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A1 - Another sun - less powerful or less favourable to humans - existed before the present sun. ...
A1a - Before the sun came, the world was illuminated by a large, brightly colored bird...
A2 - In a certain time in the past three or more suns were on the sky simultaneously...
A2a - The world has been or will be (almost) burned down when several suns are lit or are lit at the same ...
A2a1 - Initially, the Moon was as bright and hot as the Sun...
A2b - In addition to the current sun and/or the current moon, others shone in the sky, which were then des...
A2b1 - Two or more suns shine in the sky. When the extra ones are destroyed, there is a danger that the lat...
A2c - The extra suns that were in the past or may appear in the future are the children of the Father Sun....
A2c1 - The sun is going to have kids. One animal warns that if the Sun has children, the world will burn. T...
A2c2 - The catastrophy that is dangerous for the earth is related to the simultaneous appearance of not onl...
A2d - Other suns illuminate other levels of the universe or will shine consistently in the future. ...
A2e - Different suns shine in the sky at different times during the same day. ...
A3 - The moon is female or two-sexed, the Sun is male, or probably male. ...
A4 - The sun is a woman (the moon is usually male, sometimes also female, see motive A6; in the list of e...
A4a - In order not to look at it, the Sun blinds people's immodest eyes (usually stabs with needles, these...
A4b - The sun has decided to walk across the sky during the day because it is afraid of the night. ...
A4e - An anthropomorphic person associated with the thunder and rain rides on the clouds (uses them as a v...
A5 - month is a man, the Sun is also a man or (rarely) has no gender. ...
A5a - younger brother (usually the Sun) is made from the urine and diapers of an older brother (usually th...
A6 - The sun and moon are considered female characters (including the cases of Tuscarora, Oneida, when th...
A7 - The sun and the month/moon are creatures of the opposite sex. A man is chasing a woman or a woman af...
A7a - The light of the sun (moon, Venus) is a burning torch in the hand of the star. ...
A8 - The sun, moon and stars are three brothers or three sisters. ...
A8a - The sun, moon and star (stars) appear as three consecutive and comparable objects/characters in the ...
A8b - When the Sun descends below the horizon, it shines to the anthropomorphic denizens of the netherworl...
A9 - Luna Woman does not allow her son or husband Sun to destroy humans. ...
A10 - The sun gets its sparkling eyes (eyes) from the animal. ...
A11a - The visible sun or moon is their eyes; if the eyes of the lights were not damaged, it would be much ...
A11b - The Sun or One-Eye Month (blind). See motive 11A. ...
A11c - The sun and moon kill a monster whose eyes shine differently. At first, the Moon takes a brighter ey...
A12 - A creature or creatures regularly (sunrise and set, winter and summer, night and day, moon phases) o...
A12a - During an eclipse or under other circumstances, predators attack the stars: wolf, bear, jaguar, puma...
A12b - During an eclipse or at sunset (marked with*), a toad or frog swallows the lights. ...
A12c - Eclipses of the sun, moon, or their setting (marked with*) are caused by a snake, lizard, dragon, fi...
A12d - Birds attack the sun or moon during an eclipse (cover them with their wings) or (*) cover the sun du...
A12e - spider causes eclipses of the moon. See motive A12. ...
A12f - luminaries fade because the lender demands that they repay the debt. ...
A12g - The character tries to overshadow the month for talking about his crime. ...
A13a - The raven steals or hides the sun or tries to do so. ...
A13a1 - The raven saves or retrieves hidden or stolen sun (daylight). ...
A13b - During an eclipse or when night first appears, ants darken the sun. ...
A14 - The encounter between the sun and the moon is the cause of eclipses or lunar phases. ...
A14a - The Sun and the Moon are or were enemies, either permanently or in particular situations...
A15 - An eclipse or spots on the lunar disk are due to the fact that the moon or sun is turning on the wro...
A16 - Every night, the sun passes by creatures or objects trying to swallow and destroy it. ...
A17 - Halfway through the sky or through the underworld, the Sun stops to rest. ...
A18 - The sun and/or moon make their day and/or night (underground, in the country below the horizon, over...
A19a - Moving through the sky every day, the sun changes mounts (usually rides an animal that moves slowly ...
A19b - Moving across the sky, the sun changes mounts depending on the season - it rides slowly in summer, a...
A19c - The sun is associated with a rider or rides in a horse-drawn (ecwid) wagon. ...
A19c1 - The sun goes across the sky in a wagon or sleigh. ...
A20 - The sun and moon (or Sun and Star, Month and Star) are children, teenagers who initially live on ear...
A21 - The sun and/or moon were objects that were abandoned or placed in the sky. ...
A21a - The moon is an object accidentally released by its owners or stolen from them and as a result falls ...
A22 - One or two people fall into a fire or boiling water and ascend to the sky, turning into a sun and/or...
A22a - Two characters burn; one becomes the current sun and the other becomes a less significant celestial ...
A22b - The sun and its satellite burn down. The satellite burns at a less hot fire (rushes into ash, etc.);...
A22c - In order for the sun to rise, move away from the earth, or follow its heavenly path, a person must b...
A22d - A burned character turns into a constellation or dark spot on the Milky Way. ...
A23 - first ancestors come together to choose who should be the sun to raise the sun to the sky, to see th...
A23a - Arguing about superiority or seniority, the characters agree to decide who will be the first to see ...
A23b - Two characters are arguing about which of them will be the first to see the rising sun. The winner i...
A23c - Birds are arguing which of them will fly higher or arrive first. The winner is the one whose victory...
A23d - Animals argue which of them should stand at the beginning of the calendar cycle (twelve months or ye...
A24 - The first ancestors live at dusk. When they are first exposed to the sun, they die, turn into animal...
A24a - When the first day or first night falls, humans become supernatural characters. ...
A25 - When people go to earth (for the first time or after a global catastrophe) or when they are present ...
A26 - bird embodies the sun, daylight; it can be caught, released, killed. ...
A27 - The light and/or heat of the sun and/or moon is contained in their crowns, necklaces, or clothing (m...
A28 - The smart Sun man draws the stupid Month into all sorts of tricks he can't invent himself. Trying to...
A29 - A character connected to the upper world, and a character connected to the land or lower world, each...
A29a - Heavenly and earthly women (demon) pull a man in different directions. As a result, he (or half of i...
A29b - A character connected to the upper world, and a character connected to the land or lower world, each...
A30 - A month comes down to earth to eat children, dead bodies, or bones from the dead. ...
A31 - As a result of intimate contacts, love conflict, etc. The month (Moon) takes on its current appearan...
A31a - Upon learning that her husband or lover has done something incompatible with accepted norms, the wom...
A32 - On the lunar disk, you can see a figure or print of a creature or object. In statistical calculation...
A32a - On the lunar disk, you can see the figure or body print of a rabbit or hare. ...
A32b - The lunar disk shows the figure or body print of a toad or frog, and the moon is associated with thi...
A32b1 - A woman sits (jumps) on the face (back) of a month-old man and is now visible in the silhouette of m...
A32c - Human and dog figures are visible (or should have been seen) on the lunar disk. ...
A32c1 - The lunar disk shows the figure or print of a predatory mammal (fox, wolf, dog, coyote, jaguar, lion...
A32d - The lunar disk shows the figure or body print of an anthropomorphic creature. ...
A32d1 - Cain and Abel are associated with the moon and are usually distinguishable (both or only Cain) in th...
A32d2 - A person with a pitchfork in his hands can be seen in the silhouette of moonspots. ...
A32dd - The lunar disc shows the figure or imprint of an anthropomorphic character carrying a bunch of firew...
A32e - On the lunar disk, you can see a character holding an object or animal. See A32D motif. ...
A32f - On the lunar disk, you can see a character going to get water and/or holding a liquid vessel in his ...
A32g - The lunar disc shows a character holding on to a tree or bush and ending up on the moon with it. See...
A32h - The lunar disk shows a tree, a bush, a branch, a driftwood, etc. See motif A32G. ...
A32i - On the lunar disk, you can see a shepherd (a shepherd and a girl, a shepherd and his herd, dogs). ...
A32j - shaman with a tambourine rises to the moon and stays there, visible in the silhouette of moon spots....
A32k - A character who can be seen in the silhouette of moonspots first went to the sun and only then went ...
A32l - On the solar disk, we can see the silhouette of a particular character. Or the character got into th...
A32m - The Moon is called the “Gypsy Sun”...
A33 - The sun looks like a large non-predatory mammal (bull, sheep, pig, antelope, rhino, etc.) or rides i...
A34 - jackal, coyote, or fox are associated with the moon (usually with the appearance of moonspots). ...
A35 - Dark spots on the lunar disc are dirt, blood, paint, traces of beating, burning, scratching, etc. on...
A35a - Moon spots are dirt (manure, clay, ash, dough, dirty cloth) thrown into the face of the Moon/Month a...
A35b - The character tries to cover the moon with resin to make it less bright. ...
A35c - Moon spots are scratches and wounds on the character's face. ...
A36 - The Moon, unlike people, revives or rejuvenates every month; or those who live in the Moon are immor...
A36a - The sun is opposed to humans as immortal to mortals; it is responsible for the mortal nature of huma...
A37 - The character hits the Sun or one of several suns with a weapon or tries to do so. ...
A37a - A small animal (marmot, rabbit, mole, toad, frog, earthworm) or a person who eventually becomes such...
A37b - A small animal (groundhog, rabbit, mole, frog) or a person who eventually turns into such an animal ...
A37c - Person is going to hit the celestial body or deity but his arrow hits an obstacle that screens his a...
A38 - The sun falls into a snare, a trap, and is tied by a rope. ...
A38a - The sun is caught by a noose of a woman's pubic hair. See motif A38. ...
A38b - The sun falls into a trap, a snare. Only a mouse or other small animal can gnaw through a snare and ...
A38c - The sun exchanges or spoils a cape made of animal or bird skins from a boy or girl. As a result, a b...
A38d - Because the Sun has caused damage to the character (spoiled, burned his cape, fur on his skin, etc.)...
A39 - Suns are born and die, and every day something new comes to heaven. ...
A39a - Each of the calendar segments (usually months) that make up the year appears to be a special object ...
A40 - Toad or Frog is the wife (or one of the wives) of the Sun or the Month. Traditions in italics are in...
A41 - Two characters have children (siblings, mothers). One suggests that these children (mothers) be kill...
A42 - The character comes to the Sun, tries to play his role, but intentionally or unwittingly breaks the ...
A42a - Having risen to the sky, the character fails to play the role of the sun and as a result falls or is...
A43 - month or character currently visible on the moon hurries up to the sky. He is missing one leg or sho...
A43a - The character runs away in a hurry and undergoes a metamorphosis, turning into a bird or going up to...
A44 - character fleeing from a chase, offended or suffering on earth asks the Month (Moon) to take him hom...
A45 - A person teases, insults the moon and is punished as a result. ...
A46 - The sun and moon (Rigveda: only the sun) come from or are associated with the eyes of an anthropomor...
A46a - The Sun and Moon (Rig-Veda: the Sun only) are associated with eyes of an anthropomorphic being (the ...
A47 - The sun is born or arises from an egg. ...
B1 - At the beginning of time, two characters compete to create land and/or humans. One is often or becom...
B1a - Anthropomorphic characters agree to divide the tiers of the universe - heaven, earth and the lower w...
B1b - Two female ancestors are involved in the creation process. The actions of one are good, the other is...
B1c - two creators agree that the eldest of them (the main creator) will be the one whose object is in a c...
B1d - Two characters make up the world, one works poorly, the other works well, so parts of the universe (...
B1e - Extracting land from the ocean floor or from the lower world, creating a person from some material, ...
B1f - Two brothers (companions) live In the epoch of the creation. One of them is smart and selfconfident,...
B1g - Four travelling brothers transform the world, annihilating monsters, changig the habits and appearan...
B2a - Earth, a female character (alone or along with a male character), is considered a female creature or...
B2b - The earth feeds on people who are buried there. See B2A motif. ...
B2c - Land in general, landscape elements, or fertile soil arise from the human body and/or land (s) are b...
B2d - Sky (Sun, Thunder, Wind living in the sky) is considered a man and marries a woman Earth; Sky is com...
B2e - Earth or the world as a whole is a male character (alone or along with a female character). ...
B2f - A character can't bury a deceased person without knowing how to do it or finding a place to bury. ...
B2f1 - (While the earth is still absent or liquid), a bird buries its relative in its own head that usually...
B2f2 - The character wears the body of the deceased for a long time, unable to bury it or not knowing how t...
B2g - chameleon walked on the ground before it had hardened. ...
B3 - At first, the land is soft, it is a swamp. ...
B3a - Water is the original element, the dry earth appears later...
B3b - Original earth was small and later increased in size or the fertile soil grew from a small amount of...
B3c - When creating land, the creator goes to rest, the antagonist tries to drown it, drags it to the edge...
B3d - earth is retrieved by a worm, it arises from the worm's excrement, extracted from the worm. ...
B3e - At first, there is only air and water below the sky, or (rarely) a swamp, an undefined abyss. The ch...
B4 - Islands or mainland are caught in the ocean, pulled by a rope. ...
B4a - Fish hit the ground, breaking off islands from the main land mass. ...
B5a - At the beginning of time, female and male characters meet each other and enter into dialogue with ea...
B5b - A woman (alone or with her companion) creates or gives birth not only to people, but also to various...
B5c - There's an old woman and a young woman at the beginning of time A young woman miraculously conceives...
B6 - The first or only remaining man and woman move towards each other, walking around a mountain, pole, ...
B6a - first-ancestor woman gives birth to several eggs. One or two of them lie unchanged for a long time, ...
B7a - Someone owns water or a drink. Another character swallows the hidden, runs away and spits out the hi...
B7b - sea (flood, river) flows out of a small container. ...
B7c - Fresh water, which its sole owner hides in a vessel or pond, is sprayed all over the world. ...
B7d - Water pours out of a broken bone, flooding the ground. ...
B8 - The frog hides the water (usually drinks the lake, the river). Thanks to another character, water re...
B9 - The tree trunk contains a huge amount of water or the tree turns into water. ...
B10 - The character drinks the lake or all the water in the world, or the only water in his stomach. They ...
B11a - mammoth, presented as an underground fish-like creature, creates a rugged terrain on undried land an...
B12 - The riverbed follows the path of a snake, fish, dragon, crab; the river arises from parts of the sna...
B13a - stream of water (with a predator in the water) follows the character who is trying to escape from it...
B14 - The character creates rapids on the river. ...
B15 - The river flows out of the female body. ...
B16a - The sea is formed from urine or blood. ...
B16b - sea is salty because the wolverine or fox swam in it or urinated in it. ...
B16c - The magic mill was ordered to grind salt, but was not commanded to stop. The mill sinks in the sea, ...
B17 - Darkness is a special object that can be carried and transferred (usually brought from the original ...
B18 - Day light (also warmth, the sun, the moon) is kept as a particular object in a container, under a co...
B19 - Until night fell, people couldn't make love in peace. ...
B20 - People go up to heaven to hunt, fish, or collect honey; don't give honey, fish, or good meat to the ...
B21 - People go up the tree to hunt, fish, or collect honey. The tree has fallen down, people fall down an...
B22 - character left under the tree is offended by those who climb the tree up (they usually don't share f...
B22a - Boys eat fruit when they climb a tree, refuse to plant the tapiru, who tries to kill the boys. ...
B23 - The Divine forbids making a fire for cooking and punishes those who violate the ban. ...
B24 - People who come into conflict or break the ban turn into wild boars or bakers. ...
B24a - After a character surrounds a group of people with a ring of feathers or throws feathers into their ...
B25 - Characters who climb a tree or climb up a vine and then fall turn into wild pigs or other commercial...
B26 - The person following wild animals (temporarily) becomes one of them or their owner, or lives with an...
B27 - Characters think about which object or creature are best for them to become, and when they make a ch...
B27a - Persons ponders over what object, feature, or creature it would be appropriate for them to turn. Whe...
B27b - Persons ponders over what object, feature, or creature it would be appropriate for them to turn. Whe...
B28 - Traveling from one area to another, the character consistently turns people into birds and animals, ...
B28a - A character nailed to the ground with a rod has been moved to the edge of the world and is associate...
B28b - The inhabitants of the area where the hero finds himself are afraid of creatures that are tools, ute...
B28c - Lice grab a person and drag him into the sea. ...
B28d - Without understanding who is in front of them, the characters respond to the wandering Transformer t...
B28d1 - Without understanding who is in front of him, the man promises to kill the Transformer. He turns his...
B28e - month (alone or together with the Sun) turns the original “wrong” world into the one in which pe...
B29 - People turn into animals, birds or stones, living beings acquire their current characteristics at a ...
B30a - Fish comes from the remains of a murdered person or creature. At first, it is concentrated in one pl...
B30b - Animals arise from the remains of a murdered person. ...
B31 - A woman (usually after a conflict with a man or remaining alone) or a man and a woman (married coupl...
B32 - As a result of conflict with husbands, women turn into fish. ...
B32a - Enemies of a person who rides a ship turn into seals or dolphins...
B33 - There is a female character who embodies the wind or is considered the mother or mistress of the win...
B33a - Having decided that it is (or that it will soon be) warm, the character believes that winter is over...
B33a1 - A person (animal, bird) teases, insults March or another calendar month and is punished as a result....
B33b - On the border between winter and spring, a bird (usually a thrush) flies prematurely into the cold a...
B33c - A month on the border of winter and spring (usually March) takes (rarely: buys, steals) from the nei...
B33d - old woman embodies winter, is associated with snow, and/or on the border of winter and spring (autum...
B33d1 - In folk narratives days of week (usually Friday and Wednesday) are (female) persons of more or less ...
B33e - The last cold month regrets that it did not come sooner or that it is too short. In that case, he wo...
B33e1 - The cold, which is never worse, is said to freeze the embryo in the womb. ...
B33f - A character performs actions that determine the change in dark and daylight hours. It's always about...
B33f1 - By performing certain actions, the (old) woman determines the daily cycle. ...
B33f2 - At night, the fire fades away, and the hero goes in search of it. On his way, he ties up an old woma...
B33g - Horsemen or horses represent stars or different periods of the day. ...
B33h - The male Sun has the mother who shares with him his dwelling place...
B34 - After the vessel is opened at night, a person caught in darkness turns into a bird or animal. ...
B35 - The bear hurriedly puts his left moccasin on his right leg and vice versa, so the clubfoot. ...
B35a - The tree asks him not to cut down, fulfills the person's wishes. When they go beyond reason, a tree ...
B36 - The integrity of a creature (rarely: an object) is broken. As a result, various living beings acquir...
B36a - Birds or fish obtain their colors after smearing themselves with liquids extracted from the body of ...
B36b - Birds find their voices by pecking a large reptile, smeared in liquids that have leaked out of its b...
B36c - Animals get meat, fat, melted from a creature or appeared differently. Some got a lot, others stayed...
B37 - The character paints two or more different birds (less often fish), they paint each other, smear in ...
B38 - The character paints birds or animals, or they paint each other. This is not happening as intended. ...
B38a - The two birds agree to paint each other. One of them (usually due to her inappropriate behavior) doe...
B38b - Raven and Loon paint each other. ...
B38c - The character kicks a loon or other waterfowl. Since then, she has a flattened tail and has difficul...
B38d - Raven and the Owl paint each other. ...
B38e - bird with white or bright plumage refuses to marry a bird with dark plumage after learning that the ...
B39 - insect or character who later becomes an insect knows where food (cultivated plants) or water is loc...
B40 - hare or rabbit is a false deer, a former deer, a deer's brother, a former or failed horn owner, its ...
B40a - Today, a hornless animal loses its horns or is deprived of the opportunity to obtain them. See motif...
B40b - The horse changes with the Cow, gives off horns and/or gets teeth. ...
B41 - Due to the fact that the dog disseminated some information, argued with the owners, spoke at the wro...
B41a - The dog or other domestic animal speaks aloud about those details of its masters' life that they wou...
B42 - Hunters, their dogs, and animals running away or killed can be seen in the sky in the form of stars ...
B42a - Hunters drive a bear across the sky and kill them in August-October. The bear's blood or fat falls t...
B42b - In the cosmic hunt tale the game pursued by the hunters is an ungulate (elk, deer, mountain sheep, e...
B42c - In the space hunt plot, the object of persecution is a bear. See B42 and B42P motifs. ...
B42d - In the space hunt plot, the object of persecution is a bear. See motif B42. ...
B42e - In the space hunt plot, the object of persecution is Nanda (Rhea americana, a large flightless bird)...
B42f - The Big Dipper (whole or just a bucket) is identified with a large ungulates (moose, deer, mountain ...
B42g - Ursus major (seven stars or only four stars of a dipper) is identified with the game animal or anmia...
B42h - Orion's belt is game; another star or group of stars within or outside Orion is a hunter. ...
B42h1 - In the plot of space hunting, one of the astral objects is identified with an arrow or bullet, empha...
B42i - Cassiopeia is associated with deer or moose. ...
B42k - In stories about space hunting, the object of persecution or hunters is identified with the Pleiades...
B42l - stars of the Big Dipper bucket handle are hunters, the bucket itself is a bear, an elk, or a meat ba...
B42m - One of the sky hunters (the second star of the Big Dipper bucket handle) carries a bowler hat (a wea...
B42m1 - Each of the three (rarely: four) hunters who chase moose and turn into stars is of a special nationa...
B42m2 - Big Dipper bucket handle stars are three hunters who chase animals. Each has a special character (on...
B42mn - Only one character (not a few) drives across the sky a beast (an elk or a bear) associated with one ...
B42n - Orion constellation is identified with a man, usually a giant, warrior, hunter. ...
B42o - A particular constellation appears to be a person who has been hit on the back or injured in the bac...
B42o1 - The Big Dipper is identified with a fishing marten (fisher, <i>mustela</i> <i>pennati</i>). ...
B42p - The Big Dipper is identified with the bear. ...
B42q - The Big Bear is a chariot, a wagon. ...
B42r - Three stars of the Belt of Orion are three persons or animals who pursue each other...
B42s - The Big Dipper or the North Star is a small animal (ermine, marten, forest marmot) or anthropomorphi...
B42t - All seven stars of the Ursa Major (not just the bucket stars) are considered to be the figure of an ...
B43 - Parts of the body of the primeval person or creature are transformed into different elements of the ...
B43a - The character is made from many materials or objects. ...
B44a - Characters argue about the number of discrete units of time that determine the length of a certain p...
B44b - The number and/or nature of the alternation of fingers, claws, feathers, coats, stripes on animal sk...
B44c - The characters argue about whether the earth is dark or light, cold or warm. See motif B44. ...
B44d - Night and day alternate because the dead animal was black and white, spotted. ...
B44e - First ancestors (usually birds or animals) argue with each other about the length of time in a calen...
B44f - In a debate about whether the world should be light, the fox is on the side of the world (almost alw...
B44f1 - In a debate about whether the world should be light (warm), the bear is on the side of darkness (and...
