, Kamenka, Upper Lena
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 9 Tradition: Evens (Lamuts)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 8 Tradition: Oroch
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 7 Tradition: Nivkh
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 7 Tradition: Central Yakuts (Sakha)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 7 Tradition: Baikal RegionTungus/Evenki
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 7 Tradition: Ilimpii Tungus/Evenki
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 6 Tradition: Forest (Upper Kolyma) Yukaghir (Oduls)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 6 Tradition: Byelarusians
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 6 Tradition: Nanai