B45 - The appearance of a warm (bright, satisfying) or cold (hungry, dark) time is associated with the mar...
B45b - A bull or cow is the epitome of cold, the reason why winter is cold. ...
B46 - Each of the seven stars of the Ursa Major is an adult male. ...
B46a - One of the stars of the Pleiades was separated from the others (usually kidnapped by the stars of th...
B46a1 - The stars of the Ursa Major are thieves or robbers. ...
B46b - Each of the seven main stars of Ursa Major is a separate female character. {Included in the online d...
B46c - Each of the Ursa Major stars is a separate character (humans or animals). ...
B46d - Men, each superior to others in a particular art, turn into stars. ...
B47 - Pleiades or another group of stars have once appeared or are regularly the cause of extreme cold. (T...
B47a - A cow steps on the Pleiades stars on earth, which were demonic creatures. Some of the stars slipped ...
B48 - Harmless and herbivores were or could become dangerous predators. ...
B48a - Animals, birds, or fish have internal organs or muscles that were originally parts of the body of ot...
B48b - The animals now being hunted contain a piece of human flesh left over from their anthropomorphic app...
B48c - In the head of a pike there are (visible) tools that people use. ...
B48d - People or objects swallowed by a pike become part of its body, usually turning into bones in the pik...
B49 - Animals of a certain species (Toraj has a human) do not hear or understand instructions or questions...
B49a - Mighty animals could have many young, but now they only give birth to one in a few years. ...
B49b - Initially cow had more teats than now...
B50 - A dangerous character wants to ask a bloodsucker insect where it drank blood or whose blood (flesh) ...
B51 - A blood-sucking insect does not admit to the thunder that it drank people's blood. See motif B50. ...
B51a - snake is the enemy of the swallow (usually because the swallow prevents the snake from destroying pe...
B52a - Flying above the world, a bird (usually a vulture) flaps its wings to dry the ground after a flood o...
B52b - The character regurgitates the hidden (usually in his mouth) land, thereby creating mountains, swamp...
B52c - When created, the earth and sky were of different sizes. The earth was squeezed, so mountains appear...
B53 - character's huge genitals are cut off (usually cut to pieces), discarded, turning into snakes or oth...
B54 - Chips, branches or pieces of bark that fall or are thrown into the water turn into fish and aquatic ...
B55 - Fish grow on tree branches or tree leaves turn into fish. ...
B56 - crocodile/Cayman is left without a tongue, swallowing or losing the fire (which it used to know); so...
B57 - Blood from a killed or injured person or animal turns red on the sky or vegetation (the origin of da...
B57a - Seeing the sky covered, the character realizes that another person's blood has been shed, or that an...
B58 - After the first ancestors steal the original fire, a partrige-sized forest bird (Penelope sp.; Anhim...
B59 - A group of people (usually children, siblings) play, dance, rise to the sky and turn into the Pleiad...
B60 - Children come into conflict with their parents over food, clothing, attention claimed and denied by ...
B61 - mole had to hold the fallen sky and the sun. Usually, since then, his paw (arm) has been sprained ba...
B62 - A person believes that vultures live better than humans, changing their appearance with a vulture. A...
B63 - Kids lie to their mothers like they're working in the fields. When the deception is discovered, they...
B64 - bones in the body of fish are the result of a fight, battle, military expedition; these are arrows p...
B64a - Fish and poultry fight (usually by firing arrows at each other). Since then, many small bones and/or...
B64b - Two types of fish fire arrows at each other. Since then, there have been many small bones in the fis...
B64c - Fish, along with other terrestrial inhabitants, are at war against the inhabitants of the sky. When ...
B64d - Certain bones in the body of living beings (usually birds and fish) are arrows fired at them. ...
B65 - Out of mischief, the character imitates other human animals. As a result, his womb is ripped apart, ...
B66 - Characters climb to the sky on a rope or chain of arrows; falling to the ground, it turns into fores...
B67 - A fallen tree and (or) a stump from it turn into a mountain (mountain range) or rocks. (Usually, fru...
B68 - The huge hazel grouse became small - usually torn to pieces that turned into current hazel grouses. ...
B68a - Birds quarrel and claiming high status cripples the weak. For this, others tell her to carry the inj...
B68b - (Animal) person who tried to scare the God (people) with his/its, behavior, strange look or sudden a...
B69 - Wanting to thank or punish a small rodent (chipmunk, groundhog, squirrel), the character makes him s...
B69a - A chipmunk or similar animal (weasel, pika) argues with another animal character (bear, elk, puma, s...
B69b - Wanting to thank or punish the frog, the character runs his hand or paw down its back, and since the...
B70 - A person beats hares, foxes, and other small animals (one or many) that are defenseless (usually loc...
B71 - The Northern Lights are people who play, dance, sit by the fire, fight or run around with torches. ...
B72 - Since children do not give water to their mother, she turns into a bird (usually a cuckoo) and flies...
B72a - The mother (stepmother, foster father) does not give food to the girl or (less commonly) the boy. Th...
B72b - A girl (rarely a boy) turns into a bird and flies away after her mother (father, teacher) does not g...
B72c - Children run after their mother, injure themselves, their blood stains plants, the earth, and the ev...
B72d - A woman makes her own wings (beak, tail) from clothing accessories and turns into a bird or flying s...
B73 - The character turns into a cuckoo. This happens so fast that one leg remains unbraided or one braid ...
B73a - girl (a boy, a girl with a brother; two little brothers) searches for a missing horse, cow, sheep an...
B73b - Two teenagers or young people look for each other, resonate (or one of them calls the other): a girl...
B74 - capercaillie or grouse's eyes turned red with tears. ...
B74a - The character is sewn red rags (threads, eyelids red) to his eyes or he does it himself. He sees eve...
B74b - owl is forced to part with the moon and now screams when it sees the moon. It is usually told how th...
B75a - You can still hear the voice of a character who lived in the era of creation (most often a woman who...
B75b - creaking or crackling of trees is the voice of a transformed character. ...
B75b1 - The character shoves his mother-in-law or wife into the hollow, she turns into a creak of trees or a...
B75c - The sound of the surf or water on the rapids has been heard since creation. ...
B75d - The sound of leaves or grass shaken by the wind has been heard since creation. ...
B76 - sea waves instantly petrified, forming a land with mountain ranges on it. ...
B77 - The sky was near the ground, then it rose. ...
B77a - One or more anthropomorphic characters move the sky away from the ground. See motif B77. ...
B77b - The sky moved away and/or people's connection with the deity ceased after the sky or heavenly deity ...
B77b1 - The sky moved away and/or people's connection with the deity ceased after the sky or heavenly deity ...
B77b2 - The sky moved away and/or people's connection with the deity ceased after the sky or heavenly deity ...
B77c - snake-shaped creature pushes the sky away from the ground. See motif B77. ...
B78 - When a character shakes off (or shakes clothes, plucks birds, etc.), snow falls from his hair, feath...
B79 - In the oceans or in the world's abyss, the earth, sky, stars, and creator gods emerge from eggs (egg...
B79a - At the beginning of time, a bird flies, lays an egg or eggs, from which various objects or creatures...
B79a1 - At the beginning of time, a bird flies and throws pieces of firmament into the water, from which the...
B80 - The creation process involves measuring the size of the earth or the world as a whole. ...
B81 - The creator and his opponent are considering whether to give the dog the ability to shoot (with a bo...
B82 - raven (less commonly another vulture bird, or another now black bird the size of a crow) was first w...
B83 - The character tries to pick up a small object or creature that, or that turns out to be gigantic and...
B84 - After a demonic person (usually a woman chasing a hero) dies, his flesh turns into objects found on ...
B85 - The wind blows too much and is being forced to calm down. ...
B85a - The wind is not blowing properly, people can't hunt or fish. After the hero defeats the Wind, it bec...
B85b - The wind has been or is in a small container, released from it or leaves it from time to time. ...
B86 - To get to the sky (moon, star, sun), people build a staircase or tower consisting of separate module...
B87 - Alcor (the faint star next to the second star of the Big Dipper bucket handle) stands out as a separ...
B87a - Alcor (the dim star next to the second star of the Big Dipper bucket handle) is a dog. ...
B87b - The Big Bear is a wagon in which a wolf or bear is harnessed. Usually, the shape of the bucket handl...
B87c - Alcor (the weak star next to the second star of the Big Dipper bucket handle) is a rider and driver....
B88 - All of a man's children die. He asks God to explain why he suffers so much. ...
B89 - owl (Owl) was the main bird, pretended to be or did not perform well in choosing the head of birds; ...
B90 - There is an anthropomorphic patron, owner, or mistress of wolves; he usually gives instructions to w...
B91 - The snail had (sharpest) eyes. The other character borrows them and doesn't give them back. ...
B91a - A blind character asks another to lend his eyes or change eyes, and leaves his eyes to himself. ...
B92 - character who has crumbled into small pieces, whose body is firm, turns into flints or other hard st...
B93 - Once a year or every few years, celestials or messengers of the deity seen among the stars meet. ...
B93a - Once a year, birds form a bridge across a heavenly river from their bodies. Usually, the feathers on...
B94 - Trees (and animals) used to talk, asking them not to cut or kill them. ...
B95 - The appearance of the sphincter or buttocks is due to the fact that a character burned his ass. ...
B96 - chasing humans, a monstrous creature falls into the water, turns into a commercial fish or a commerc...
B97 - The character rewards (rarely punishes) a bird living by the water, determining its current appearan...
B97a - strip of light or dark feathers (rarely: wool) on the neck of a bird (animal) is its necklace (handk...
B98 - Bat tries to join animals and birds, or is excluded from both. ...
B98a - bat becomes an outcast from other creatures (usually after trying to join animals or birds). ...
B98b - The Bat comes into conflict with other creatures over someone's death or funeral. ...
B98c - The heavenly deity could cure the bat's mother or child, but failed to do so, and they died. ...
B99 - person left on a tree turns into an insect nest. ...
B100 - In the past or in a distant country, sleep was not known; a character embodies or owns a dream; slee...
B101 - When angry with a birch tree, the character hits or cuts it, the stripes on the bark are still there...
B102 - Clouds are formed from smoke rising from the ground. ...
B102a - Clouds are associated with cattle, especially in cows (and rain is their milk). ...
B103 - The character thinks that since dogwood blooms earlier than other fruit trees, its fruits will ripen...
B104 - A guest came, the owner hid the chicken, and when he wanted to eat it, it turned out that it turned ...
B104a - The son was going to eat meat (chicken). At this time, the father came and, in order not to share wi...
B104b - A woman does not want to share bread with God who came to her in guise of a poor man and is transfor...
B105 - father-in-law or mother-in-law finds her daughter-in-law in a position she is ashamed of (simple-hai...
B106 - First the heavenly rooster sings, only then the earthly rooster sings. ...
B107 - During a (world) fire, the oyster burns, so the oyster shells are black. ...
B108 - anthropomorphic character broken into pieces turns into snow. ...
B109 - A person acquires hair and becomes a bear (the origin of bears). ...
B109a - Originally, a (human-) bear lived in the sky, then descended to earth (and became a bear). ...
B110 - A character who is dragged on the ground or who is running falls apart or hits the ground with diffe...
B110a - A character who is dragged on the ground or falls from the sky turns into atmospheric phenomena. ...
B111 - Bees or wasps fly out of the corpse or body of a large animal (lion, bull) (usually the episode expl...
B112 - The character calls to help do the work (usually transporting property or provisions across the rive...
B113 - Due to certain events from the time of creation, women have a cold ass, while men have knees (or vic...
B114 - A woman or man (usually old people) becomes anteaters (the origin of anteaters). ...
B115 - Conifers and some other trees and shrubs (shrubs) became evergreen after they were accidentally spil...
B115a - Angry at the carpenters, the character (St. Peter) asks another (Christ) to make knots in wood or br...
B116 - The first book (writing, important document) is eaten by an animal or person. (In terms of European ...
B116a - A person or animal eats a sacred book or its remnants. During the ritual, this knowledge is actualiz...
B116b - A book containing sacred knowledge ends up in the water at a crossing or otherwise gets wet. After t...
B116c - In the past, people had writing and knowledge, but they were lost or the people missed the opportuni...
B117 - document issued to animals (usually dogs) was lost due to the cat's fault (swallowed by a cat, burne...
B118 - Person who was unable to ascend to the sky or had returned from the sky to the earth turned into the...
B119 - A woman of an inhuman nature agrees to live with a man, but leaves him after learning about his real...
B120 - There are creatures that sleep in the winter and have frozen snot hanging from their noses. (The mot...
B121 - A small bird carries pebbles and sticks while trying to cover the sea. ...
B122 - Birds (usually cranes/storks or geese) take children to another world or bring them from there. ...
B123 - A fly sits on the chest of the crucified Jesus. Stalkers who intend to drive a nail into the heart d...
B124 - Since a piece of flesh was torn off from somebody’s foot, there is a depression beteen toes and he...
B125 - During the time of creation particular species of animals (rare: plants) exchanged certain organs or...
B125a - The nightingale (more rare somebody else) borrows the blindwoms’s eye and does not return them, th...
B125b - Going to the feast, party, etc., animal person borrows from another one a part of the body that must...
C1 - In the past, there has been or will be a catastrophic shift in the layers of the universe. Among the...
C2 - The inhabitants of the middle world are (partly) destroyed (or will be destroyed) once by fire or dr...
C2a - Two characters meet a woodpecker and receive an object from him, which causes the ground to ignite. ...
C2b - The Sun and the Month fall into a fire. The strong and intelligent Sun is saved, the weak and stupid...
C3 - serpent (eel, frog) saved Noah's ark by plugging a hole in it with its body. ...
C4 - During a flood or at the beginning of time, fruits, seeds, or other objects fall into the water one ...
C5a - bird, various birds, or people who then turn into birds are sent to explore the earth (whether it is...
C5b - After a global catastrophe or when creating land, animals run around, making the earth big, reportin...
C6 - Characters dive to the bottom to get an item. ...
C6a - The desired object is brought from the bottom (or from the lower world) or destroyed by a turtle, to...
C6b - The desired object comes from the bottom of a muskrat, beaver or nutria. See motive C6. ...
C6c - A bird brings the desired object from the bottom or dives to the bottom. See motive C6. ...
C6c1 - Two or more different birds (often a loon and a duck) dive successively to get the ground from the b...
C6d - Land (land) is formed from a small amount of solid matter (silt, sand, clay, mud) that characters ex...
C6e - crustacean pulls the earth from under the water or from the lower world. ...
C6f - The characters are trying to get a submerged living creature or part of its body from under the wate...
C6g - earth is brought from the bottom and/or scattered across the water by a boar. See motive C6. ...
C6h - insect brings the earth (from the bottom of the sea or from somewhere far away). ...
C6i - zoomorphic character returns from the lower world, smeared with mud. It is shaken off or dirt is scr...
C6j - The acquiring of the earth from the sea bottom or from the lower world, the creation of humans and a...
C7 - Initially or after a flood, an earthen or stone barrier, the body of a character or creature prevent...
C8 - At the beginning of time or after the death of other people, brother and sister (mother and son, fat...
C8a - Being alone and without other partners, brother and sister make it possible to marry each other by t...
C8a1 - Being alone and without other marrying partners, brother and sister make it possible to marry each o...
C8a2 - lion (often a stone lion) helps survive the flood. ...
C8b - Brother and sister (or mother and son) find themselves alone, without marital partners. Both of them...
C8c - After a global catastrophe, at the beginning of time, or when a new land is settled, a woman and her...
C9a - During a flood or when crossing a river those people who drown (or those who survive) turn into toad...
C10 - During a flood, some birds or animals escape on a mountain, in a tree, in a boat, or by clinging to ...
C10a - During the flood, some birds escape by clinging to the sky with their beaks. Wed. A2211.7 (“In a f...
C11 - A magically powerful father destroys people (all or many) who have hurt or harmed his son. ...
C12a - dog warns of an impending global flood or fire, advises what to do. ...
C12b - All people or individual ethnic groups, families are considered descendants of a dog (with which a m...
C13 - During or before the onset of a global catastrophe (flood, darkness) or (surui) at night, utensils a...
C14 - During or before a global catastrophe (flood, darkness), animals or monsters attack people. ...
C15 - A monstrous jaguar (puma) is locked in a cave or tree trunk. ...
C16 - In addition to human desire, processed skins, tools, and (meat) food (again) turn into (those) anima...
C16a - An offended owner of animals or fish takes them away and food supplies. See H32A motif. ...
C17 - men of the ancestral community kill most people and/or themselves at the stake or in a fire pit. ...
C18 - A character owns, embodies, or steals values; prevents other people from using them. In order to obt...
C18a - The hidden sun lures the rooster. ...
C19 - first ancestors find the sun (daylight) that was missing, hidden, or stolen. See motive C18. For sta...
C19a - The character (except Quileut: Raven) turns into a child, asks for and receives heavenly bodies to p...
C22 - During a severe drought or global fire, birds and animals are sent to thunders living on the edge of...
C23 - growth or fall of a giant tree determines the state of the sky with its stars (the tree blocks the s...
C24 - Someone gnaws or cuts the support of heaven or earth; some creatures try to break the barrier that s...
C25a - In the sky, on the moon, somewhere outside our world, a character (usually an old woman) is making s...
C25b - In the sky, on the moon (rarely in the sun), somewhere outside our world, a character is spinning, w...
C25c - A change in the configuration of a constellation (usually Ursa Major) or its disappearance from the ...
C26 - Monsters are ready to invade our world from another, but a powerful character protects people from i...
C27 - A monster breaks the ice on a river or lake. Usually people walk on ice, see a protruding horn (fin)...
C28 - A demonic character takes possession of a value without which another character (and humans) will di...
C29 - People (God) learn a secret by overhearing (peeking) a character talking to himself or relatives (or...
C30a - A person borrows money on the condition that if he does not return by a certain date, he will have t...
C30b - In response to claims from an animal or spirit, a person suggests that he remove its traces from the...
C30c - man promises to drink the sea, but at the last moment he says that his opponent must first separate ...
C30d - Person gives his permission to pollute his place with excrements but only on condition that not a dr...
C31 - hedgehog is wiser or smarter than all gods and animals; he has knowledge that is vital to human exis...
C31a - According to an agreement or promise, the owner (mistress) of the lower world receives or should rec...
C31b - owl is smarter and wiser than other living beings. ...
C31c - bat is smarter and wiser than other living beings. ...
C32 - Demonic characters will make a ship out of nail scraps. ...
C32c - Nails (and hair) are of particular importance to a person's fate, soul, or the world as a whole. (Co...
C33 - The God-fighter has been chained to a rock or pole for centuries. ...
C33a - For a year, someone tries to cut or break the chain or rope that holds him or another character. On ...
C33a1 - Every day a predator bird comes to peck inner organs of the enchained man. During the day the organs...
C33b - The death of people of the first race is associated with the appearance of wind ...
C34 - The flood begins after people kill (offend, maim) a (usually aquatic) creature. ...
C34a - supernatural character goes fishing with people or lives on the sand by the river; he is buried in t...
C35 - It becomes known that if characters who represent natural phenomena and parts of the universe get ma...
C35a - zoomorphic character gives wise advice regarding the state of the Sun. The Council has been accepted...
C35b - A frog (toad) prevents more than one sun from shining in the sky. ...
C36 - gods and their powerful opponents face a decisive battle that changes the world's destinies. See Bra...
C37 - sloth causes a global catastrophe or saves people from it. ...
C38 - Characters from the time of creation say that real people are coming soon, so we need to do this and...
C39 - When the sky split or partially collapsed, it was repaired. ...
C39a - A hole in the sky or a crack in the ground has been covered with a piece of ice, so it's cold in the...
C40 - At first, stones fell from the sky and crushed people. ...
C41 - At first, the sky doesn't have a specific color. After a character hangs cloth on him or does other ...
D1 - A woman (usually an elderly woman) is the epitome of fire, alone or along with her husband, the mast...
D1a - A girl marries a man whose mother is fire. ...
D1a1 - For the fact that a woman offended the fire, its mistress takes her child away from her. ...
D1a2 - The house of the person who insulted the fire burns down, but the property or the child of another p...
D1a3 - A man marries a woman who is fire. She is offended, or her husband does not like her, her marriage f...
D1a4 - Two fires from different dwellings meet each other and chat...
D1b - A man is the master or embodiment of fire (alone or along with a fire woman). ...
D2 - A woman gives birth to a son who is very hot. ...
D2a - A woman gives birth to a son who is the embodiment of fire or sun, and dies from burns. ...
D4a - The fire was stolen from the original owner, returned to people from the kidnapper, or (the motive f...
D4a1 - Person who incarnates or owns the fire hides himself or herself or is hidden. To return or to get he...
D4aa - Night butterflies are trying to carry away the fire that humans own. ...
D4b - who steal or ask for fire and/or people who receive fire are punished by the deity. ...
D4c - The characters get the warmer months from its original owners. ...
D4c1 - Animal people are coming to steal summer from its owners. One of the moose or caribou who comes in t...
D4d - opossum makes fire for humans. See D4A motif. ...
D4e - The thief or giver of fire, light, or sun is a coyote or fox (marked in square brackets). See motive...
D4e1 - The thief or giver of fire, light or sun is a dog. See motive 4A. ...
D4f - Once in a fire, a beaver (in North America) or a fish (in South America) scatters and/or carries fir...
D4g - hummingbird kidnaps, finds, or spreads fire. See D4A motif. ...
D4h - The swallow makes fire for people. See D4A motif. ...
D4h1 - A small songbird (robin, queen, wren) makes fire for people. ...
D4i - beaver makes fire for humans. See D4A motif. ...
D4j - A kidnapper, kidnapper, or fireman is a rabbit, hare, or (ofie) guinea pig. See D4A motif. ...
D4k - A deer makes fire for humans. See D4A motif. ...
D4l - The first fire is brought to earth from heaven; the first ancestors go to heaven, bringing fire or w...
D4m - The kidnapper comes to the owners of fire or light. They're feasting or dancing. He joins them, take...
D4n - A boy or (by a kutene) woman cries, demanding the missing element - summer, fire, rain. See D4A moti...
D4o - To steal fire from its owner, the character pretends to be wet, chilled, and after receiving permiss...
D4p - parrot makes fire for humans. See D4A motif. Australian data is not taken into account, as the gener...
D4q - fly rubs its paws and produces fire. ...
D5 - The original owner or inventor (but not embodiment) of fire is a female character. ...
D5a - The first fire is hidden in a woman's genitals or anus. See motive D5. ...
D6a - Crocodile/Cayman is the temporary or original owner of fire or lightning. ...
D6b - The burned person turns into a crocodile/caiman. ...
D7 - frog or toad owns the first fire, steals it from the original owner, tries to extinguish it or save ...
D7a - Spider possesses the fire or steals it from original owner (texts in which spider acts together with...
D8 - The first fire (or summer) was stolen from a large predator - a lion or leopard in Africa, a tiger i...
D9 - raven or other large dark-colored feathered vulture is the owner, incarnation, spouse, earner or thi...
D10 - A couple of people are the embodiment of a tool for making fire. ...
D11 - Before fire became known, food was cooked by warming it with your body (usually under your arm); the...
D12 - People in the past, or people from a faraway country, cooked in the sun; or the fire owner lies that...
D12a - People use the heat of the sun to cook because they are close to its source. ...
D13c - Two companions or brothers live together. The elder has a wife he hides. To discover her, the younge...
D13d - One character tries to make him laugh to find another hiding somewhere in the house. ...
D13e - Hunters die because they laughed at a killed (and animated) animal. ...
D13f - Laughter causes fire or sun to appear or spread. Usually, the owner of a fire or sun loses it after ...
D13g - When a character starts laughing, people see his or her scary mouth (lots of teeth, a man on his tee...
D13h - A person who enters the world of the dead should not laugh. ...
D13hh - When visiting another world, a person should not laugh or be surprised to see strange things. The pe...
D13i - The character makes the audience laugh to identify the deceiver and thief by a broken tooth. He laug...
D13i1 - The character's features can be determined by his teeth. Laughing and showing his teeth, the charact...
E1a - The first people are made of fragile materials (clay, wax, fire, honey, etc.) and are not viable. ...
E1a1 - deity or ancestor sculpts people from clay. Some of the figures are wet, so there are cripples among...
E1b - Certain person is made of improper material and proves to be short-lived or unfit for fulfilling his...
E1b1 - A person who marries an unusual girl is warned that she should not do a specific job or eat certain ...
E1c - A person is made from human excrement or (inupiate) from cadal. ...
E1d - The (first) boat is made of obviously unusable material. ...
E1e - The son of the first human couple first looks like a small plant that grew out of the ground of a st...
E2 - When creating people, the creator does not immediately achieve perfection. The first versions of the...
E3 - After the destruction of the previous world, new people (rarely: new land) are made from the remains...
E4 - From cuticles or dirt that has come off the skin, the character creates land, people, or other creat...
E5 - God makes man out of clay. He must wait until it dries, but tries to get up earlier. ...
E5a - The first people (either only the first men or the first women) are not created by the demiurge, but...
E5aa - The first people grew out of the ground like trees, grass, mushrooms. ...
E5b - The first person or first human couple comes out of the ground or from a small object on its surface...
E5c - The first humans or ancestor deities descend to earth from heaven. ...
E5d - The first people to be on the ground and concentrated within a confined space are threatened by a pr...
E5e - People or animals come out of the ground or come down from the sky. The two-headed next one gets stu...
E6 - When a woman of childbearing age (she has her period, has a miscarriage, is pregnant, has a baby, or...
E6a - People go to their current habitat through a (ice-covered) reservoir, some remain on the other side ...
E7 - The path from one part of the world to another is through a narrow opening. The character gets stuck...
E8 - The first people or the first ancestor's wife are made of wood. ...
E8a - Coconuts picked from a tree or fallen to the ground, or (rarely) leaves, turn into women or people i...
E9 - The character (usually a woman) hides in the form (inside) of an animal (bird, plant, object) that i...
E9a - A man marries a fox woman. See motive E9. ...
E9aa - A man searches for a missing woman, who is a fox by nature, and comes to the hole where she disappea...
E9b - The unknown owner is an aquatic creature (water turtle, snail, mollusk). See motive E9. ...
E9c - A person converges with a woman who may take the form of a large herbivorous mammal or emerge from i...
E9d - A magical wife first looks like a dog or puppy. See motive E9. ...
E9e - The young man receives a puppy, dog skin, frog, fruit, etc. from supernatural creatures. Upon return...
E9f - The magic wife is a parrot. See E9 and K25 motifs. ...
E9g - The magic wife is a vulture. See E9 and K25 motifs. ...
E9h - The magical wife (husband; rarely: the girl is the hero's patroness) takes the form of a dove, a tur...
E9i1 - A man marries supernatural woman who is a swan...
E9i2 - A man marries supernatural woman who is a duck...
E9i3 - A man marries supernatural woman who is a goose...
E9i4 - A man marries supernatural woman who is a (white) crane...
E9j - A person marries a monkey who takes the form of a woman, or a person hides a woman and pretends that...
E9k - husband or wife is the epitome of honey or a human bee. ...
E9l - Man marries mouse-woman...
E9m - Man marries a polar bear or grizzly who becomes a woman or a woman who becomes a bear...
E9n - Man marries a seal, dolphin or porpous who takes guise of a woman and lives with her in the human wo...
E9o - Man marries frog- or toad-woman...
E10 - Characters who look like animals (usually puppies) or monsters become children of a woman or spouse ...
E11 - A future family member discovers or stays with a person after an object that defines the character's...
E12 - The character draws an object or creature on the sand (ash), which comes to life. ...
E13 - The shamanic tambourine is compared or associated with a lake. ...
E13a - People take ritual objects out of the underwater world or return them to this world. ...
E14 - The rituals are derived from the spirits of the dead. ...
E14a - People kill demons, examine their bodies, make ritual costumes and masks to reproduce the appearance...
E15 - People learn how to make boats and rowing from birds; a bird or part of its body serves as a model f...
E15a - bow of the boat is modeled on a bird's sternum. See motive E15. ...
E15b - Female birds sew the birch bark cover of the hero's boat. See motive E15. ...
E16 - When rowing with an oar, the character first tries to push off not with a plane, but with an edge. S...
E17 - People get an idea of the ornamentation of vessels, baskets, bodies, etc., or a sign system after so...
E18 - People learn to make or decorate pottery or baskets (usually learn how to draw a pattern) thanks to ...
E19 - Narcotic plants arise from a person's body torn apart by others. ...
E20 - When a person enters the water, the fish dies. ...
E21 - The child catches fish (with poison), or fish venom is released from his body. A fish or a water sna...
E22 - Once inside a creature, the swallowed character learns rituals, songs, ornamental motifs, extracts d...
E23 - It is necessary to throw a handful of fleas or lice at the character; this is the only thing that ma...
E24 - Human joints appear after the first ancestor (or several ancestors) fell from a height, breaking his...
E25 - People learn the art of weaving from a spider or from a person who later becomes a spider; a spider ...
E26 - Fish caught turn into first people or women. (Texts on catching women in human form from the water a...
E27 - Humans arise from droplets of blood from an injured anthropomorphic creature. ...
E28 - People shoot in the Month, his blood is pouring to the ground. ...
E29 - Two characters (usually a coyote and a lizard) argue about whether people's hands should have the sh...
E30 - A man does not have a wife or a husband and uses a wooden ersatz as his spouse. ...
E30a - A man who does not have a wife or a husband uses an ersatz made of wood or other material as his spo...
E30b - A man makes a figure or gets a woman. She comes to life and becomes his wife. ...
E31 - A man makes a wooden doll and acts like it's alive. It doesn't come to life or comes back to life on...
E31a - Several men (women) are involved in saving, creating or reviving a girl (man), or mourn her (his) de...
E31a1 - Three (rarely four or two) men are involved in creating a girl: one carves a figure out of wood, the...
E31a2 - One of several men should get a girl. She or someone else explains that one of the applicants may be...
E31b - Several women take part in the reanimation of a dead man. They argue whose role was crucial and/or w...
E31c - Several men, each with a unique skill, bring a (kidnapped) girl from a distant country. ...
E32 - The first people or the first woman (ancestor, goddess) are born as trees, come out of wood, stump, ...
E33 - People come from grains, seeds, dough. ...
E34 - cannibal has been killed. From his ashes emerge musical instruments that are taboo for women, used i...
E35 - The first people or creatures created by the Creator's competitor were not finished, not entirely an...
E36 - The human body was or could be covered with a protective layer (bone, rarely hair), but it has been ...
E36a - Nails are constantly growing or the human body is covered with a hard crust only on the nails, becau...
E37 - The creator collects many sticks, feathers, reeds, etc., turns them into people (either people of bo...
E38a - A woman gives birth to a pumpkin, a bag, a bag of eggs, a piece of meat. What is born is cut, choppe...
E38b - After a global catastrophe or at the beginning of time, a pumpkin appears on earth, and people's anc...
E38c - The first people are dumb and spoke after being hit, laughed, etc....
E39 - The child of a pig or boar is a woman or man - the ancestor of a certain group of people. ...
E39a - The child of a pig or boar is a woman or man - the ancestor of a certain group of people. ...
E40 - The first people have their nostrils set upwards, and it rains there. ...
E41 - A skilled blacksmith, in the form of a special gift, can take the hot iron in the furnace with his b...
E41a - The first mites were made as a result of observation of animals (a dog's crossed legs, two snakes, s...
F1 - The first woman, female deity, or female animals were first male (male), whose sex was then changed....
F2 - A baby is born from a tumor on the character's body, either placed there for a while, or comes from ...
F3 - A man accidentally eats a magic remedy designed for a woman to become pregnant and gives birth to a ...
F3a - A man carries a child like a woman. ...
F4 - At the beginning of time, the hero or people even conceived children not through sexual contact, but...
F5 - The character does not want or cannot give all applicants his daughters to marry and turns various a...
F5a - God was going to make Eve out of Adam's rib. The rib was taken away by a dog (cat, fox, monkey, damn...
F5b - The character (listed in square brackets in the list of ethnic groups) suggests another woman. Witho...
F6 - Woman has no vagina and it is later made by bird or animal...
F7 - A person catches, grabs, meets, gets a woman associated with the water-chthonic world (fish, siren, ...
F8 - At first (.55.60.67.73.) women and men lived separately from each other, then they came together. Cf...
F9 - For different reasons, sexual contact with a woman is deadly dangerous for a man...
F9a - are teeth, blades, or sharp stones in a woman's vagina or on the inside of her thighs; a vagina is a...
F9a1 - To scare off a boyfriend (priest, worker, etc.) or demon, a girl or young woman pretends to have tee...
F9b - There is biting piranha in a woman's genitals. ...
F9c - A snake (in Oceania, a moray eel) in the vagina; the vagina is the snake's mouth; the snake crawls o...
F9d - In the genitals of a woman or man, there are small stinging creatures that are dangerous for a partn...
F9e - There are small mammals with sharp teeth in the woman's vagina. ...
F9e1 - Woman’s genitals are dangerous becouse of a biting or sting animal(s) is (are) inside (and not onl...
F9f - demon, without a woman's knowledge, regularly kills her suitors on their wedding night. ...
F9f1 - Inside the woman is a snake (snakes, scorpions, just poison) that comes out of her mouth. {The F9F1 ...
F9f2 - A woman puts part of the flesh of her murdered snake lover in her purse and makes a corresponding ri...
F9g - A strong woman overcomes and kills suitors. Hero or his helper tames her (usually whips in the weddi...
F9g1 - In the first marriage night, the bride that has supernatural strength thrusts her weight upon her br...
F10 - A woman has a second mouth (usually in her vagina) with sharp teeth. A person inserts or throws a st...
F11 - penis burns, bites, eats food. ...
F12 - husband kills his wife by inserting her lover's severed penis into her body. ...
F13 - Human or monkey genitals acquire their current shape and color as a result of copulation with a girl...
F14 - The hero was born as a result of a man copulating with a stone, a rock. ...
F15 - The trickster sticks its plant-like penis out of the ground, provoking the woman to sit on it. ...
F16 - Men had biological characteristics that are now characteristic of women, or vice versa (beard, menst...
F17 - Women or men first had or should have had genitals in a different place than they are now. ...
F18a - Penis is so long that he can turn it round his waist or send into a woman who is at a long distance ...
F18b - The man has a penis of incredible length. When copulating, he usually crawls towards a woman like a ...
F18c - The character sees a girl on the other side of the river, copulates with her in an unusual way (send...
F18d - female genitals were huge. ...
F19 - After copulating with a frog, a man's penis is crippled (if not otherwise: it becomes long, see moti...
F20 - After copulation, a man and a woman are unable to open their arms. ...
F20a - At first, people copulated like dogs do now, but then they switched with them. ...
F21 - While the character copulates with a woman, she turns into a tree or rock. His penis gets stuck in i...
F22 - The character asks a person of the opposite sex about the purpose of the part of the body that is us...
F23 - Blood shed during sexual intercourse or artificial defloration during the creation era causes menstr...
F24 - Women lose blood when they are bitten by fish, snake, etc....
F25 - A woman is stained with someone else's or her own blood or blood-like paint, and women have been men...
F26 - The transition of sacred sound instruments (whistles, horns) from women to men is associated with th...
F27 - It is dangerous for girls or women to approach water (aquatic creatures drag it away or swallow it; ...
F28 - The penis is a particular monstrous being with whom copulate the primeval women, the amazons, or a c...
F28a - There is only one penis - the husband of the first women or Amazons, usually (except Ojibwa and Mont...
F28a1 - A living penis is a dangerous creature that attacks humans. ...
F28a2 - The field owner, intentionally or without hearing the question, answers that he grows penises. After...
F28a3 - A girl (woman) has an object that is pleasant (useful). Once in the wrong hands, he turns out to be ...
F28a4 - Penises are fruits or shoots of plants...
F28b - A woman uses a penis made from wax, wood, fruit, or root. Usually her husband or male relative greas...
F28c - A woman masturbates with the penis of a large animal that one of the men killed while hunting. ...
F28d - Masturbating with an artificial penis, a woman conceives children. ...
F29 - girl (woman) sits on the ground and copulates with a snake, worm or eel that crawls out of the groun...
F29a - To kill a woman's lover, who looks like a worm or snake and climbs into her vagina from the ground, ...
F30 - A woman or a girl takes a snake, an eel (i.e. Pacific snake-eel), a lizard, or a worm for husband or...
F30a - A woman nurses a worm (caterpillar, reptile, fish) instead of a child; people kill a monster. ...
F31 - girl or woman conceives without knowing whether it is from a reptile, when she touches a dead reptil...
F32 - Young children or one infant who temporarily become adult men and/or come out of the womb, or snakes...
F33 - A woman or group of women takes a water animal or water monster as lovers. A woman's (s) husband (s)...
F34 - A woman takes a large land animal as a lover. Her husband, brother, or (adopted) children kill or ma...
F34a - Tapir kidnaps a young woman, gets pregnant with him, dies giving birth to his son. ...
F34b - A girl (a woman, a group of women) intentionally takes a penis, which exist as a being apart, a snak...
F35 - A woman or man has an illegal or unnatural relationship, often with a monster or animal. A husband o...
F35a - Person does not know that he or she eats or cooks the meat of the member of his or her household (bl...
F36 - woman or man's (adopted) children kill their father's or (adopted) lover (or an inhuman spouse) of t...
F37 - To summon a lover, the character taps a calebass placed on the water. ...
F38 - Women possessed secret knowledge, sanctuaries, or ritual objects that are now forbidden to them; the...
F39 - In the past or in a distant country, women dominated men, were active parties in marital relations, ...
F40a - A male character, an androgyne, a monstrous penis alone owns, leads them, or takes the first women a...
F40b - A single man ends up in a women's village. Usually he has to satisfy a woman there in addition to hi...
F40c - A powerful man consistently kills boys born to his wife or sister. ...
F41 - First ancestor men kill women who behave against social norms. ...
F42 - Feeling hurt, men leave their wives or sisters. ...
F42a - In the first ancestral community, young men or boys turn into birds or bats and fly away. ...
F43 - Women in the first ancestral community kill or abandon men. ...
F43a - In the community of first ancestors, women kill, try to kill, or transform men. ...
F43b - Leaving men, the women of the ancestral community hide in a hole under the ground. ...
F43c - husbands of first women, Amazons, or single women are small animals-usually flying foxes. ...
F44 - In the ancestral community, women and men quarrel, leave, kill, maim each other, etc....
F45 - There are or have been villages where only women lived or live (cf. Motives F8, F45B). ...
F45a - A woman or female conceives an animal, exposing her genitals to the wind. ...
F45a1 - A woman is impregnated by wind in defiance of her wish...
F45b - There were men who lived separately from women. See also motif F8. ...
F46 - At the beginning of time, two or many men (animal people) have only one woman. ...
F46a - Men (animal people) find a woman at the top of a tree and copulate with her there. ...
F47 - The pieces of a creature or lump of living flesh cut into many parts are scattered or dispersed. Aft...
F47a - Men use every part of a single woman's body for copulation, or every man takes a part of her body cu...
F47b - To create new people (new women) to replace the destroyed ones, the character leaves something (feat...
F48 - Individual women are physically different, as the pieces of the first woman's flesh divided were not...
F49 - The women had their bellies cut to remove the baby. Someone explains how to give birth or makes chil...
F49a - A small animal (mouse, rat, rabbit, two-womb, bird) explains how to give birth. See motive F49. ...
F50 - Babies have the ability to leave their mother's womb and return to it again. ...
F51 - Someone comes to the face of the opposite sex under cover of night. The marriage partner intentional...
F51a - After incest is discovered, the sister openly demands her brother as her husband, turns into a monst...
F51b - To find out the nature or location of a character's locus, another quietly attaches a long thread to...
F51c - After learning that an unknown lover is her own brother, the girl shows him her genitals or naked br...
F51d - Ginseng roots are boys or girls who help the hero. ...
F52 - first ancestor bird places pubic hair or part of a woman's genitals on his head; since then, birds o...
F53 - An ugly man marries but hides his face. When they see him, the marriage ends. ...
F53a - The husband hides his face from his wife because she does not know that he is the Bat or Owl. ...
F54 - Unknowingly, a son converges with his mother or a daughter with a father. (Incest with a mother is o...
F54a - In her husband's guise, a woman does not immediately discover noticeable signs that indicate that he...
F54b - A boy or boy copulates with his mother or sister. This becomes known from the remains of paint or fe...
F54c - The husband sees traces of someone's fingernails on his wife's body and gathers the men to find out ...
F54d - A woman gives birth to a boy after accidentally drinking an animal's urine, or a female animal gives...
F54e - A young man kills somebody and later gets to know that ut was his father...
F55 - Not understanding what her partner of the opposite sex wants, a woman or girl names or shows various...
F55a - The demonic character wants a woman to expose a certain part of her body, because only there you sho...
F56 - Seeing the vagina of a mother, daughter, daughter-in-law, sister, niece, or mother-in-law, a man or ...
F56a - To see a woman's genitals, a man throws something brightly flashing into the hearth. The woman loose...
F57 - A girl or her father (rarely a mother) picks a plant (usually a flower) and as a result runs into a ...
F58 - The character spends the night with a group of women hiding their nature and/or intentions. In the e...
F59 - By pretending to be a woman, the trickster turns a part of his body, another character, or object in...
F60 - A girl or woman is ill. The character comes to heal her. The treatment consists of him copulating wi...
F61 - The male character pretends to be sick, weak, unconscious; the woman carries him on her back, copula...
F62 - An (ostensibly) sick (ugly, weak, poorly clad) person remains at home when others go to the feast. T...
F63 - trickster man turns into a woman and gets married. As a result, he is exposed, or runs away from her...
F64 - The character appears to be another person to pair up with a close relative in a descending or (less...
F64a - Going away or pretending to die, a person bids his or her relative to marry another person who resem...
F64b - A woman pretends to be a stranger to have sexual relations with her (grand)son, daughter or brother...
F65 - To satisfy his secret desire to violate social norms (forbidden sex, refusal to share food with rela...
F65a - Person pretends to die. His or her wife or husband abandons him or her on a burial place. He or she ...
F65b - The character simulates death to eat greedily alone. ...
F65c - A man feigns death to marry his daughter or to eat burial food. One of the younger children recogniz...
F65d - The character pretends to be dying and is left at the burial site. However, his wife (mother, aunt) ...
F66 - To commit incest with daughter, grandmother, sister (brother), father, grandson, brother (sister) pr...
F67 - The old woman lives with her (adopted) daughter, niece, or daughter-in-law. (Allegedly) turns into a...
F68 - A woman pretends to be dead or actually dies. A (former) lover comes to her grave. She goes with him...
F69 - woman's husband (male relative), through her children, invites her to come and make love to him; the...
F70 - A woman falsely accuses a man of assaulting her. ...
F70a - To accuse a man or boy of (sexual) abbuse, a woman tears her clothes, smears or scratches her body p...
F70b - A woman takes revenge on a man who has rejected her love. ...
F70c - The young man becomes a victim of intrigue and is crippled (usually shattered). His dicks are restor...
F70d - A girl pretends to be a man or a castrato, or a girl hides an injury, or a man pretends to be a girl...
F70e - The girl pretends to be a man, magically acquires a masculine nature and lives with her wife. Cf. mo...
F70e1 - An old man needs a son to do a man's job. The (only youngest) daughter undertakes this (having succe...
F70e2 - The father takes turns sending daughters or sons to a difficult task. At the very beginning, their c...
F70f - Once in a deserted place, a person accidentally changes his sex. ...
F71 - When refused, the man falsely accuses the woman of debauchery; others believe and try to punish her ...
F72 - The woman asks the man to tie her so that it seems from the outside that she is being raped before c...
F73a - vulva is an unhealed wound on the body of the first women, or the first people did not copulate beca...
F73b - A person tells a wolf or bear that his ox or horse is strong because he has been neutered. A wolf or...
F74 - Seeing a dangerous character, a man or woman undresses and pretends to be dead (or the character him...
F75 - The hunter sees a tapir calling a conditional signal to a female inhabitant of the waters; she comes...
F76 - People learn how to make love when they see birds, fish, or animals copulate; animals teach people h...
F77a - A huge penis serves as a bridge. ...
F78 - The character has teeth in the anus or a second head in place of the anus. ...
F79 - The character consistently marries various non-human women, but is disappointed every time (usually ...
F80 - The first men and/or women do not have genitals, then they get them. ...
F80a - Genitals exist independently of people and can be left behind, attached to the body, etc....
F81 - The character does not recognize his reflection in the water, thinks that someone is looking at him ...
F82 - son-in-law uses the trick to sleep with his mother-in-law, or the mother-in-law uses the son-in-law....
F82a - To lure a forbidden marriage partner into his hammock, the character screams with the voices of bird...
F83 - The character does something forbidden and indecent in a place that is hidden from prying eyes and t...
F83a - One character asks another's children to convey an insult to their mother or father - usually announ...
F83b - A strong female animal chases a weak male, but gets stuck between trees, stones, etc. The runaway mo...
F84 - A guest or younger brother has sexual intercourse with the owner's wife or older brother. Wanting to...
F85 - The month/moon leads women against men or takes women away from men. ...
F86 - The character causes a conditional signal to a married partner or pupil who is inhuman in nature; th...
F86a - The character takes care of a fish, crab, or other creature. Others watch the character, kill and ea...
F87 - snake crawls onto the clothes of a bathing girl, climbs down for the promise to marry him, and takes...
F87a - snake crawls onto the clothes of a bathing girl, climbs down for the promise to marry him, takes her...
F87b - snake crawls onto the clothes of a bathing girl, climbs down for the promise to marry him, takes her...
F88 - female genitals are at first fragrant or odorless, but then acquire an unpleasant odor (they do not ...
F89 - My sister and brother live alone. My brother doesn't agree to incest. The sister goes to the trick, ...
F90 - Brother and sister are getting married. When children born in it learn about their origins, the marr...
F91 - A person finds or grows monstrous worms to eat his wife. ...
F92 - The male character allows himself to be used as a sexual object. ...
F93 - After a person does an action, his penis begins to speak (often: repeating what the person said). ...
F93a - A person's penis begins to speak incessantly, falling silent only after his mother-in-law takes it i...
F94 - A person ascends to the upper world, where he can choose a wife who is either involved in life or de...
F95 - Two companions or brothers live together. One has a wife he hides. Another suspects its existence, d...
F96 - A girl or wife rejects an ugly man. He becomes handsome (usually after he gets to a supernatural bei...
F97 - After eating certain foods, people become sexually mature and/or lose hair or skin on their bodies. ...
F97a5 - Being responsible for breaking food tabou by humans, snake lost its limbs as a punishment...
F98 - A heavenly anthropomorphic deity descends to earth and converges with a cow. ...
F99 - baby turns into an adult man, copulates with the mother, then takes on his former appearance. ...
F100 - The magic tool shows that the only chaste woman is a maid, an orphan, etc. The king chooses a maid. ...
F100a - To revive a man or remove the arrowhead (bullet) from his body, a chaste girl or woman must touch (s...
F100b - Because of her virtue, a woman is able to do what others cannot do, but she only succeeds after she ...
F101 - Using magic, the rival woman tries to prevent the heroine to give birth...
G1 - In order to gain or regain valuables (land, soil, crops, sun, fire, shamanic knowledge, good luck), ...
G2 - character who embodies fertility and life disappears or is kidnapped and then returned by request or...
G3 - Cultivated plants or fertile soil for their cultivation are hidden inside the rock. Birds or Thunder...
G4 - Cultivated plants are found on the mountain or inside the mountain. ...
G5 - The fruits and shoots of different cultivated plants or the fruits of different wild plants grow on ...
G6 - One of the trees is the main thing, the original, something very different from the others (the firs...
G6a - A year is described as a tree, the number of branches, branches, leaves of which corresponds to the ...
G7 - The first ancestors need to cut down a giant tree or (rarely) a rock. Their axes become blunt or bre...
G8 - People or animals cut down or gnaw a tree, a mountain, or a sky support. As soon as employees are di...
G8a - A man cuts a tree to turn a trunk into a boat or something else (Yap: a board for building a house; ...
G8b - A person hides in a tree or (Kazakhs) hides behind walls. Another tries to knock down a tree (break ...
G8c - They try to cut down the tree to get cultivated plants hanging from the branches or water or fish in...
G8d - A tree (pole, mountain) is cut down (gnawed, rubbed) or not allowed to do so in order to rid the wor...
G8e - The character unsuccessfully cuts down a tree growing on the moon. ...
G8f - The characters cut down the tree, but the trunk overgrows. It can be cut off after the chipped chips...
G8g - There is a one-of-a-kind tree that needs to be bent or felled. Its parts are inhabited by different ...
G9 - The forest cut down during the clearing of the site is revived by morning, and the cultivated field ...
G9a - A person clears the area from vegetation, but by morning it revives. At night, a character tells tre...
G10 - A tree with a broken trunk remains hanging, as it is held from above. ...
G11 - squirrel plays an important role in cutting down a giant tree (it usually cuts or tries to cut the v...
G12 - A huge tree, on which various fruits ripen and/or has water in its trunk, grows out of a human body ...
G12a - Cultivated plants emerge from blood droplets or flow like blood from cuts on the human or animal bod...
G12b - Cultivated plants are a gift from a male star or a female star. ...
G12c - fox or coyote rises to heaven, and when it returns, spreads plants on the ground that used to be onl...
G13 - Before the advent of cultivated plants, humans ate rotten or soft (Ceiba L., balsa Ochroma (Bombax) ...
G13a - Before the appearance of cultivated plants or fire, people ate earth, clay, and stones. ...
G13b - Before cultivated plants appeared, people ate mushrooms. Creatures of inhuman nature feed on fungi. ...
G13c - Before the cultivated plants or edible wild plants become known, people ate (decomposed) wood, bark,...
G14 - A person swallowed by a water monster is taken by them to the underwater or overseas world, receives...
G15 - In another world or in the past, products or materials used by people look or look like people. ...
G16 - Ants are the first to find cultivated plants that are unknown to others and concentrated in one plac...
G17 - Cultivated (or important edible semi-wild) plant species owe their origin to a snake (moray eel in O...
G18 - boy, woman, or less often a man asks others to leave him/her in the woods, burn him, scatter the rem...
G19 - After a conflict in the community of first ancestors, a group of men or boys (paresis: boy and girl)...
G20 - Edible crops or wild plants arise from the body of an old woman, young woman or girl. ...
G21 - A coconut tree grows out of the character's head. ...
G22 - frog/toad is associated with people's acquisition of cultivated plants. ...
G23 - The origin of different (more than two) creatures or objects is due to the metamorphosis of a living...
G23a - Parts of the body and organs of a living being turn into various plants like teeth into corn, testic...
G23b - People of different ethnic groups emerge from parts of the creature's body, or people of different g...
G24 - The first seeds or shoots of cultivated or essential edible wild plants and/or agronomic knowledge w...
G24a - Person steals cultivated plants for the people hiding the seeds on/in his body...
G25 - Cereal seeds are scattered over the world, fell to the ground, and now people grow bread. ...
G26 - After swallowing or hiding food in his mouth, the character brings them to the ground (gives them to...
G27 - Cultivated plants appear with urine or at the place where the hero urinated. ...
G28 - The tree contains fish in its trunk. ...
G29 - The character consists of or turns into various household and industrial artifacts. ...
G30 - The long penis is cut into pieces that turn into many edible plants or different types of trees. Cf....
G31 - To clear the area, the character ties the trees with a rope and effortlessly knocks everything down ...
H1a - The character decides that people should die. His or her child, mother, or a creature whose life is ...
H1b - The character acts that lead to death because he does not care or wants the death of a child or woma...
H1bb - One character refuses to resurrect another's favorite dog, and this conflict involves losing the abi...
H1c - People stop reviving (or no longer come alive) after the deceased is buried in the ground for the fi...
H1d - The deceased returns, but people send him back, refuse to accept him, or bury him again. Death has b...
H1e - A character is the first to go to the world of the dead, after which all people follow the same path...
H1f - People learn how to treat the deceased by observing the behavior of a crow. ...
H2 - Animals ask God to make humans (tigers: pets) mortal or otherwise reduce their number because they f...
H3 - Death is sent to people as punishment for excessive sympathy for a dead animal or for playing funera...
H4 - Those who change their skin (bark, clothes) are immortal (forever young). (Cf. K56a5a motive: Peel o...
H4a - People no longer rejuvenate (usually they do not change their skin), because a person was disturbed ...
H5 - Reptiles or invertebrates are opposed to humans as immortal and/or responsible for people dying and ...
H6a - Mortal humans are opposed to plants that regularly shed their bark, bloom in the spring after winter...
H6b - product that gives immortality and is intended for humans has not been delivered to its intended pur...
H6bb - The character is sent to give people an object or substance that is essential for them to possess. T...
H6c - The raven (crow, vulture) is associated with death or is opposed to man as immortal to mortals (sent...
H6c1 - To get the desired object, the character grabs a chick (snake, crustacean) and promises to let it go...
H6c2 - At the edge of the world lies the land of darkness. Those who want to get living water or gold go th...
H6c3 - Big migratory birds who fly like a wedge (stocks, cranes, swans, geese; Zugvögel in German) are con...
H6d - After obtaining a tool that ensures immortality, the character falls asleep or leaves the product un...
H7 - Death (alone or also illness, old age) is a special character, different from the Lord of the World ...
H7a - Having received knowledge from Death (rarely: Happiness or a spirit) whether the sick will be healed...
H7b - A man lures Death (Devil) to climb a tree or sit on a bench to which they are stuck and can free the...
H7b1 - After receiving a magic bag, where any creature climbs against his own will at the request of the ow...
H7b2 - Person called Poverty makes Death to promise him/her that he, the Death, will never come to him. Bec...
H7c - Death promises a person to pick him up after they finish a prayer or song (formerly ATU 1199B)). A p...
H7c1 - Cunning man first deceives Death (Devil) and then, also using a trich, gets into the Paradise...
H7d - A person calls on Death, and when she comes, he asks her to help him pick up a bunch of firewood or ...
H7e - People used to know when they were going to die, so they stopped doing business or doing their dutie...
H7f - God gives instructions that certain categories of people should die and suffer. The character who ha...
H7f1 - Death devours the dead and thus satisfies its hunger. ...
H7f2 - The incarnation of death had a body that was visible for the people. Later Death becomes invisible...
H7g - A person sees a lot of burning candles or lamps. When one of them burns out, one person dies. ...
H7g1 - Person (who is usually in search of the godgather for the newborn child) rejects God (saints) and de...
H8 - Not daring to come into contact with something unclean, toxic, dangerous or hot, people lost their i...
H9 - People are mortal (sick, old) because they are compared to something weak, fragile, easy to die or d...
H9a - Of the two women, one associated with a stone and the other with a plant, only a plant woman leaves ...
H9b - People are like plants that, although mortal, live in their descendants (shoots). ...
H10 - Humans are mortal because they are like a rock thrown into the water; they usually miss the opportun...
H11 - People are mortal or defective because they answer the call (or name) of the creature that brings de...
H12 - The living one visits the afterlife, usually following the deceased (except for texts about the retu...
H12a - The wife dies, the husband comes for her, or he kills her for treason; she turns into a monster, sta...
H12b - In the afterlife, dead or demons feed on excrement. ...
H12c - The husband follows his deceased wife to the afterlife, but cannot bring her back, or returns her, b...
H13 - The character comes to the afterlife, meets the deceased there, he manages to bring him back to the ...
H14 - A woman who has returned from the world of the dead flies back, becoming a bird or a fly. ...
H15 - Dead people or spirits do not hear screams when they are alive, but they hear whispers, yawns, gurgl...
H16 - There are rivers of tears in the other world. Tears shed on the ground fill large containers there. ...
H16a - The narratives (in different contexts) mention rivers (lakes) of blood (also water used to wash the ...
H16b - The narratives (in different contexts) mention a milk pond (river, lake, wave in the sea) that exist...
H17 - The ancestors surround the dead or sick with a ring, trying to protect him. The antagonist manages t...
H18 - Commercial animals were concentrated in one place. A character creates them there or lets them run a...
H18a - The owner of commercial animals hides them underground; one of the first ancestors turns into a pupp...
H18b - Having received livestock from supernatural characters, a person (usually due to a violation of the ...
H19 - raven (s) hides commercial animals in a pen, cave, or scares them away from hunters. See motive H18....
H20 - All fish or (rarely) mollusks were concentrated in one place. A character lets her escape or intenti...
H20a - A woman or several women keep fish or water in a container; a man releases all the fish into rivers ...
H21 - The character owns animals or fish; the boy, boy or girl knows the secret or serves as bait themselv...
H21a - fish is concentrated in a small container, from which the owner takes as much as necessary. Another ...
H22 - Large commercial animals had no sense of smell. They found it and started running away from the hunt...
H22a - Large commercial animals were concentrated in one place and were not afraid of people. They ran away...
H23 - now rigid and inedible object originally consisted of fat. ...
H24 - vessel or other small container with valuables or dangerous creatures is open (o) (ahead of time). I...
H24a - Opening the bag, the character releases stars rushing into the sky in disarray. ...
H24b - character must open the vessel with the soul of the deceased when he gets to the place or after a ce...
H24c - People open the vessel (bundle, basket, etc.) in which death (or old age, illness) is located, and t...
H24d - The animal character who released the contents (darkness, insects, reptiles) from the vessel is stil...
H24e - Bringing human embryos into our world, the character drops or discovers what he has brought ahead of...
H24f - The character gives the other a small bag, placing a lot of meat or fish in it. The person who recei...
H24g - A woman brought back from another world or received there disappears as soon as the man opens the bo...
H25 - People are offered a choice of two subjects, one of which is death, the other is life, or they are a...
H26 - A vessel with stinging insects or reptiles should be thrown into the river, into the sea, and buried...
H27 - Before spreading around the world, stinging or blood-sucking insects or reptiles, diseases, or evil ...
H27a - When creating land, a negative character asks the positive one for as much land as necessary to supp...
H27a1 - When creating land, a negative character asks the positive one for as much land as necessary to supp...
H28 - A dead and destroyed (often burned) creature (usually an ogre, a ferocious animal, a strong shaman) ...
H28a - When a character is burned, smoke and sparks turn into mosquitoes and other blood-sucking insects th...
H28b - Trimmed hairs on an animal's skin, or ash and smoke from a burnt skin covered with hair, turn into b...
H28c - The character creates blood-sucking insects to influence the behavior of the marriage partner. ...
H29 - A woman converges with an animal. People of hostile people come from or derive their culture from ch...
H30 - When meeting two women (together or one at a time), the hero must or can choose one. Usually it is e...
H31 - God summons several characters, including humans and heavenly bodies, and makes man mortal and lumin...
H32a - A young woman is the embodiment of fertility, she comes to live with people, and food becomes easily...
H32b - A girl and/or boy, who are children of a deity, come to live with people, which leads to an abundanc...
H33 - At first, babies walked, should or could walk right after birth. ...
H33a - God wanted to throw his newborn child (through a fence, house, etc.) to get back on his feet and wal...
H34a - The character suggests what the world should be like, and in particular believes that people should ...
H34b - Somewhere there is or was a river that flowed or was supposed to flow in two directions at once. ...
H34c - Rice flew from the field to the house by himself. ...
H34d - zoomorphic character climbs to the sky or moon to bite off a piece of them. ...
H34d1 - The sky or celestial objects were edible, but then this food source became unavailable or used only ...
H34e - The snow was edible. ...
H34f - baskets or clay vessels themselves carried weights. ...
H34g - One grain was enough to prepare the meal. ...
H34h - Firewood and firewood came by themselves, flew into the house, they did not need to be specially har...
H35 - People's teeth are made of fragile material. Usually, the motive explains the etiology of toothache....
H36 - The character is sent to give instructions or some items. The messenger distorts the message, brings...
H36a - The character distorts the message sent to him, knowingly lies, brings the wrong thing, loses what h...
H36b - chameleon is to blame for the fact that a person is mortal or that he must work; he loses what the d...
H36c - lizard is to blame for the fact that a person is mortal. See H36 motif. <b></b>...
H36d - The hare distorts God's command and/or is to blame for the fact that a person is mortal. See H36 mot...
H36e - The rat is to blame for the fact that a person is mortal. ...
H36f - raven has been sent to deliver an important item or send a message. He distorts the message or loses...
H36ff - raven (crow) or other large vulture tries to kill people and/or is responsible for the fact that a p...
H36g - God sends a messenger to tell people to eat rarely (once a day, every three days, etc.). The messeng...
H36g1 - When a bull (ox, cow) was told to give people certain instructions, he confused them or deliberately...
H36gg - It is the coyote's fault that a person is mortal. ...
H36h - Creatures, including a frog or a toad, must get over the barrier. This doesn't happen as intended an...
H36hh - A frog or a toad is to blame for the fact that a person is mortal. ...
H36i - A goat or sheep is to blame for the fact that a person is mortal. See H36 motif. <b></b>...
H36j - lark is to blame for the fact that a person is mortal. ...
H37 - Magic object, device that makes hunting or fishing easy gets into possession of a person who is unab...
H37a - The character gives the other the ability to easily light a fire. He uses it unnecessarily, loses it...
H37b - A character gives someone his power (usually a skunk fires his volley); the skunk spends money witho...
H38 - A supernatural character changes his appearance, comes to the hero's children (less often to himself...
H39 - Snakes drink liquid spilled on the ground and as a result become poisonous or immortal; creatures re...
H40 - The dog protects and protects (successfully or unsuccessfully) a human figure that has not been fina...
H41 - Due to the fault of a dog, a person is weak, mortal, and vicious. Usually, the antagonist bribes the...
H42 - After creating people's bodies or conceiving a creation, the creator or his representative leaves fo...
H43 - One character creates people's bodies and the other makes them come to life. ...
H43a - Having created the human body, the creator leaves. At this time, another character tries to break a ...
H43aa - Having created the human body, the creator leaves. At this time, his opponent spat on a figure that ...
H43ab - Man is mortal because somebody spit on him when his figure was still in process of creation...
H44 - Two characters, one connected to the sky or water, and the other to the earth, or to the spirit worl...
H44a - Two persons, one of whom is connected with the sky (water, spirit world) and another with the earth ...
H45 - A woman or child disrespects food by staining it with feces. For this, people (rarely: only the culp...
H46 - God takes away people's bread as punishment, but leaves some for the animal (usually a dog), so cere...
H46a - peculiarities of cereal vegetation (usually the size of an ear of bread) are determined by the dog's...
H47 - Heaven (heavenly deity) or Earth are offended by people's behavior towards them, and responds accord...
H48 - Diseases - female sisters (less commonly male brothers), usually children of an evil spirit. ...
H49 - A dog or other animal kills a creature that threatened a young child. The owner or other people mist...
H49b - A person borrows money and leaves the dog as collateral. The dog is of great benefit to the new owne...
H49c - A pet bird (rarely: a pet) shows visible aggression towards its owner (usually a falcon knocks the b...
H49d - A character (usually a bird) brings healing (rejuvenating) fruit (seed, branch). Incidentally or by ...
H50 - A pair of deities or first ancestors disperse. A man stays on earth or goes to heaven (stays in heav...
H51 - The horse is a predator or is associated with an opponent of God. ...
H52 - A person finds a country where there is no death, but eventually dies. ...
H52a - Coming back from the land of immortality, the hero should not touch the ground. However, he comes do...
H52b - Setting off in search of the land of immortality, the hero comes across persons or animals who are i...
H53 - The wolf takes part in the creation of the earth or is the brother of the creator and/or the victor ...
H54 - character's eyelids (eyelashes, eyebrows) hang down, closing the eyes. In order for his eyes to be w...
H54a - The hero meets an old man whose face is completely covered. He cuts his hair, a grateful old man hel...
H54b - The character's gaze brings death (and destruction). ...
H55 - person who goes to another world consistently sees people punished or rewarded for their lifetime ac...
H55a - Once in a different world, a person sees a husband and wife trying to cover themselves with one blan...
H55b - From a person who has visited hell (met a deity), the robber learns about his future fate, humbly ac...
H56 - After eating certain foods, the first people become mortal or lose their human nature. Cf. Motive F9...
I1 - Things that cause or embody rain and/or thunderstorm are birds or winged anthropomorphic characters....
I2 - Lightning flies out of the eyes or mouth {indicated} of the creature that embodies the thunderstorm....
I3 - Lightning (and thunder) produces an object (sword, arrow, whip, mirror, etc.) in the character's han...
I3a - During a thunderstorm, the character strikes with a whip - these are flashes of lightning. ...
I4 - As the vehicle moves across the sky, thunder sounds. ...
I4a - thunder falls to the ground and can't rise. Usually a person helps him return to heaven. ...
I4b - A person helps thunder defeat the enemy. ...
I4c - Stormbringer's opponent temporarily overcomes and captivates him. ...
I4d - The enemy steals a weapon (usually a musical instrument) that the thunder god uses to cause a thunde...
I4d1 - The enemy steals the thunder's tendons (heart and eyes), who returns them and prevails over the enem...
I4e - The hero and his opponent fight and are still fighting in the sky. This is thunder. ...
I5 - Thunder (lightning, rain) looks like a four-legged mammal - a pig, buffalo, camel, anteater, tapir, ...
I5a - Tapir is associated with the upper world (thunder, sky, moon). ...
I5b - A flying jaguar causes storms, rain, thunderstorms. ...
I6 - A person meets a huge bird carrying clouds, rain, snow, thunderstorm, etc....
I6a - The male and female of a huge bird carry different types of precipitation (for example, an eagle car...
I7 - The reptile produces rain and thunderstorm. ...
I7a - Lightning is associated with a snake. ...
I7b - Lightning is a crack in the sky through which the vault of heaven is visible for a moment. ...
I7c - When a character in the upper world urinates, it rains (dew falls) on the ground. ...
I8c - The ground is kept from falling or swaying because it is tied to ropes. ...
I8e - Four (or eight) anthropomorphic male persons support the earth or the sky or are placed at the four...
I8e1 - The sky or the earth rests upon four or five (cardinal points and the center) supports of any kind (...
I8f - The sky, the world, is based on a single pillar (a pole or a tree). ...
I8g - One giant supports the earth or the sky...
I8h - man and a woman in the underworld support the Earth. ...
I8i - Initially, the earth swings, is unstable, and it has to be specially fixed. ...
I9 - Each (or at least three) of the four cardinal points (as well as the zenith and nadir) and/or object...
I9a - The zenith and/or nadir are described together with four cardinal directions as the fifth (and the s...
I10a - individual tiers or categories of sky or clouds differ in color. ...
I10b - Individual levels or categories of land differ in color. ...
I11 - turtle (toad, frog) serves as the support (embodiment) of the earth (sky). ...
I12 - A tree, a pillar with branches, rarely - a smooth pillar connects the tiers of the universe. The cle...
I13a - A huge water-chthonic or heavenly serpent, dragon, snake-shaped creature has horns on its head. ...
I13b - A small snake, a snake, has horns on its head. ...
I13c - Reptiles own a treasure that a person takes possession of or tries to take possession of. This is us...
I13d - A person enters a snake's home, spends a long time there, is released back or runs away. While in th...
I13e - serpent agrees to let the person go on condition that he does not tell us about their meeting. On pa...
I14 - Creatures that do not have an anus are described. ...
I14a - People without anuses spew out a hole eaten through their mouths or other (marked) holes. See motive...
I15 - Creatures don't have mouths. Usually their mouth is then cut through. ...
I15a - Out of ignorance or in a hurry, anthropomorphic creatures first have their mouths cut vertically. ...
I16 - The first people do not have a mouth, anus, genitals, and their women do not know how to give birth....
I17 - Creatures without a mouth, anus, genitals who do not know how to give birth live underground, in the...
I17a - Creatures without anus or (Greece, yakima, zunyi: mouth) are dwarfs. ...
I18 - By visiting a world of people without an anus or mouth (the underworld, if not otherwise), the hero ...
I19 - Anthropomorphic creatures satisfy hunger with the evaporation of cooked food. See motives I14 (peopl...
I20 - The inhabitants of the lower world or a country on the horizon where the sky is adjacent to the eart...
I20a - Anthropomorphic inhabitants of the upper world are giants...
I20b - People in the upper world are different from those on earth and are belted below or above the waist....
I20c - Dwarfs live in the underworld that somewhat reminds the world of humans. If the dwarfs and the human...
I20c1 - Dwarfs live not deep under the earth but in hills and rocks, usually come from there to the earth...
I20c2 - The denizens of the country at the horizon (where the sky and the earth meet) are dwarfs...
I21 - At sunrise, inhabitants of the underworld or country have red (yellow) hair and/or red or black skin...
I22 - The character must walk between converging and diverging (rising and falling) rocks, trees, etc. For...
I22a - The sky is constantly moving up and down in respect to earth...
I22b - Migratory birds fly from our world to another; the hole to another world is narrow, the path lies be...
I22b1 - Some migratory birds (or shamns in guse of birds) perish when they reach the border of our world...
I22c - Person succeeds in getting through the opening which is going to bang shut but the stern of his boat...
I22d - To get a wonderous medicine that revives (cures) living beings, one must go between clashing rocks...
I22e - On their way to the Beyond, souls of the dead must get between clashing rocks or other moving obstac...
I22f - Person must go beyond relatively small objects (trees, logs, blades) which are incessantly clashing ...
I22g - There are mountains or rocks which permanently collide and separate again from each other or a crack...
I22g1 - Clashing stones are among strange creatures and objects, which the hero sees In the other world. The...
I22h - Person must jump over a crevise or precipice under his feet that is widening and narrowing all the t...
I23 - door of the house opens and slams by itself, pushing people in or out. See motive I22. ...
I24 - snake (or fish) forms a bridge across the river. ...
I25 - Dangerous creatures guard the path to or entry to the character's house. The hero appeases them with...
I25a - The character gives herbivores food intended for predatory animals, and herbivores for predatory ani...
I25b - It's about women who work without simple tools, but using parts of their bodies instead. ...
I26 - On its way to another world, the soul must distract the attention of its guards with gifts or defend...
I27 - A dog and/or (rarely) a domestic cat is the owner, guardian of the land of the dead, a guide on the ...
I27a - Souls of the dead dogs have their own towns in the Beyond or their own paths to travel there...
I27b - A dog ferries person across a river that forms a border between the worlds...
I27c - Dogs with two spots above their eyes stand out and are commonly referred to as double or quadruple-e...
I27d - There is a black or red dog that (associated with objects in the night sky) has a negative effect on...
I28 - Commercial animals or pets are located inside a mountain, in a cave or in the underworld, or have on...
I28a - Big game animals disappear under the earth and produce earthquakes...
I29 - The character climbs a hole for an animal and finds himself in the lower world, or digging a deep ho...
I30 - In the world of the dead, its master or mistress copulates with all new arrivals. ...
I31 - In the afterlife, the souls of the dead are met by a pair of mythological characters - a man and a w...
I32 - There was or is a tree on which the souls of unborn babies grow, whose leaves have turned into human...
I32a - When a leaf or fruit of a particular tree falls, one person on earth dies. ...
I33 - On the afterlife, the soul stops at a tree. ...
I34 - It is necessary to approach a tree that is surrounded by fire, spews fire, throws sharp chips, etc....
I35 - Thunder produces the skin of an animal or (rarely) a person being dragged, or clothes that are dragg...
I35a - thunder is produced by an old woman in the sky. ...
I35a1 - The character claims to be a thunder god, imitates him. ...
I35a1a - The character considers himself equal to a deity, imitating him, mocking him, or trying to kill him....
I35a2 - Thunder is heard when stones or large vessels are rolled, dragged, knocked over in the sky. ...
I35b - The sky is considered metallic. The process of creating it resembles metal forging. ...
I35c - One of the mythological characters, using craft skills, makes (usually forges) tools and natural obj...
I36 - Two brothers (two sisters, brother and sister, multiple siblings, young husband and wife) turn into ...
I37d - Mushrooms are the excrement of a mythological character. See motive I37. ...
I37d1 - St. Peter stealthily eats bread, and when Christ asks him what he is doing, he chokes, spits out cru...
I37e - Tree fungi are steps, small platforms, umbrellas, obstacles that make moving easier or more difficul...
I37f - Mushrooms are called “ears”. ...
I37g - Tree fungi shout like persons...
I38 - There are creatures that combine the characteristics of a dog and a person (usually people with dog ...
I38a - women's husbands are dogs or psoglavans. ...
I39 - A rainbow is a bridge, a road, a ladder. ...
I39a - souls of the dead walk across the rainbow to another world. ...
I40 - A rainbow is a bow. ...
I41 - A rainbow is a reptile (usually a snake), less often a fish or a snake-shaped, usually dangerous obj...
I41a - rainbow rises from an anthill or termite mound. ...
I41b - rainbow drinks (draws in) water (and living beings). ...
I41b1 - rainbow drinks, swallowing fish, people, etc. along with water. Sometimes this fish falls from the s...
I41c - rainbow, or the Milky Way, is the reflection of a snake (fish) on the ground or at sea. ...
I42 - A rainbow is a pair of creatures, usually male and female, male and female. ...
I42g3 - In the forest person comes across a house that is made, completely or partly, of edible matter...
I43a - A giant reptile, a snake, a fish, a chain of fish extends above the ground and/or supports the sky. ...
I43b - The Milky Way is a reptile, a fish, or a chain of fish. ...
I44 - A huge serpent borders, embodies, or supports the earth. ...
I45a - The one who points with a finger or gazes intently at the moon or star will become ill (die), or the...
I45b - The finger pointing or gazing closely at the rainbow will become ill, or the finger pointed at will ...
I45c - Misfortunes and ailments await the counting stars. ...
I46 - A rainbow is an ornamented piece of clothing, a bright fabric, an ornament, a belt. ...
I46a - rainbow is associated with a woman - usually an elderly woman. ...
I46b - The color of the rainbow can be used to predict the yield of individual crops. ...
I46c - rainbow is the rope that cattle are tied to. ...
I46d - rainbow is a hunting loop, a trap. ...
I46e - A rainbow is a sword that cuts a weapon. ...
I47 - rainbow smells disgusting, is associated with malodorous animals, is a stream of secretions, is asso...
I47a - rainbow is associated with a fox or jackal wedding. ...
I48 - The character is unable to move, after which he acquires cosmic dimensions: he supports the earth (s...
I48a - At the terminal part of the narrative the antagonist of the hero descends into the underworld...
I49 - earthquake is an anthropomorphic character (or category of characters) who moves to shake the ground...
I50 - An animal (horse, elk, deer, bear, etc.) with six, eight or more legs is described or depicted. ...
I50a - demon consistently tears off the legs of an animal that helps the hero (usually the horse that the h...
I50b - A predator animal or a zoomorphic non-reptilian monster with six or more legs is described or repres...
I50c - An ungulate animal with an additional set of legs on its back runs using in turns legs under its bel...
I51a - supports the Earth or has a large mammal in the center of the earth. See I8B motif. ...
I51b - The earth or sky is perceived as a large mammal or created from parts of its body. ...
I52 - The world rests on a fish or fish-like creature, or the earth itself is a similar creature or origin...
I53 - An animal on which the earth rests is annoyed by an insect or other small creature, so the animal mo...
I54 - Inside a snake or other aquatic creature there are aquatic animals or live fish; a water monster pro...
I55 - Stars are holes in the sky; or holes in the veil, in the roof of a dwelling, appear to be stars. ...
I55a - Stars are lakes on one of the celestial levels. ...
I55b - The hero is chasing a deer or a moose that carries the sun. ...
I56 - A person who enters another world is invisible to its inhabitants, and whoever he touches usually fa...
I56a - When a man who had got to the land of spirits touches a local dweller the latter dies or becomes sic...
I57 - Thunder's opponents are animals, reptiles, and spirits living in burrows. They usually hide from him...
I58 - The Milky Way is called the bird route and is associated with migratory birds. ...
I59 - The Milky Way is something related to agriculture and scattered - straw, chaff, less often flour, ha...
I59a - Astral objects or moonspots are associated with a story about the theft of certain items, and the va...
I59b1 - The Milky Way is a road to a distant city, usually with religious significance (Rome, Jerusalem, etc...
I59b2 - The Milky Way is St. James's Road. ...
I59b3 - The Milky Way is the road of salt traders, the “Chumatsky Way”. ...
I59b4 - The Milky Way is associated with snow, frost, and cold. ...
I60 - The Milky Way is a seam, a crack between the two halves of the sky. ...
I60a - The Milky Way is a band associated with the longitudinal band on the animal's body. ...
I61 - Milky Way is a trace of spilled milk...
I61a - The Milky Way is a heavenly belt. ...
I62 - The Milky Way is a heavenly river, a pond, a chain of creatures floating in water. ...
I63 - Milky Way is a path of tapir, or tapir is seen in the Milky Way...
I64 - The Milky Way is a trail of animals walking or fleeing. ...
I64a - Two different ungulates race across the sky. The Milky Way is usually their dust trail. ...
I65 - The Milky Way is a path to another world, followed by souls of the dead and/or shamans, or by a fune...
I66 - The Milky Way is ash or smoldering embers. ...
I67 - The giant figure of an emu (in Australia) or a nandu (in South America) can be seen on the Milky Way...
I68 - At a certain point, the sky opens up and you can see what is happening in heaven; it is generally be...
I68a - Once in a year water for a short time acquires special qualities...
I68b - In a certain night of the year any wish that was thought of or voiced is fulfilled...
I69 - Glowing celestial objects or atmospheric phenomena are the bodily secretions of celestial beings. ...
I70 - Trees or reeds grow on the reptile's back or head. ...
I71 - Stars are the roots of plants growing in the upper world. ...
I72 - Stars are anthropomorphic creatures. See motif K19 (marriage to a star). It does not take into accou...
I72a - Stars are children of the moon and/or sun. ...
I73 - Stars (rarely suns and months) are sparks, hot coals. ...
I74 - Stars are (bright) stones, sparkles, beads. ...
I74a - Stars are fireflies. ...
I75 - Before the present world or people of today, there were others (at least two worlds or races). ...
I76a - After a certain period of time, the snake or fish turns into another creature, usually a dragon. ...
I76b - After a certain time or after performing certain actions, an ordinary mouse turns into a bat. ...
I77 - A mighty character associated with thunderstorm and rain, chrome. ...
I78 - The Earth is thought to be rectangular (usually square). ...
I80 - A person who finds himself in the role of an assistant or guest of a heavenly character, or who secr...
I80a - When a person meets Gromov, he himself becomes one of them. ...
I80b - A person is allowed to control the weather to his own advantage. He sends rain in time but forgets t...
I81 - Earth's waters are falling into the abyss. ...
I81a - A giant crab causes earthquakes or floods, closes or can close water runoff. ...
I81a1 - The fight between crab and snake (eel) determines the characteristics of the terrain of a particular...
I81b - At high tide, a creature spews out sea water or displaces it with its body, and at low tide it swall...
I82a - The Morning Star and/or the Evening Star is a male character. ...
I82b - The Morning Star and/or the Evening Star is a female character. ...
I82c - Venus, or an unidentified star in the eastern and/or western sky, is the wife of the Month. See the ...
I82c1 - The Month has two wives (usually the Morning Star and the Evening Star). For a caring woman, he is g...
I82d - The morning and evening stars are opposed as a man and a woman. See motive I82a, I82b. ...
I82e - said about Venus or another star that she sold her mother or father to dress up luxuriously. ...
I82f - (Evening) Venus is associated with a predator animal, usually with a she-wolf...
I82g - Venus or another star (Arcturus, Sirius, etc.) is called the Shepherd's Star (the star of Shepherd, ...
I82h - The name of Venus sounds like Cholpan, Cholbon, Tsolmon, etc. (čol- “sparkle, shine” [Vámbéri...
I82i - The name of the night sky object (usually Venus) sounds like Zukhra, Zahra, Zura, etc....
I83 - Birds (especially vultures and eagles) have lived or live in the sky, usually on one of the smaller ...
I84 - The Milky Way is a ski trail. ...
I84a - Contrary to the warning of his father or mother, a young man or girl sets off in winter and freezes....
I85 - The North Star - stake, nail, horse riding, etc....
I85a - Animals walk around the North Star, or the movement of stars is compared to the movement of animals ...
I85a1 - The North Star is a hole that leads to the upper world. ...
I85b - The North Star is one person. ...
I85c - There are vessels in the sky with certain weather, types of precipitation, seasons, etc....
I85c1 - In the sky there is a special container (vessel, skin, box, etc.) for storing the rain...
I86 - The inhabitant of the upper world releases fluff, wool, scales, which turn into birds, animals, and ...
I86a - Snow comes from bird fluff when a bird shakes off in the sky or when a character shakes out down or ...
I87 - Characters use as cover an object (skull, animal shovel, mitten) belonging to the giant world. Wed. ...
I87a - A gigantic character turns out to be small compared to an even larger character, or the same charact...
I87a1 - The two are engaged in a dialogue, contradictory characterizing the size of creatures and objects. ...
I87a2 - antagonist calls numbers from one to seven or nine, the hero answers what each corresponds to, the a...
I87aa - A giant bull is described (rarely: a horse): a head on one field, a torso on another; a bathhouse on...
I87ab - Strongmen or many people cannot move the body of a killed animal or the leg of a person lying motion...
I87ac - A person gets into his eye something huge that he thinks is a speck. Usually, a bird carries an anim...
I87ad - giant hides a stalked person in his mouth-usually (possibly always) in the hollow of a tooth. ...
I87b - When a character shows off his strength, his wife or mother says he is stronger than he is. He goes ...
I87c - Animals use a small object belonging to the human world (skull, mitten, pitcher, etc.) to hide or mo...
I87c1 - The mouse makes a boat for itself from a small object. ...
I87d - earth used to be inhabited by giants. One of them finds a tiny little man, brings it to his father o...
I87e - After today's humans, dwarfs will live on earth. ...
I87f - Before modern people, there were others who were strong, tall, noble, or other qualities. They disap...
I88 - A creature with several tails is described. ...
I89 - People mistake a star or constellation that rises at night for the morning, go on a journey, lose th...
I90 - The character goes to the goal, following a ball of thread rolling in front of him. {The motive is n...
I91 - foot or around the base of a tree that connects the tiers of the universe or is gigantic and is cons...
I92 - A person who comes into contact with the rainbow in a certain way (who walks under it, drinks water ...
I92a - Anyone who jumps or steps over the rainbow will change his or her sex...
I92b - There is a treasure under the extremities of the rainbow...
I93 - The Milky Way is the spine, support, pillar of heaven or peace. ...
I94 - Pleiades are something full of holes. ...
I95 - Pleiades are a sieve or sieve for sifting agricultural products. See I95 motif. ...
I95a - Orion is a scale. ...
I95b - Orion is a rocker. ...
I95c - Orion's belt - a staff, a stick, three sticks, a rod, a crutch, etc....
I96 - The rainbow consists of blood or foreshadows war and death. ...
I97 - rainbow is an ungulate animal (horse, bull, goat, sheep). ...
I98a - Pleiades - chicken, hen with chickens, chickens, rarely a rooster. ...
I98b - Pleiades are ducks, wild duck's nest or egg. ...
I99 - The Pleiades are a group of boys or men, or a group of different people but predominantly males...
I100 - The Pleiades are a group of girls or women (with children)...
I100a - Pleiades are a woman or man with children, members of the same family. ...
I100b - Pleiades are a group of people of any gender and age. See i99 - i100a motives, cumulative data. ...
I100c - God turned her husband into a cuckoo, and his wife and children into Pleiades. ...
I100d - Stars are associated with goats. ...
I101 - The Big Dipper or several bright stars of another constellation are stakes, pillars that support the...
I102 - The Milky Way is a tree, a tree trail. ...
I103 - Sirius is associated with a dog or a wolf...
I104 - Stars are formed from body particles, fragments of a larger star (usually a month); stars (usually a...
I105 - One of the constellations is associated with the hand (with five fingers marked). ...
I106 - The Big Dipper is one anthropomorphic character, not a group of people. ...
I107 - Stars are nails hammered into the sky, stakes, or stars are nailed. ...
I108 - Pleiades are one character, not a group of people. ...
I109 - The Milky Way is the road on which the Sun and Moon travel. ...
I110 - Constellations are associated with agricultural tools or with people who are engaged in agricultural...
I110a - Orion (rare: other constellation) is a plough...
I110b - Orion is people or agricultural tools associated with harvesting or haymaking. ...
I111 - The land as a whole, or a mountain range, is the body of a crocodile, dragon, snake (eel). ...
I112 - A boat is a living creature with a mouth, a fish. ...
I113 - A pig or boar made of gold or with golden bristles is a precious item. (In ATU, “gold-bristled pig...
I114 - Creatures shake the ground when they learn that there are no more inhabitants on it, either to check...
I115a - In the same narrative or ritual context, Orion and the Pleiades are pitted against each other as a m...
I116 - The Milky Way is the border-line between seasons of the year or parts of the universe (the wet and t...
I117 - Spider person raises the hero to the sky, helps him or her to return back to earth or otherwise help...
I117a - bat helps the hero to descend to earth from a high cliff. ...
I118 - spider woman (less often an old spider) patronizes a hero or heroine, they live with her, the hero m...
I119 - Earthquakes cause inhabitants of the lower world; during earthquakes, they try to get to the surface...
I119a - Supernatural beings shake the earth because they think that no earth dwellers remained or wanting to...
I120 - Food and clothing can be extracted from the horn of a pet (ox, cow, goat). ...
I120a - Entering into the ear of an animal (usually a horse or cow) and going back, the character becomes ha...
I120b - The character pulls food, clothes, and other valuables from the ear of an animal (most often a horse...
I121 - Constellations (usually Ursa Major and Ursa Minor) are considered as two identical, paired objects. ...
I122 - Pleiades are a beehive, a nest, a cluster of bees or wasps. ...
I123 - Altair with a small neighboring star from Orel or Vega with the same weak star are considered to app...
I124 - The Big Dipper is considered a boat. ...
I125 - Hyades (sometimes possibly the Pleiades or Orion) are the jaw or severed head of a large animal or a...
I126 - The Ursa Major or other circumpolar constellation is a stretcher carrying a dead or sick person, a b...
I127 - Big Bear - bed, couch. ...
I128 - Big Dipper - bucket, scoop. ...
I129 - The rainy season is associated with the appearance of the Heron constellation in the sky. ...
I130 - One of the constellations is a hunting or fishing net, and a seine. ...
I131 - Every person's life corresponds to a thread, when the thread breaks, the person dies. ...
I132 - The deer rests its horns against the sky, and a person climbs them into the upper world. ...
I132a - The girl sits on the swing and they take her to the sky. ...
I132b - A girl comes to the Sun to become his wife, but at the last moment she experiences a metamorphosis (...
I133 - Star objects in different parts of the sky are associated with separate parts (including garments, j...
I133a - There is a constellation that stands for a bird and corresponds to several major constellations of E...
I134 - On the axis of the Milky Way, you can see the figure of a creature with a long neck (llama, emu, nan...
I135 - The sky (the Milky Way) is the skin of an animal. ...
I136 - rolling wheel (which the character turns into) is a weapon. ...
I137 - One of the constellations is associated with a footwear, usually with (worn) bast shoes. ...
I138 - glass mountain (tower, bridge) is referred to as an unusual (hard-to-reach) locus. ...
I139 - Two (less often three) men or women are at a distance from each other, but they regularly throw some...
I140 - the night sky, you can see figures of a deer and a jaguar; these images are connected in a plot. ...
I141 - A stick is a tool to initiate processes which results have no rational explanation...
J2 - husband or lover is a tree (temporarily turning into a person). ...
J3 - A woman conceives a son or twins in a way she doesn't understand; the reason is that when she sits o...
J4 - Heroes avenge the death (capture) of their father, uncle or grandfather, but not their mother or bot...
J5 - Two or more brothers (friends) play the role of the victim. The avenger hero is the son of one of th...
J6 - A pregnant woman is killed (and eaten). Twins are taken out of her womb, who are usually also meant ...
J6a - A pregnant woman with her young daughter ends up in cannibals. Cannibals find and eat a woman, but h...
J7 - A woman or girl goes to her husband (lover) or relatives, or a man goes to pick up a bride. She or h...
J7a - A girl (less often a boy) brings lunch to her father or brothers who work in the field (in the fores...
J8 - A woman or girl goes in search of her husband (groom, etc.). Bird feathers left on a trail, at a cro...
J9 - Before they are born, babies speak from their mother's womb, showing her the way. ...
J10 - A woman loses her way after being bitten by a wasp (or bee, ant, snake). She claps her stomach (eith...
J11 - son from his mother's womb asks to pick flowers or fruits for him (usually when a woman tears flower...
J12 - A girl or two sisters travel, usually looking for a suitable, gone or far away groom or husband. On ...
J12a - A girl or two sisters go to an old woman inviting her or them to marry her son. It's actually a worm...
J12b - groom or husband is a fragrant Honey or a skilled honey miner. See motive J12. ...
J12c - The girl meets her fiance at a dance and then follows in his footsteps. See motive J12. ...
J12d - After a girl marries a worthy fiancé, the rejected applicant or his relatives kill the rival. See m...
J12j - A girl or sisters come to a false fiancé who plays the role of a jester in the chief's house. See m...
J12k - Desired and unwanted marriage partners live in the same house. An unwanted person, a servant or juni...
J12l - The killer pretends to mourn the victim with everyone else. The deception is revealed, the murderer ...
J12m - A woman or two sisters come to two men and become the wives of one of them. The other one kills or t...
J13 - Not one woman, but two sisters (or more, but only two have an important role in the story) wander an...
J14 - To find the desired man, a woman goes to the sound of music or singing; she usually distinguishes im...
J15 - Going in search of a husband, relatives, etc., a woman, girl, or children accidentally go the wrong ...
J15a - Going on a journey (usually in search of a groom, husband, relatives), a woman finds herself in a ho...
J15b - Wandering, a woman finds herself in the house of a frog or toad. See motive J15. ...
J16 - The character dies because being forced to look for insects in another's head, refuses to bite throu...
J17 - Instead of lice, the character's hair contains other creatures, or he pretends to live in his hair. ...
J18 - A pregnant woman or woman with a baby falls from the sky. She or her daughter is dying or undergoing...
J18a - cannibal eats a woman, enters her house. A woman's daughters (daughter and son, one daughter) run aw...
J19 - While a husband or brother is hunting, an evil spirit comes to his wife or sister; he kills her or t...
J19a - When a woman is alone, a demonic character comes to her. He says that in order to do certain things,...
J19b - An evil spirit kills a woman by burning through her body. ...
J19c - A demonic character comes to a woman and pulls out her tongue. She dies (and comes back to life when...
J20 - While a husband or brother is hunting, an evil spirit comes to his wife or sister; he kills or maims...
J21 - Gods, human ancestors, and founders of dynasties are born from eggs. ...
J22a - Two men, or a brother and sister, emerge from one body or embryo cut in half, or the second comes fr...
J22b - A woman is cut or torn in half, two new ones are emerging. ...
J22c - There is a demonic character in the form of Siamese twins - two half-merged women. ...
J22d - Foreigners or animals come from an animal cut in half. ...
J22e - The second character emerges from the last of the first. ...
J23 - People in general or older brothers (siblings, older sister) disappear one after another. A woman ra...
J23a - A woman cries, the discharge from her nose (her tear) turns into a boy, he grows up, defeats strong ...
J23b - To defeat the monster, the young man (twins) prepares spears in advance and leave them along the int...
J23c - To make sure that an enemy is actually dead, an insect or bird enters his body from one end and come...
J24 - The powdered hero respawns. ...
J25 - Heroes (one, two, or one out of two), while still babies or foetuses, disappear or are thrown (often...
J25a - Mother dies or is murdered. A baby or newborn in her womb is buried with her. He comes out of the gr...
J25a1 - Woman dies but remains but remains imperishable and gives birth to a boy. He is found in her grave a...
J25b - A pregnant woman dies and is buried. Her spirit comes out of the grave to bring food to the baby. Th...
J26 - The character or egg from which he is born is found in a river, lake, sea; little heroes emerge from...
J26a - Among the children of a woman or two women living together are a boy and a puppy, or a woman was giv...
J27 - A little boy (several babies) was thrown away, born to a dead mother, lives in a river, in a forest,...
J27a - One of the babies is thrown out and lives in the river, in the forest, etc.; the other stays in the ...
J27b - baby is thrown into a lake or river and goes ashore from time to time. In addition to his earthly pa...
J28a - When asking how one of his parents died, the hero receives a number of false answers. He often expos...
J28b - When a woman (usually a hero's mother) is hiding the truth about his father, mother, brothers or bri...
J29 - The murdered parents themselves inform their children about the circumstances of their death. ...
J30 - Before heroes defeat or run away from antagonists, they find or receive the victim's remains or prop...
J31 - A young hero obtains and uses weapons or other powerful objects which belonged to his murdered fathe...
J32 - At night, someone regularly steals animals (horses, sheep, etc.) or crops (apples, hay, peas, flower...
J32a - When a person dies, he tells him to spend the night at his grave or bring something to the grave. ...
J32a1 - Every night somebody tramples down the grain field, steals hay, etc. The hero discovers that horses ...
J32b - To have time to do what he wants, the hero extends the night, changing the character's behavior, on ...
J32c - At night, a demonic character comes to the grave of the deceased, intending to harm him. ...
J32d - The girl will be received by someone who, on horseback or otherwise, quickly reaches a hard-to-reach...
J32e - hero manages to establish who is kidnapping newborn foals. ...
J32f - While on guard, the hero finds out who is stealing fruits (usually apples) from the garden. ...
J33 - A boy, boy, or two children live in the older character's house. In order to provoke a certain react...
J33a - A boy, boy or two children live in an old woman's house. They kill her husband, a human or a big ani...
J34 - After killing a dangerous enemy, the heroes scarecrow him, scaring his family. ...
J35 - A tree frog kills or neutralizes a demon or beast chasing heroes. ...
J36 - turtle drags the hero's parents under water. ...
J37 - Having turned into a powerful bird or created one, the hero lifts into the air and carries his oppon...
J38 - mighty bird pierces its claws into a huge aquatic creature. The claws are stuck in his body. The bir...
J39 - An antagonist makes a woman his slave. Other characters secretly come to her, killing a small animal...
J40 - powerful creature living in the sky takes a person or many people, or a person's head. The hero (usu...
J40b - After the hero comes back after a long absence and finds his parents enslaved, he tells them to demo...
J41 - The hero leaves for a long time When he returns, his relative or relative does not immediately belie...
J41a - The son returns and finds a mother who was humiliated and tortured in his absence. A son turns his m...
J41b - The son returns, finds a mother who was humiliated and tortured in his absence, burns the torturer a...
J41c - The character is going to fight a dangerous opponent. Along the way, he is offered tasks that he per...
J41d - To test his iron cudgel, sword or the like, strong man throws them into the air and catches (lets th...
J42 - The character creates a dry passage along the bottom of the reservoir, and after it passes, the wate...
J43 - To destroy antagonists, the hero creates an edible bait for them, usually a fruit tree on the other ...
J44 - The hero lures the enemy to a shaky bridge. The enemy falls into the water, into the abyss (see moti...
J45 - The character stretches out his leg (duffle: arm) or neck in the form of a bridge over a water barri...
J46 - Antagonists die when they fall into the water from a shore, from a bridge, or try to swim across a w...
J47 - The character climbs to heaven on a rope, ladder, etc. or climbs a tree or rock, or descends from th...
J47a - Bob or another plant with edible fruits grows to the sky, the character climbs it. ...
J47a1 - Person gets into a house inhabited by the goats. He secretly eats the food found there but is ultima...
J47b - The character runs away from the pursuer, a strong rope (chain, etc.) is lowered from the sky. A rot...
J48 - The character climbs into the sky or descends from heaven to earth on a rope. The parrot cuts the ro...
J49 - The wife and/or sister of the Month unsuccessfully tries to climb into heaven or reaches him, but re...
J50 - The father or mother of twin heroes dies or is killed. An attempt to revive the deceased fails. ...
J50a - A mother dies when her sons push or hug her. ...
J50b - father (alone or with his brother) is only partially resurrected and is unable to live among people ...
J51 - The character is dismembered or eaten; he is revived from his remains, but because one of the bones ...
J51a - To climb a rock or tower, you need to stick bones into it and climb them like stairs. ...
J51a1 - To get an object out of a hard-to-reach place, the girl tells her to dismember (or just cut off her ...
J51a2 - A girl must get into an inaccessible place using the chicken bones. Because a bone is lost or their ...
J51b - month was eaten or died and the body decomposed. It is being revived, but a small part (bone) is mis...
J52 - A character with more pronounced predator habits insidiously kills another who is associated with a ...
J52a - A bear or bear insidiously kills its companion, neighbor, etc., which is associated with a herbivoro...
J52b - girl, young woman, or children associated with hares (rabbits) are victorious heroes or successful t...
J53 - deer or deer fall prey to an antagonist (usually a large predatory beast). The victim's children tak...
J53a - The character invites someone else to play. He follows the rules, but the initiator of the game does...
J53a1 - The victim’s children kill the murderer’s children luring them in a place where the die of smoke...
J53b - Two women live together, each one has children. When they are outdoors, one of them kills another an...
J53c - Two co-wives of female companions live together, both have children. Once when they go to work outdo...
J53c1 - Two women live together, both have children. One of them kills and (later) eats another. The murdere...
J54 - Two women live together and both have children. One of them leaves the house with the other, kills h...
J54a - Two women, both or one of whom are animal characters, live together and have children. One of them k...
J54b - The antagonist's son and hero are half-brothers or half-brothers (uncle and nephew; brothers). When ...
J55 - While traveling, the hero meets characters who, without recognizing him, say they are expecting some...
J56 - A son or sons come to see their father. He tests them to see if they are really his children. ...
J56a - Brother heroes turn into pots or pans, but only the older one can sit on fire long enough. ...
J57 - A virgin girl is impregnated by the Sun and gives birth to a son or twin boys. When her son (or the ...
J58 - Characters fire arrows (darts) that pierce each other and form a chain. They usually take it to the ...
J58a - To cross the river, each of the three people uses their own magic method. ...
J58b - Using a chain of arrows, the sky or sun is pulled lower or moved higher, or a hole is made in the sk...
J58c - A chain of arrows forms a bridge over a water barrier. ...
J59 - To get to the sky, you have to fire an arrow that will pierce the sky. See motif J58; see J59A: A ma...
J59a - After firing an arrow, a person flies it, behind it or in front of it, or sends another person on a ...
J59b - To revive the deceased, the character shoots an arrow into the sky (it is assumed that the deceased,...
J59c - Person revives the dead beating the bones of corpse with the whip...
J59d - Person revives the dead stepping or jumping over his remains...
J60 - A woman conceives twins from two different fathers. ...
J61 - The character has the ability to move or hover in the air like a feather or a feather. ...
J62 - The character turns those who come to him into inanimate objects (usually stones). (In many cases, t...
J62a - The character turns people who come to him into plants (trees, flowers). The hero (heroine) remains ...
J62b - The character turns people who come to him into animals. Thanks to the hero, they're disgraced. ...
J62b1 - The sorceress who lives an island transforms men into animals...
J62c - To kill a young man, an antagonist makes his sister (rarely: himself) want to possess wonderful obje...
J63 - Enemies came and tied up my husband. The wife agreed to live with a new one, the old one is connecte...
J64 - Without coming into contact with fire, without burning, the character rises into the sky or crosses ...
J65 - After the enemies attack, a woman and her daughter remain. She rejects the matchmaking of animal gro...
J66 - The character cuts, gnaws through bow strings and other straps in advance, and holes boats, making i...
J67 - At night, the character puts light pebbles or shells over his eyes. Thinking that the character's ey...
J68 - Characters who have been chasing an animal for a long time see fresher droppings on the trail and fi...
J69 - Person is killed (with the cold weapon, with water of death) and then revived. Another person asks t...
K1c - A man is marooned on an islet, a rock but survives thanks to helpful birds and animals. The next tim...
K1d - The wife's brothers are trying to destroy the hero, leaving him on an island. ...
K1e - Person is marooned on an islet or on another side of a sea or wide river...
K1f - A man maroons another because of jealousy or because he plans to take hold of his wife...
K1g - The hero turns into a deer or creates a deer to care for a relative who sent him into a trap. ...
K1h - The character is inside a tree trunk or inside a rock; someone frees him by making a hole from the o...
K1i - A tree, reed, or vine grows near a rock, at the bottom of a hole, or in the lower world, along which...
K1j - An abandoned person turns into a bird and returns home faster than someone who left him. ...
K2 - The hero climbs or descends a ladder, rope, pole, etc. Rope, etc. is torn or cut off. Usually, anoth...
K2a - Hero is sent to the lower world though a well, precipice, etc. After he obtains valuables (young wom...
K2a1 - demon takes away a noble girl. An ordinary person accidentally witnesses a kidnapping or accidentall...
K2a2 - monster rushes past the young man, taking the princess away. The young man picks up the princess's l...
K2a3 - To maroon hero on a mountain, his companions destroy the rope or chain by which he climbed there or ...
K2b - The pastimes or only names of the hero’s companions are unusual and different but their specific q...
K3 - The hero climbs a tree or rock to get bird eggs, chicks, fruits, honey, etc. He can't go down becaus...
K4 - The character climbs a tree or rock to get a bird, bird eggs, chicks, climbs into a bird's nest; com...
K5 - To trap the hero and send him far away, the enemy makes fake birds from valuable materials (bodily s...
K6 - From tears, snot, urine, saliva, chewed substance, a vine or rope emerges. See K1A motif. ...
K7 - A person compares a particular object to the genitals of another's wife. The offended takes revenge....
K8a - The character enters the womb of an aquatic creature, or into the womb of a giant creature whose app...
K8aa - A huge bird swallows people. The hero kills her, freeing the swallowed ones, or, if swallowed by him...
K8b - The raven ends up in the whale's womb; the woman inside asks him not to touch a whale organ (usually...
K8c - The character enters the womb of an ordinary terrestrial animal, kills it from within (K952) and/or ...
K8c1 - The tiny little man was first accidentally swallowed by a large herbivorous animal, and then carried...
K8c2 - The mouse is swallowed by a large land animal and comes out, cutting it from the inside. ...
K8c3 - One (zoomorphic) character refuses to use any part of another's body other than the one he uses to k...
K8c4 - A small animal (most often a bird, mouse or porcupine) or (rarely) a tiny little man lets a large un...
K8c5 - Does a zoomorphic character no larger than a fox let a bear swallow himself and kill him, strife fro...
K8d - Person (often an animal-person) gets into the belly of anthropomorphic being. He kills it from the i...
K8e - Person or animal gets into another being through its anus...
K8f - A swallowed person discovers a live deer in the monster's womb. See K8A motif. ...
K9 - The heavenly leader (deity), accusing or suspected a woman of infidelity, affiliation with an animal...
K9a - The punished character is hung on a chain or metal thread between heaven and earth. ...
K10 - A monstrous bird (bat) attacks people, heroes fight against it. See K10A - K10G motifs. ...
K10a - Heroes kill a dangerous bird; during or before battle, they hide in a shelter (hut, cage, vessel, ba...
K10b - A huge bird carries a cage, bag or other container in which people are located to its nest. See moti...
K10c - The hero (twins) hangs around the animal's blood-filled intestines. The bird pierces them with its c...
K10d - A flying monster takes the hero to a distant island. The hero kills the monster and uses a boat, bri...
K10e - In the bird's habitat, the hero finds people kidnapped by it; helps them return home. ...
K10f - The character turns the children of a flying monster into ordinary eagles or owls. ...
K10g - Once in the nest of a giant bird on a tree or rock, a person descends to the ground with the help of...
K10h - The bird takes the woman or boy to its nest, supplies food, but does not let go. The captive or pris...
K10i - The tree opens its trunk and hides a hero running away from the cannibal bird. The next monster hold...
K11 - Brothers (brother and sister) kill a monstrous bird. Her eyes turn into heavenly bodies (for the Oax...
K11a - The feathers of a (huge) bird that are torn out turn into current birds or humans emerge from them. ...
K11a1 - Pierces of flesh or feathers of monstrous/unusual bird turn into common birds (or into their plumage...
K11b - bones of a huge bird turn into reeds or bamboo for making arrows or sarbacans. ...
K12 - The hero returns the woman that the opponent or rival tried to take away from him. ...
K12a - unrecognized hero comes to a place where his fiancée or wife must be given to another person or tur...
K12b - The hero enters a world outside the human world and marries there. The wife allows the hero to visit...
K13a - character's leg (rare: both legs) is cut off, bitten off, or torn off. The character rises to the sk...
K13b - A man crosses a pond on the back of a caiman. He bites off his leg. A cripple experiences metamorpho...
K13c - The cannibal's daughter takes revenge on her husband for the death of her mother, she manages to cut...
K13d - A group of boys reaches the sky, the last leg being cut off or torn off. ...
K14 - A person receives or buys simple advice, the meaning of which is not clear at first (traveling with ...
K14a - antagonist tells you to kill the one who comes first to the appointed place in the morning. The hero...
K14b - A person is advised not to do anything until he is urged to do so. He unwisely offers to use his kni...
K14c - Returning from a long absence and seeing signs that there is another man in the house, the man think...
K14d - To test his wife (friend, member of his household), a man pretends to commit a crime or his behavior...
K14e - Sons don't care about their elderly father (rare: daughter-in-law doesn't care about their mother-in...
K15 - The woman swears that she did not get along with anyone but (her husband and) a dirty beggar. Others...
K15a - The hero quietly replaces the weapon or magic tool of a powerful character with an unusable fake. Tr...
K15b - By quietly swapping vessels with living and dead (giving and taking strength) water (rarely: oil, et...
K15c - The owner of stone (ice) clothes kills people. By hiding or changing his clothes, the hero kills him...
K16 - Taking the form of a bird, bat, insect, small animal, fish, a man lets himself be caught by a girl o...
K16a - In an effort to show that he is a good hunter, a man regularly walks in front of the girl, pretendin...
K17 - A male character in the form of a bird penetrates a girl or magically or imperceptibly makes her pre...
K18 - A boy is born whose father or mother is unknown. He chooses a true father or mother, who usually has...
K18a - The boy's father is the man whose bow or arrow he chooses. See motif K18. ...
K18b - Men or women consistently approach or hold a little boy in their arms. A parent is someone or someon...
K18c - The boy's father will be recognized as the man in whose arms he describes himself. See motif K18. ...
K18d - young man lets go or save a fish (a frog, a snake, a supernatural creature), it fulfills his wishes ...
K19a - A man maries a star-woman...
K19b - A male star marries an earthly woman. ...
K19c - A person brings home a small creature with whom he makes love at night. A person's mother, sister, o...
K19d - Once in the sky, the star's husband suffers from the cold. He freezes to death or dies when he touch...
K19e - Returning from heaven to earth, a woman or two sisters run into a wolverine man trying to master the...
K19f - star or many stars are coming down from the sky to work on the field. See K19B motif. ...
K19g - One star is an old man, the other is young; both stars differ in brilliance or color, but it is impo...
K20 - Looking at the sky at night, a man or woman wants to marry a star or Month (kuchin: having a star as...
K21 - A girl goes to heaven and gets married there. ...
K21a - A celestial marries an earthly woman. She wants to return to earth and secretly descends from her hu...
K22 - Different from (ordinary) humans, inhabitants of a faraway country from time to time fight enemies o...
K22a - Birds or other creatures which not dangerous for common people attack dwarfs who live in another wor...
K22aa - A person enters a country whose inhabitants are birds that live with us in the summer, and when they...
K22b - The inhabitants of another world are being attacked by some enemies. Man helps to defeat them, becau...
K22c - Inhabitants of another world who are attacked by enemies that are dangerous for them, but not danger...
K23 - Birds attack people in another world or a person who is trapped in another world. See motif K22. ...
K23a - Birds use their feathers as arrows, or falling feathers cover their victims' mouths. ...
K24 - Women who have magical powers and usually come from another world (from the sky, from under the wate...
K24a - A man, who is usually inhuman, hides clothes or sits on the clothes of an ordinary earthly girl. To ...
K24b - The magical wife gets her wings back and flies away after she pretends that the clothes they hide fr...
K24c - A young man comes to an old man (less often an old woman), who teaches him to get a magical wife by ...
K25 - A person catches, grabs, meets a woman associated with the upper world (a bird, a heavenly maiden, a...
K25a1 - A magical wife leaves her earthly husband when she finds her clothes that he hid (often feathers if ...
K25a2 - An anthropomorphic character flies away or tries to fly away, attaching feathers dropped by birds fl...
K25a3 - The magical bird-wife flies away when she makes herself new feather clothes from feathers collected ...
K25a4 - A man (rarely a woman) is at the mercy of a water-chthonic creature (usually sirens, fish, sea monst...
K25a4a - A young woman is at the mercy of a water dweller, and if she goes to the ground, she is chained. To ...
K25a5 - The older brother is a hunter, the younger brother (rarely a sister) is at home. When he learns that...
K25a6 - A woman from another world agrees to live with an earthly man, but leaves him after learning about h...
K25a7 - The elder brother is a hunter, the younger one is a housekeeper. When the elder brother gets to catc...
K25b - A woman climbs a tree trying to catch a porcupine and finds herself in the sky. ...
K25c - Digging roots, collecting mollusks, etc., a woman finds a baby. He grows up, fights against dangerou...
K25d - digging a root, a person penetrates the sky or earth, sees the underlying world, and goes down there...
K25e - People in general, a certain ethnic or tribal group, or a ruling dynasty are considered descendants ...
K26 - When you go to or through a hole, the character sees the world below him (usually he sees the ground...
K26a - The hole in the sky is covered with a flat stone. Pushing it away, the character sees the ground. Se...
K27 - The character receives tasks that are deadly or can only be completed with supernatural abilities or...
K27a - Challenge: spend the night in the cold (the antagonist tries to destroy the hero in this way). See m...
K27b - The challenge: smoke a huge or poisonous pipe or breathe in clouds of toxic smoke. See motive K27. ...
K27c - The challenge: to stay alive when in contact with piercing, cutting, and pressing tools. See motive ...
K27d - Challenge: stay alive in a room full of predatory, poisonous, and other dangerous creatures. See mot...
K27e - The character is asked to eat or drink an unusually large amount or poison. ...
K27f - A powerful character requires the hero to get a woman. See motive K27. ...
K27f1 - The character builds a bridge (usually from precious materials) in an incredibly short time. ...
K27f2 - The girl requires the groom to get the same pair of shoes (or other items) as hers. These items eith...
K27f3 - The character must quickly get enough feathers to fill a feather bed or pillow with them. ...
K27g - character is ordered to bathe in (hot) milk, boiling water, jump into the fire, he is unharmed, and ...
K27g1 - The character must quickly clear the stable or stable from the manure that has accumulated there ove...
K27g2 - The character must cover the house with a roof made of bird feathers. ...
K27g3 - To knock down all the trees in the forest, a person knocks down one (slightly touching him with an a...
K27g4 - The character must carry out all the field work in an unthinkably short time and present the product...
K27g5 - A person tries or should try to cut or dig with a wooden tool instead of an iron one. ...
K27h - The hero must cut out an image of the character's head that he never shows. It usually adorns a wood...
K27h1 - The character is tasked with bringing the fruits of a tree that is difficult to reach. ...
K27hh - The character is instructed to quickly separate small particles of different varieties (usually seed...
K27i - The task: to drain a large pond. ...
K27k - A contest: to dive deep or for a long time...
K27l - The task: get an object from the bottom of the reservoir. See motive K27. ...
K27l1 - By voluntarily testing himself, the character allows himself to freeze into the ice and cannot free ...
K27m - The task is to kill and bring in an animal of a certain (often unusual) color or shape. See motive K...
K27n - A man must fulfill difficult tasks (to win competition) to receive the permission for a marriage...
K27n1 - character who gives a hero tasks that are impossible for an ordinary person (putting the hero to dif...
K27n3a - A character who offers difficult tasks or puts him to the test is associated with the sun, month, th...
K27n3a1 - In course of his matchmaking, hero comes into conflict with persons (more than two) who embody the e...
K27n3b - Person who gives difficult tasks or tests to the hero or heroine lives in the sky but is not associa...
K27n3c - character who offers a hero difficult tasks or puts him to the test is associated with a terrestrial...
K27n3c1 - Inhabitants of the village of the polar bears who are relations of the hero’s wife give him diffic...
K27n3c2 - The task-giver is the bear who is the hero’s father-in-law...
K27nn - Someone from the entourage of a powerful character seeks to lime the hero and persuades him to give ...
K27o - The confrontation between heroes and antagonists takes place in the form of a ball game. ...
K27o1 - The character plays with a severed human head like a ball. ...
K27o2 - To kill the hero, his enemies involve him into a game with a dangerous ball (or ice, stone, bone, ir...
K27o3 - Two groups of participants compete in fulfilling difficult tasks or are engaged into the game in whi...
K27p - The antagonist sends the hero to the place where he is attacked by dangerous creatures. The hero kil...
K27p1 - The enemy tells the hero to kill or tame a dangerous animal, or not to kill a specific animal while ...
K27q - The task is to get milk from a wild animal or milk owned by a dangerous creature. See motive K27. ...
K27q1 - The hero is sent to get a musical instrument, usually samogudas. ...
K27r - The assignment giver requires you to bring an item or message from the...
K27r1 - antagonist believes that the hero was burned, but returned safely from the dead, so he orders to bur...
K27r2 - The task is to bring objects (fruits, wood, water, etc.) that perform actions peculiar to humans (si...
K27s - Competition: running, racing. See motive K27. ...
K27ss - A strong man must overtake a woman, often an old woman. This fails or is difficult. ...
K27t - Competition: climb a pole. See motive K27. ...
K27u - The task is to hide (the hero finds the antagonist, or the antagonist cannot find the hero). See mot...
K27u1 - Someone demands that the baby be born the morning after conception or speak immediately after birth....
K27u2 - The powerful character tells you to find out where the tumbleweed is heading or what news from him. ...
K27v - The character must hit the bird with an arrow or stone. (Cf. K27M motif, where it's not the shooter'...
K27v1 - The character must hit the needle with an arrow (in the eye of a needle). ...
K27v2 - The character must hit an object or creature made of copper with an arrow. ...
K27v3 - The character must shoot an arrow through a small ring or several rings. (The main materials were id...
K27w - Task-giver asks to bring him dangerous being or object possessed by a moster or deity. Hero fulfills...
K27x - A man marries a woman from another world; a wife goes to her own world, a man follows her; there a w...
K27x1 - After receiving a difficult task (usually: to bring an object or creature that does not have specifi...
K27x2 - The character can get an egg or chick (and put them back) from under the bird in the nest, change th...
K27x3 - The power holder seeks to take over the wife or fiancée of a person with a lower social position an...
K27x3a - When the hero goes to fulfill a difficult task, his magic wife gives him her towel or handkerchief a...
K27x4 - character is told to climb a tree (pole, mountain, etc.), holding a full open vessel in his hand wit...
K27x5 - When you go in search of a woman or wonderful objects, a person consistently comes to characters of ...
K27x6 - Going in search of a marriage partner, the hero or heroine finds himself in the incarnations of star...
K27x7 - Along the way, a person meets characters who have power over animals (birds, fish). They call animal...
K27x8 - Only a frog (toad) knows the way to an unattainable object for ordinary people that the hero is look...
K27x9 - To bring an object from the sea bottom...
K27xy - Several men (animals), each of whom can do something better than others, together complete the diffi...
K27y - The hero is sent or, knowing the danger, goes to get various (at least two) materials for making a b...
K27y1 - The character thinks or pretends that the arrowheads should be made of bark, coal, grass, etc. mater...
K27yy - To get a feather, chick, bark, fruit, etc., the hero must climb a tree or rock where he is in danger...
K27yy1 - Hero brings a feather (feathers) of a dangerous bird...
K27yy2 - Hero is sent to bring a nestling of a dangerous bird...
K27yy3 - Hero is sent to bring fruits which grow on a tree that is dangerous to those who come near it...
K27yy4 - Hero is sent to get bark of a tree that is dangerous to those who come near it...
K27z - A character gains power over another by winning a game of chance or intellectual play (not in a spor...
K27z1 - The assistant teaches you how to steal the right object, but not to take anything else (take a bird,...
K27z2 - A noble woman is forced to leave home, gives birth to a son and is separated from him. The young man...
K27z2a - Having noticed a woman's pregnancy, her relatives or relatives accuse her of debauchery, because, ac...
K27z2a1 - The husband leaves his wife without getting along with her. The wife visits her husband incognito an...
K27z2b - difficult relationship between a simple girl and a prince leads to the fact that on the wedding nigh...
K27z2c - After marrying a poor girl, the prince leaves her locked up. She turns out to be smarter than he is....
K27z2d - male bird (sparrow, pigeon, etc.) abandoned the female with the chicks, and then claims the rights t...
K27z2e - When meeting (sometimes not in their original form), a young man or girl takes some items (jewelry) ...
K27z2f - A poor girl buys a doll (goose) that defecates in gold. When the neighbors took the doll, it only st...
K27z3 - The character taught a cat (monkey, dog) to hold a candle (lamp) or extinguish it at a signal. Seein...
K27z4 - The character always wins bets or beats others thanks to a trained cat (mouse, rat) that holds (or t...
K27z4a - cripple claims that the visitor's father took his leg (eye) and did not return it. The person's wife...
K27z4b - The husband leaves, meets the deceiver and loses to him everything he has. The wife comes disguised ...
K27z5 - Two men agree to marry children if one has a son and the other has a daughter. The girl's parents do...
K27z6 - After becoming a victim of injustice and suffering, a young woman talks about it to certain inanimat...
K27z7 - The character promises to comply with the request if the other finds out a secret that causes someon...
K27z7a - A man is going to kill someone who found out why he brutally punished his ex-wife. ...
K27z8 - A person makes a riddle that can only be solved by knowing the circumstances in which he was in. ...
K27z9 - A (dried) fish (water-spirit, satyr, etc.) laughs, smiles or spits because a man disguised as a woma...
K27zy - A young man (girl) lives in the house of a cannibal (witch). To destroy him or her, the cannibal tel...
K27zz - A person marries unaware that his wife is a cannibal/witch; she stalks former wives (often blinds or...
K27zz1 - Several wives were thrown into the dungeon (banished), each gave birth to a child, but only one mana...
K27zz2 - Several wives of one man (several sisters) go blind - the eldest in both eyes and the youngest one. ...
K27zz3 - father or stepmother (a werewolf) push/encloses female sisters (the girl and her maids) in a hole. T...
K27zz4 - The arrogant prince (the son of a merchant) beats his wife every day (he marries on the condition th...
K28 - The young hero's maternal uncle or father (or grandfather, if he replaces a father who is not mentio...
K29a - The hero demonstrates his magical abilities or cunning, staying alive in a hot bath, stove, fire, an...
K29b - hero is asked to climb into a hole, which is immediately covered with earth or into which a pole, st...
K29c - They hope to destroy the hero by knocking down a tree on him or tying him to a tree. He comes alive,...
K29d - To catch an animal or bird, water in the pond is replaced with wine, honey, etc., and an intoxicated...
K30 - A flying creature takes a woman away. The kidnapper is killed and/or the woman is running away from ...
K30a - The first ancestor's wife flies away with vultures (usually voluntarily, after she has already cheat...
K30b - A girl or a woman is prohibited to go outdoors and is abducted by the flying creature as soon as she...
K31 - The character makes wood into a marine mammal or fish. It kills his enemies or drags them into the o...
K32 - A man does not notice that another woman, an evil spirit, or a trickster man is replacing his wife o...
K32a - A man is carrying his wife or daughter. Another woman or demonic character replaces her when the man...
K32b - A man's mother takes the form of his wife to take her place. ...
K32b1 - man's mother-in-law takes the form of her daughter to take her place. See motif K32. ...
K32c - The liar takes the place of a real wife, and the real one becomes an owl. See motif K32. ...
K32d - As a result of the antagonist's machinations, a noble girl (young woman) or boy (boy) is turned into...
K32e - A negative character or locus is opposed to one or two positive characters like wood and gold and si...
K32f - A woman or girl raises a bird of prey, which brings her food and fire. This usually happens after an...
K32g - antagonist is executed by tying him to a horse (camel, bull) that drags him along the ground or tear...
K32g1 - The culprit is offered a choice of items that have utilitarian value (often forty, seven, three, etc...
K32h - antagonist is executed after being buried alive in the ground. ...
K32h1 - antagonist is executed by putting her in a barrel of nails and letting her down the mountain or by t...
K32h2 - A man executes his wife, leaving her to be eaten by ants. ...
K32h3 - antagonist is executed by burning him alive. (Episodes in which burning a character is not a punishm...
K32i - The girl finds the body of a young man who shows no signs of life and must sit next to him for a cer...
K32j - After learning from a young man that he has a beautiful sister, the king wants to marry her. The bri...
K32k - The false wife who acquired guise and place of the real one is a smelling bug or a grub...
K32l - The ruler gives horses (cows) to his subjects for fattening. Only the heroine returns her well-fed. ...
K33 - A woman is turned into an animal or pushed into water, into the lower world, or she herself is force...
K33a - Young siblings (usually brother and sister) leave home. One of them (rarely: several brothers), acci...
K33a1 - woman thrown into a well (into a pond, into a hole, etc.) gives birth to a child (twins, triplets) t...
K33a1a - A woman who was thrown into the water is swallowed by a fish (whale) but ultimately saved...
K33a2 - brother takes his sister to her fiance in a boat. The sister can't hear her brother's words. The wit...
K33a3 - A woman, turned into a turtle because of her rival's machinations, tries to establish contact with h...
K33a4 - A woman, turned into a medium-sized forest animal (lynx, she-wolf, vazhenka) because of her rival's ...
K33a5 - A woman who has become a duck (goose) because of her rival's machinations tries to establish contact...
K33a6 - kid (lamb, gazelle, etc.) runs up to the pond into which his mistress was pushed and says that they ...
K33a7 - After the death of her mother, a small girl suggests her father to marry another woman who is her te...
K33a8 - The heroine’s rival transforms her into a dove. The dove makes attempts to contact her children or...
K33b - The girl goes with her friends to the forest, to the river; everyone returns home, and she has to st...
K33c - A young man gets a girl inside a fruit or flower. ...
K33c1 - Thrown into the water, the character is embodied in a flower (usually a lotus). ...
K33d - A man discovers that a beautiful girl is hiding in the guise of an ugly mess or under the skin of an...
K33d1 - The young man does not know that a beautiful girl is hiding inside an object brought into his house....
K33e - Newborn babies disappear (die) one after another, but are returned to their wife or husband when the...
K33f - The character must fill one container (pool, stream) with honey and the other with butter (milk, etc...
K33g - person who has eaten a fruit (leaf, etc.) grows horns (long nose, etc.) or becomes an animal, and th...
K33h - A person finds a magic object that fulfills any desire. This item has been stolen. It is returned by...
K33h1 - The hero’s wife (mother, servant) does not know about the magic qualities of an object in their ho...
K34 - The character puts others on a swing and, rocking, throws them (or threatens to throw them) into the...
K35 - The deceiver pretends to be a hero in order to take his position (to take possession of his woman). ...
K35a - character who demonstrates extraordinary abilities in obtaining food or fighting enemies agrees to g...
K35a1 - Once on a journey, a person (often against the advice of his horse) picks up a precious pen. After l...
K35a2 - A man kills an animal with glowing skin. After learning about this, the powerful character gives him...
K35a3 - To get the privileges that the hero has, the deceiver manages to change clothes and names with him, ...
K35a4 - To get rid of the hero and take his position, the deceiver pushes him into the sea or leaves him on ...
K35a5 - The powerful character leaves a sign (letter) for the little boy that when the boy grows up and come...
K35a6 - Person finds an objects (usually a feather) with which he illuminates his room...
K35a7 - Person finds a feather that has a quality to make alive beings healthy and handsome...
K35b - The hero gives rivals the food that the king sent them all for, but what rivals buy turns out to be ...
K35c - Dev (Azhdaha, king of the sea) did not kill the man who came down to him, as people expected, but re...
K35c1 - young man was not killed, but rewarded, because he correctly (evasively) answered the question of a ...
K35c2 - When the ship suddenly stops, the hero descends to the bottom of the sea, behaves correctly with the...
K35c3 - Because of the reason that for some time remains unclear a ship stops in the middle of the sea (rare...
K36 - The hero (heroine) is temporarily turned into an animal (usually a dog/coyote or a donkey withered f...
K37 - In order to return or receive a wife, son or husband (also a pet or object in Africa), a person must...
K37a - The character must identify a son or husband among many identical people or animals. ...
K37b - A man must recognize blindly the woman that he is eager to marry. He does it knowing that one of her...
K37c - The character must identify an animal or object among several identical ones. See motif K37. ...
K37d - The character learns about the presence of another person by noticing traces of his teeth on the fet...
K37e - The clairevoyant is unable to pinpoint a person who betrayed a secret because doing this, the latter...
K38 - For doing good to chicks (rarely: flying snake cubs), their grateful mother does a favor to a person...
K38a - Once in the lower world, the hero sees white and black horses, rams, etc. White will take you to the...
K38b - A serpent or water monster regularly devours or injures children of powerful being (almost always ne...
K38b1 - Every time a mare gives birth to a wonderful foal, a bird takes it away. Going in search of foals, t...
K38b2 - A character (almost always a giant bird) brings or leads the hero to his nest, after which he accide...
K38b3 - The hero feeds, heals, decorates or protects the chicks of a giant bird (the Finns have a flying dra...
K38b3a - Mighty bird helps a man because he had given food to its nestlings...
K38b3b - Mighty bird (more rare other creature/mythological person) helps a man (rare: a woman) because he (s...
K38b4 - Powerful bird has its nest on the tree that stands in or nearby the body of water. The serpent (rept...
K38c - The hero helps the bird (usually does good to its chicks), a grateful bird brings it to the place he...
K38d - A strong and dangerous character prevents others from using water (or sending floods), in most cases...
K38d1 - Fearing a monster living in the water or wanting to stop the flood, a girl is sacrificed or voluntar...
K38e - Loci or objects made of three (rarely four) materials with different degrees of value are mentioned,...
K38e1 - Characters drive (pass) through a forest with two or more types of metal trees (copper, silver, etc....
K38e2 - Returning from the lower world to earth, the princess places the surrounding objects (clothes, house...
K38e3 - In a row of three (less often two or four) loci or objects associated with materials of high but var...
K38e4 - A palace (castle, crypt, church, bridge) made of gold and silver modules (usually bricks, more rare ...
K38f - A monster with reptile features requires human casualties (devours people; kidnaps a girl; closes wa...
K38f1 - When killing a monster or animal, the hero cuts off and hides part of its body, usually his tongue; ...
K38f2 - girl saved by the hero stains him with the blood of the monster he killed. When the deceiver claims ...
K38f3 - To kill the dragon, the hero digs a hole and hides in it. When a dragon crawls nearby or above a hol...
K38f4 - From the mouth of a monstrous creature or person who is the enemy of the hero fire is coming out; it...
K38f5 - From the mouth of a horse fire is coming ot the horse itself is of fire...
K38f6 - A creature that consists of fire is mentioned...
K38f7 - Person obtains some wild animals (of two or more different species) who serve him like dogs...
K39 - The character must feed a powerful creature by regularly throwing pieces of meat at him. The harvest...
K40 - Two (less often more) characters consider themselves doomed to death, but the one who dies later rej...
K41 - A character representing a thunderstorm or giant bird fights a snake or other large creature living ...
K42 - A young female bird vigorously searches for someone she likes among a group of men, forcibly takes h...
K43a - People leave a boy, girl, sister and brother, young woman or young couple alone and leave. Someone s...
K43b - People leave a boy, girl, sister and brother, young woman or young couple alone and either leave or ...
K43c - connected children (boy and sister) are left alone in an empty camp, and the animal frees them. ...
K44 - The character kidnaps a boy or hides him from his mother or father, and says he is his mother or fat...
K44a - An amphibian (frog, toad, rare newt) steals or finds a boy, lies him that she is his real mother...
K44b - The hero or heroine returns after a long absence. When he sees (usually climbing to the roof of the ...
K45 - A man swims away from the woman chasing him or walks away from her on a sledge; when she tries to gr...
K45a - A man rides away from a woman or girl in a boat (on raft). When she tries to snatch a border of the ...
K45b - A man and a woman of different generations (the father and the daughter, the son and the mother) get...
K46 - In a fit of fear or shame, a woman or girl runs to the sea, throws herself into the water or hides o...
K47a - A woman takes a dog as a lover or husband, or conceives it from a dog. Her children grow up to be pe...
K47b - A woman marries a man who originally looked like a dog. The birth of children from a dog is insignif...
K47c - From a woman's marriage to a dog, dogs are friends and helpers. ...
K47d - The girl gives herself to the dog because he fulfills the marriage condition set by her or her fathe...
K48 - antagonist tells the hero's wonderful bird to sing or talk, but it is silent or screams in the wrong...
K48a - hero's costume and/or hat is decorated with live birds or animals. Usually an antagonist steals clot...
K49 - A woman turned into an animal or outside the human world returns to her child to feed and care for h...
K50 - A person comes to the enemy disguised as a woman and kills him at night (usually cuts off his head a...
K51 - The husband feigns death, disappears or leaves home for a long time. The wife finds out that he has ...
K51a - The old wife comes to her new wife in her husband's absence and kills her by pushing her head into b...
K51b - One young woman (small girl) kills another and puts her dead body in such a position that one could ...
K52 - A woman or boy who comes to the shore is carried to the bottom by the predatory inhabitants of the s...
K52a - The hero comes to the bottom of the sea for a woman A slave floods the hearth in the aquatic house. ...
K52b - The hero comes to get the daughter of a supernatural creature. He sees a slave breaking an ax (teslo...
K52c - Demonstrating his strength, a shaman, sorcerer, or other character with magical powers makes the hom...
K52c1 - Demonstrating his strength, a shaman, sorcerer, or other character with magical powers makes the hom...
K53 - The character temporarily turns into an animal or bird of a certain species by wearing its skin, or ...
K54 - you meet a giant or snake, a person is afraid of him, but he becomes his friend and asks for help wh...
K54a - A man and his friendly giant live together. A friendly man fights with another giant, asks a person ...
K55 - A powerful character finds out if his guest made love to his daughter or wife (if the character is f...
K56 - One girl, girl, or young woman (one man's wife) meets a character who can reward and punish. She's b...
K56a - Two or three sisters go successively to a powerful character. The first or the first two act incorre...
K56a1 - groom, the giver of well-being, tells the girl who comes to do work that she is unable to do herself...
K56a2 - The character (usually a girl) comes to another (usually an old woman). He asks the person who comes...
K56a2a - A girl becomes beautiful or ugly after being washed with water of a certain color. ...
K56a2b - A supernatural character asks a girl to buy (feed) his (her) children. They are snakes, beetles, or ...
K56a3 - wandering girl or girl should not tie ties, shoelaces on shoes or clothes. She does it and gets into...
K56a4 - When a kind girl returns home, an animal or bird (usually a dog) reports that she is doing well, and...
K56a4a - Left alone with a demon in the bathhouse (at the mill, etc.), the girl demands that he bring her mor...
K56a4b - The girl was told to peel the yarn, or spin, weave. The wind blows away the yarn (canvas, spindle), ...
K56a4c - A person is instructed to wash white something black or daughter something white (yarn, clothes, boa...
K56a4d - On the way to a dangerous character, a person lubricates the gate (door hinges) with grease or oil. ...
K56a4e - The supernatural person gives similar containers to the good and to the evil person. Opening them, o...
K56a5 - An old or ugly woman, without expecting to become a young beauty or finding wealth. Usually another ...
K56a5a - To become a young beauty, an old or ugly woman asks to peel off her skin. Cf. motive H4. ...
K56a5b - A person kindly answers the question of characters who embody the weather at certain periods of the ...
K56a5c - A person kindly answers the question of characters who embody the weather in certain months of the y...
K56a5d - A person kindly answers the question of a character who embodies the cold, praises him, and is award...
K56a6 - On their way to another world, people or objects ask the child (girl) to eat the food they offer or ...
K56a7 - In winter, a girl (rarely a boy) is sent to bring what is normally available only in summer. It brin...
K56a8 - A girl marries an animal or brings with her an animal that turns into a handsome man (or a young man...
K56a8a - The girl goes to another world, behaves correctly, returns with an animal or object inside which the...
K56a8b - A good girl (usually the daughter of a dog) wants to commit suicide and puts her hand in the snake's...
K56a8c - A young man brings to his place an animal, it turns into a girl. Another man marries a dog (pig) but...
K56a9 - When a small animal (usually a mouse) rings a bell, knocks on a drum, etc., a blind or farther away ...
K56aa - Two or three sisters successively become the dog's brides. The first or the first two act incorrectl...
K56ab - The girl marries a monster. On her wedding night, he tells her to take off her shirt and she tells h...
K56ac - A girl gets to the house in the forest. The bear comes and tells her to prepare him a bed of stones ...
K56b - First one, then another man meets a powerful person or persons. The first man is worthy and rewarded...
K56b1 - poor man goes looking for fire. The old man gives him coals by the fire. At home, they turn into gol...
K56b2 - A supernatural being (object) gives wealth to a humble person. Greedy, trying to take more than he s...
K56b3 - Intestine gases of a man become fragrant. His rival attempts to achieve the same effect but the resu...
K56c - A man loses an axe. The spirit or leader offers him a golden axe, the person says that the axe is no...
K56d - One person heals a bird, it brings a seed, and something valuable grows. Another deliberately maims ...
K56d1 - Pumpkins or watermelons given to humans (grown from donated seeds) contain treasures. ...
K56e - Two men have a similar defect (a hump, a lump). One spends a night in a place where spirits free him...
K56e1 - A man gets to see dwarfs (ghosts, witches) who dance and sing. They mention some days of the week in...
K56f - A person divides a roast rooster (goose) according to the social ranks of those present (the owner -...
K56f1 - It is necessary to divide five chickens (geese, etc.) between six eaters (possibly different numbers...
K56f2 - To divide a certain (often five) number of eggs equally between people of different sexes, a clever ...
K57 - The girl hides her beauty and/or languishes in poverty, a high-status man sees her in her real guis/...
K57a - A noble young man, who treated an insignificant maid rude and disdainfully, does not recognize her i...
K57b - To detain a fleeing beauty, a man in love with her smears the threshold (porch) with resin and glue....
K57c - The prince puts the ring on the beauty's finger, not knowing that she is the same girl who works in ...
K57d - Prince brings a shoe to marry a girl whose foot it fits. To meet such a standard, some girls cut off...
K58 - To get the hand of the chosen one, the character builds a canal or aqueduct. Usually, a woman does n...
K58a - The character draws water for irrigation or a fish river to where the girl agrees to meet him, and d...
K59 - One person puts another in a box and closes the lid, or ties another to a board, boat, etc., throws ...
K60a - Unaware of the danger, the character allows himself to be tied tightly. ...
K60b - Person is lured into a trap being invited to lie in a box or a hole to measure it. Being unable to l...
K60c - The obstinate wife of a decent person goes on a date with a demon or servant. He hits her, but she p...
K61a - To find out the exact number, a specific object in a set, the name of a particular character, or the...
K61a1 - Two men sleep (hide themselves) in one bag. Supernatural person takes them for an unknown monster an...
K61b - To find out the names of strangers, the character finds or creates a situation in which strangers sa...
K61c - demon undertakes to help (agrees not to harm) a person on the condition that he guesses his name. At...
K61c1 - A person will die if he does not find an answer to the demon's question. A person or an acquaintance...
K61d - A young woman accidentally gives her groom, husband or mother-in-law the impression that she works h...
K61e - Seeing a ridiculous situation, a powerful (supernatural) character laughs and thus usually recovers ...
K61f - Fearing her husband's anger, a childless woman pretends to have given birth. The husband believes th...
K62a - mouse (rat, mole, etc.) and a bird quarrel after they cannot share their supplies for the winter. (T...
K62a1 - A person saves (spares) and cares for an injured bird. Having gained strength, the bird puts it on i...
K63 - A person comes to people who hunt people or catch human fish. For them, these are wild animals or fi...
K64 - Once in the home of a herd owner or wildlife owner, the character fears that the owner will kill him...
K64a - A person blinds a cannibal giant who has fallen asleep or unable to move and flees from him. ...
K64b - The hero's opponent provokes him to touch an object that turns out to be sticky. The hero sticks to ...
K64c - A man who gets to destroy the only (healthy) eye of the monstrous man or woman is a smith...
K65 - Being thrown off, thrown away, placed in certain places, born by ancestors, creatures of a certain c...
K65a - When dropped from a height or thrown away, different creatures fall into different loci, receiving a...
K65b - Spirits (deities) or unpleasant animals (snakes, frogs, worms, etc.) were generated by the same firs...
K65c - A woman hides some of her children (rarely all) or some pets from God. According to him, hidden chil...
K65c1 - A woman gives birth to many children, but she hides some of them from God. The hidden ones become th...
K65c2 - A woman or female animal gives birth to several sons, including a human and a tiger. ...
K65d - The first human couple first has only miscarriages, or their children are spirits or unpleasant and ...
K65e - A woman is invited to an inhuman world, where she gives birth to one of the creatures (or serves as ...
K65e1 - A woman is summoned to help supernatural being as a midwife (to baptize a baby). In the human world,...
K65f - Once in the locus of demons, a person sees them in their true form. When a person returns, he sees a...
K66 - Each of several companions or brothers is somewhat superior to other people (he sees, hears, runs be...
K66a - princess (inheritance) is inherited by someone who builds (obtains) a ship that can move on the grou...
K66b - Wandering from one place to another, the hero leaves one of his companions in each of them (usually ...
K66c - The bear takes a woman for sexual partner or the she-bear takes a man. They have children who look l...
K66d - The (adopted) human child of a bear has superhuman strength...
K67 - At night, one is going to throw another's shoes or clothes into the fire, but eventually his shoes o...
K67a - A low-status character annoys high-status characters. When he learns that high-status characters int...
K67b - A character of low social status (who does not have supernatural abilities) undertakes to work for a...
K67c - The character agrees that under certain conditions, another may tear off his back, or cut off his ea...
K67d - An employee (rarely a husband) has annoyed the owner (wife) so much that he or she decides to flee, ...
K67e - The bargain between two persons is to end when a bird whose call is related to particular time of a ...
K67f - A fool (trickster) is told to slaughter any sheep (cow, ox) that will look at him, i.e. it’s all t...
K67g - Pretending that he is acting according his master’s instructions, the farmhand cuts off the lips o...
K67h - When the farmhand is sent to the place where he is expected to be killed by wild beasts, he subdues ...
K68 - A strong person takes food from a weak person, forces him to work for himself (usually a son-in-law ...
K69 - Several men walk to the horizon to go up to heaven from there to visit the Sun or another supreme de...
K70 - One man marries a girl, the other (usually the brother of the first) marries a frog or a toad, or a ...
K71 - coyote brother successfully defends himself against enemies as long as the coyote does not violate a...
K72 - A high-status character meets or marries three (less often two or four) women. One (promises to give...
K72a - The king notes that his ban on lighting lights at night has been broken. ...
K73 - A young wife (promises to give birth and) gives birth to wonderful children (or one son). In the abs...
K73a - Ill-wishers of a woman in labor replace a baby with animals or inanimate objects (they inform the ba...
K73a1 - Ill-wishers of a woman in labor replace the baby with a broom (they tell his father that his wife ga...
K73a2 - After hiding or throwing away a newborn baby, the woman's rivals replace him with a stone (pestle, g...
K73a2a - Hostile women substitute baby of the newly made mother with a piece of wood and/or inform the baby�...
K73a3 - Ill-wishers of a woman in labor replace the baby with a statue, a doll, a piece of wood (they tell h...
K73a4 - Ill-wishers of a woman in labor replace the baby with a puppy (they tell his father that his wife ga...
K73a5 - Ill-wishers of a woman in labor replace the baby with a kitten (they tell his father that his wife g...
K73a6 - A woman's detractors kill (throw away) her wonderful children. Their remains grow into trees (flower...
K73b - A woman who is falsely accused of killing her newborn child or giving birth to a puppy instead of a ...
K73b1 - A woman and her newborn son (a pregnant boy) are placed in a barrel (box; rarely: in a boat) and low...
K73b2 - The woman's children were replaced by puppies, and the woman was punished. Puppies stay with the wom...
K73b3 - A person who is asked to count the nuts in a barrel (take the nuts out piece by piece) accompanies h...
K73b4 - A person is asked to fill the bag (pot) with truth (lies, fairy tales). He complies with the require...
K73b5 - The woman is accused of actions that she, by nature, could not commit. To deny the charge, an exampl...
K73b6 - You need to boil the pot, telling an incredible and yet happened story. ...
K73b7 - Hero saves magic wife from her enemy when both, the future wife and the enemy, have the animal guise...
K73c - The girl ends up in a bird's nest (usually a bird takes a baby girl to it). The bird takes care of t...
K74 - Of the two or more characters, each successively stays at home or goes for a fire to cook or brings ...
K74a - A demonic character comes and mocks one of the remaining men in the house. When the hero remains, he...
K75 - A girl (usually the youngest sister) does not reject a hero who temporarily looks like an animal, fr...
K75a - The character chooses one of many contenders (a woman - a husband, a boy - a father, a boy - a bride...
K75a1 - The ruler tells the youngest daughter and her chosen husband to live in conditions that do not corre...
K75a2 - The unrecognized hero works as a gardener at the powerful person...
K75a3 - The unrecognized hero works as a groom for the powerful person...
K75b - Wanting to show that it is time for them to get married, daughters of different ages send their fath...
K75c - Devil promises a person wealth if he does not wash (cut his hair, etc.) for a while; both keep their...
K76 - A boy born or picked up has a strange or ugly appearance (ball, nut, bag, half human, dwarf, animal)...
K76a - frog or a toad marries a beautiful woman, or a handsome young man marries a frog. ...
K76b - The son or adopter of the spouses is a snake. He turns into a person, usually marrying a high-status...
K76c - The son or adopter of the couple is pumpkin or (rarely) watermelon. Or a girl has the image of a pum...
K76d - The son or adopter of the spouses is a hedgehog. He marries a princess and turns into a handsome man...
K76e - The son (daughter) or adopter of the spouses is a pig. He marries a princess, turns into a handsome ...
K76f - The young man, who looks like a calf, marries and then turns into a handsome man. ...
K76g - The son or adopter of the spouses is cancer (crab). He marries a princess and turns into a handsome ...
K76h - A young man who temporarily has a strange or monstrous appearance (freak, animal, etc.) marries the ...
K77a - Various objects and animals (rare: only animals, but including those that are actually safe and are ...
K77b - After leaving their owners, pets find an empty house or build a house. There are robbers or beasts o...
K77b1 - When pets find the head or skin of a predator, they show it to other predators, who flee in fear. ...
K77b2 - A predator animal asks a goat (a ram, etc.) about a purpose of certain parts of his body. The goat d...
K77b3 - Goats meet a wolf. One goat has one belly, another has two bellies, the third one has three bellies,...
K77c - Objects and/or domestic animals live in a house. When dangerous enemy comes, they attack him, he die...
K78 - cannibal swallows people. When he's killed, it turns out they're not in his womb or they're dead the...
K78a - The demonic character swallows the cripples and regurgitates them healthy and prettier. ...
K79 - When helpless, a person sees a small animal finding a cure for itself or another animal. A person us...
K80 - The character turns into objects or creatures that the other consistently destroys. However, the cha...
K80a - An object or creature that arose from the remains, jewelry, etc. of the victim talks about the murde...
K80a1 - bird (usually arising from the remains of the victim or embodying his soul) talks about the crime co...
K80a2 - part of a victim's body or a plant that grew at the scene of the murder tells people about the crime...
K80a3 - Members of the same family (girls, young women or children) go to the forest for berries. They envy ...
K80a4 - The character is buried (often alive) or falls into the ground. His hair turns into grass (spines, b...
K80a5 - Brothers competing as suitors or heirs must get wild boar. The youngest can do it. The elders kill h...
K80b - The (step)mother kills or orders to kill her small (step)son, eats him or feeds his flesh to her hus...
K80c - Before death, the victim of murderers turns to birds (luminaries, animals, plants, etc.). Later, whe...
K80c1 - After committing a misdemeanor or crime, a person brings home or brings something to eat (veal head,...
K80c2 - Two (or more) people find (steal) valuables. Not wanting to share, one kills the other, but dies him...
K80c3 - Before he dies, a man asks his murderer to tell his pregnant wife to give the newborn a specific nam...
K80c4 - In a deserted place, one person kills another. Over time, he is exposed due to facts and circumstanc...
K80d - A young woman or man is bewitched (turned into a bird, animal, immobilized) when a pin or other shar...
K81 - For a misdemeanor or on false charges, a man maims and kicks her out of the house, or (rarely) kills...
K81a - A girl with the cut off hands comes to the fruit tree (into the vegetable garden) to find food. A pr...
K82 - man's wife or another woman tries to kill his sister. ...
K82a - An ill-wisher makes a woman swallow a snake egg (snake, something else) so that the man thinks that ...
K83 - To heal, rejuvenate, or save a father, father-in-law, or sister, you should bring medicine (a doctor...
K83a - To fulfill their mission, persons sons must reach a place where he never been (or which he reached i...
K84 - The young man gives his sisters for the first to come to marry. They are animals or demons who then ...
K85 - antagonist owns the fastest horse. The hero gets an even faster one (usually the brother or sister o...
K85a - When assessing the speed of a horse's running, the speed of thought (lightning, something else) and ...
K85b - three-legged horse is strong and fast, and is ridden by an inhuman rider. ...
K85c - three-legged horse is strong and fast, but its four-legged brother is faster than him. ...
K85d - By ordering to cover itself with skins (cover with resin and sprinkle with sand, etc.), the heroic h...
K85e - Magic horses live under the water...
K86 - Because a small child is ignored or punished by its parents (usually it cries late in the evening), ...
K87 - A girl or girl becomes an animal's wife against her will. Usually, a forest (water) dweller feeds hi...
K87a - A forest woman gets or kidnaps a little boy and raises him to make him her lover. ...
K87a1 - Mother of a baby child is asked by demonic woman to give her the baby for a short while or the demon...
K87b - A woman picks berries, steps into bear droppings, scolds bears. An insulted bear takes her away and ...
K88 - Two people go on a journey or argue what is stronger: true or false (stinginess or generosity, etc.)...
K88a - A stepmother (aunt, rival) dazzles a young woman. She regains her eyes (often exchanges them for som...
K88b - The character is thirsty or hungry. His companion promises to share water or food with him if he let...
K88c - Person gets to know that the blood (brain, etc.) of a dog who guards sheep nearby can cure the sick ...
K89 - After getting married, the heroine and her rival (witch, frog) must bring gifts from their relatives...
K89a - After getting rid of the danger, a girl or boy goes with his sister or brother. The sister or brothe...
K89b - At the beginning of the story, a sister breaks up with her brothers (or one brother) who die, stay i...
K89c - The girl breaks up with her brother or sister. One or that becomes the wife or husband of a bear or ...
K89d - Left alone in the house or in someone else's house, a girl (less often a male character) hides, turn...
K90 - A person sees two opposing monsters or animals (usually in contrasting colors: red and black, black ...
K90a - Seeing two contrasting colored snakes fight, a person tries to hit one, but accidentally hits the ot...
K90b - antlers of a deer or the tusks of an elephant that a serpent or dragon tries to swallow get stuck in...
K91 - Dogs, the hero's horse, or he himself fight against the enemy in the lower world. Those in the dista...
K92 - father asks the children a question, the answer to which seems obvious (does his daughter love him, ...
K92a - Kicked out of the house or married to an insignificant poor man, a girl becomes rich and respected. ...
K92b - The daughter replies to her father (rarely her brother) that she loves him like salt (or that salt i...
K93 - After a series of adventures and victories, the hero gets into trouble. His twin or brother follows ...
K93a - When lying down with a woman, a man puts a sharp or prickly object between her and himself as a sign...
K93b1 - After eating fish, a childless woman gives birth to a boy or twins. ...
K93b2 - A childless woman conceives a child after eating a fruit (usually an apple; in northern traditions, ...
K93b3 - To have a baby, a woman eats fish, an apple, or something else. Some (often peels, decoctions, peels...
K93b4 - When a woman gives birth to a son, a mare (dog, and/or other pets) gives birth to a boy at the same ...
K93b5 - Person gets into the place of his antagonists acquiring guise of a pup or a kitten. Usually one of h...
K94 - Eating a wonderful bird, fish, animal or fruit gains wealth and power. ...
K95 - Two people who love each other (usually a man and a woman) die untimely and are buried in the same g...
K95a - Lovers are buried in the same grave or nearby. Two plants that stretch towards each other grow in th...
K96 - Several (more than three) brothers are getting married or must marry in such a way that their wives ...
K97 - A man is preparing to kill, but not a big bird. When the bird later carries it, it pretends to leave...
K98 - An animal or (less commonly) a woman who gave birth to or helped a hero becomes a home and property....
K99 - A person dreams about an upcoming celebration for him or a member of his family (rarely: he dreams a...
K99a - A young man or girl (often after dreaming) declares that he (her) has a great future (usually that h...
K99a1 - man thrown into prison is released and exalted, because only he manages to solve the riddles given t...
K99a2 - A person sees a dream, and another person buys it and finds what was predicted in the dream. ...
K99a3 - A person dreams of the sun, moon and stars (all together or part of the above). At the end of the st...
K99b - The girl and the boy agree that he will take her away at night. The young man is late or falls aslee...
K100 - A person learns of the dangers facing another (and usually that by warning his friend/master, he wil...
K100a - When going on a journey, the young man releases the caught fish, an animal, or he or his father does...
K100b - A person helps to bury a dead man (pays his remaining debt, pays tribute to the saint). A living dea...
K100c - A woman (rarely a young man) does not know that there is something dangerous for her marriage partne...
K100d - At the end of the story, an assistant animal (horse, lion, etc.) automatically turns into a prince (...
K100e - Fairy tales act like separate characters: they usually try to harm people by believing that someone ...
K100f - A person caught an unusual fish (rarely: a bird or some aquatic creature). His son (employee) lets h...
K100f1 - A person (usually a king) catches a strange (anthropomorphic) creature. His son releases the wonderf...
K100f2 - The imprisoned supernatural person breaks his chains and escapes after they give him some water (or ...
K100g - To revive or heal a friend (heal himself, fulfill his vow), the character agrees to sacrifice his li...
K100h - The character satisfies the wishes of each of several men, and later visits them again. Most are ung...
K101 - A girl or boy disappears at night. Usually, a girl's clothes or shoes are worn out overnight, or the...
K101a - A man spends several nights next to a dead girl who has become a dangerous demonic creature. As a re...
K101b - girl or boy is disgraced after the hero endures the torment or fears to which demons expose him for ...
K101b1 - The enchanted person (a palace where he or she is) changes his (her, its) appearance gradually as fa...
K101c - The bride makes a condition that she will be with her husband only during the day. The husband finds...
K102 - A woman who initially is friendly to the hero (his mother, sister, more rare his wife, sexual partne...
K102a - A man tells the boy's sister, wife or mother to be killed. The young man does not allow such an orde...
K102a1 - To hide the truth, a person buries an animal or inanimate object and says that another's wife (bride...
K102a2 - A woman seeks to kill her adult son. ...
K102a3 - Someone (usually a woman) puts a poisonous tooth (bone, nail, etc.) into the hero's bed. The young m...
K102a4 - A character hostile to a young man is behind a water barrier. The boy's sister or mother helps him c...
K102a5 - A woman should fill one or two vessels with tears. (Usually, after that, her sentence must end, or t...
K102b - To destroy a hero (heroine), the antagonist must first get rid of his horse. When the horse is ready...
K102c - The enemy takes possession of an item that makes the hero invulnerable and kills him. The hero is al...
K103 - pet (horse, cow, ox, goat, sheep, sheep) helps an orphan, a lonely child, and an unhappy young woman...
K103a - suddenly grown tree (vine, etc.) deviates (raises branches, etc.), preventing the antagonist from cl...
K103b - cow miraculously spins or weaves: it chews a tow, turning it into thread, telling you to wind the ya...
K103c - Sitting on a bull or in the wild, a boy or girl runs away from his stepmother's house. On the way, t...
K103d - An animal (a demonic being) asks the hero or heroine to take objects necessary for him (her) from it...
K104 - youngest brother stays at home, injures a red swan or duck, and follows in his footsteps. ...
K105 - A despised wife gives birth to wonderful children, and other wives produce animals. ...
K106 - hero (a wonderful baby, a magic rooster) is thrown under the feet of animals, but they do not trampl...
K107 - A magical husband leaves his wife. She finds it and returns it. ...
K107a - Before reaching the goal, the character must wear an iron shoe or an iron staff. ...
K107a1 - When the father leaves, the daughter asks for an object to be brought to her. This object is an unus...
K107a2 - A noble person (king) is forced to promise a daughter or son to a demon (monster, predatory beast). ...
K107b - One of the spouses forbids the other to see himself, appears only at night. When another, willingly ...
K107c - magical spouse who arrives in the form of a bird or otherwise appears meets a girl. Envious sisters ...
K107d - Having overcome difficulties, a girl (rarely a young man) finds a magical spouse, but at first she c...
K107d1 - Waiting for a magical wife, the young man falls asleep. His wife cannot wake him up and leaves (the ...
K107e - A woman remains pregnant for many years and gives birth only after her wonderful husband or someone ...
K107e1 - When a magical spouse leaves his earthly wife, his shirt is stained with blood. Only the wife who co...
K108 - The wife dies, her husband revives her, she goes to another man, is punished. ...
K108a - A man gets a magical wife. Another woman tells her to kill or divorce her, then she will be his wife...
K109 - hero gets advice to ask supernatural characters for their service for something insignificant (puppy...
K110 - character is offered to get the treasure from the bottom of the reservoir. He doesn't understand tha...
K111 - The girl's mother consistently rejects birds and animals marrying to her daughter, accepts the propo...
K112 - A person accuses the Sun and other characters responsible for the weather, wild animals, etc., for l...
K113 - Young men (usually three brothers) find wives (usually by shooting arrows or other objects at random...
K113a - young man throws an object, shoots a bow, etc. Where the arrow hit (where the object fell), the youn...
K113b - The younger prince marries a frog. She should be visiting his parents for the first time. A thunders...
K114 - Several brothers leave home immediately after or shortly before their mother gives birth to a baby g...
K115 - When the character hides in the shelter, the spider immediately weaves a web at the entrance. Enemie...
K116 - The young man is going on a journey. His father or mother teaches him to choose a companion: not to ...
K116a - The king takes or is about to pick up the poor man's wife. She finds an excuse to convince the king ...
K116b - To take possession of a girl, someone arranges her father to let her down in a chest (barrel) into t...
K116c - To get a girl, a minister of religion persuades her father to put her into the box (barrel) and thro...
K117 - A woman will marry someone who makes her laugh; a man promises a reward to whoever makes his daughte...
K117a - A girl who is constantly silent is promised to someone who can get her to talk; or her husband can h...
K117b - The hero makes different people (and animals) stick to each other (or to objects). ...
K117c - When a character plays the pipe (violin, horn, etc.), humans and animals start to dance against thei...
K117d - A princess between two suitors must blindly choose who she likes best. A low-born groom adjusts so t...
K118 - When leaving, the character allows another to dispose of the house, but not to look into a specific ...
K118a - Seeing a portrait of a beauty, a man seeks to meet her. ...
K119 - The animal promises to make the poor man rich (usually to marry a rich bride) and, by deception, ful...
K119a - An animal saves a man or helps him but the ungrateful man humiliates the animal, kills or tries to k...
K119b - After deceiving wild animals, the fox brings them to the king under the guise of a gift from its wea...
K119c - father of the bride, who was tricked by a zoomorphic assistant to marry a poor young man (motif K119...
K119d - A cat or cat helps a poor young man marry a princess. ...
K119e - A poor young man who was benefited from an assistant animal, imagining him as a rich man in the eyes...
K120 - girl's father (rarely: stepfather) is going to marry her (as only she meets the requirements that th...
K120a - A man is going to marry his sister (it often turns out that only she meets the requirements that the...
K120a1 - To get rid of an unwanted fiancé (her own father, brother, monster), a girl requires him to get her...
K120a2 - Family members want to marry their daughter to someone they don't want to marry (they usually want t...
K120a3 - The character gets a nut containing valuables (beautiful clothes, jewelry, helper animals, etc.), or...
K120a4 - The character must fill the vessel with tears (pour them on the floor). ...
K120a5 - To get a woman, a man lures her to a ship (into a boat, to a flying machine, etc.) and takes her awa...
K121 - At the crossroads, it is indicated that one road is safe, the other is neutral, and the third is dea...
K122 - Having penetrated a powerful woman from another world, the hero returns to his own. The false hero t...
K123 - A boy, a young man, less often a girl intentionally or accidentally offends an elderly woman. She sa...
K123a - A boy or boy accidentally, and more often out of mischief, breaks or turns the vessel of a woman or ...
K123b - A boy or boy spoils an elderly woman's spinning wheel or yarn. This episode is the basis for the res...
K124 - The animal killed by the hunter runs away. The animal itself or someone else explains that this is n...
K125 - The pursuer asks various items where the hero hid or ran. Everyone is silent, one of the items gives...
K126 - A predatory beast or demon eats the hero's horse, but for this he is forced or voluntary to help him...
K127 - The girl has many brothers, they are turned into birds or animals (rarely: plants; killed by witchcr...
K127a - The heroine must remain silent for a long time and therefore cannot answer the charges. They want to...
K127b - A group of brothers is turned into bulls (oxen) and then disgraced. ...
K128 - The character tells the hero to herd animals (or birds) and promises to execute (deprive the reward)...
K128a - The princess will marry the one who brings her the best apples (figs, fish, etc.) or who brings enou...
K128b - The ruler will give her daughter to someone who can herd (collect, train) hares (squirrels, sheep, p...
K129 - Because of the female antagonist, a girl faints and is taken for dead but her body is not decomposed...
K129a - A young woman (lying in a tomb) comes to life and then looks dead again, but is finally disgraced. ...
K130 - A woman asks who is the most beautiful and gets the answer that she is. Once she is told that the ot...
K130a - Several young men (brothers) live far from people. A girl comes to them, or she is born in their hom...
K131 - Some characters argue for the possession of magic items, but the hero gets the items. Usually he off...
K131a - Several animals (often a lion, falcon, ant) argue (usually over prey or habitat). The hero resolves ...
K131b - After receiving and then losing a magic item, the hero returns it with a new one (a baton, a box wit...
K131c - The woman offers her kidnappers to shoot a bow - she will marry the winner. While they figure out wh...
K131d - The boots (shoes, sandals) which allow the person wearing them to move with extraordinary speed are ...
K132 - A small character (most often a rooster) comes to a powerful opponent. Thanks to creatures and objec...
K132a - The husband (rarely: wife) sends a rooster to work and he brings money. A wife (husband) sends a chi...
K133 - A person notices that his horse (donkey) looks tired and learns that an animal or demonic creature i...
K134 - Treasures are thrown at the guest to accuse him of stealing. ...
K135 - Accidentally defeating powerful opponents, a physically weak and timid person is honored. ...
K136 - young man is the owner and leader of a herd of cattle, and with his herd of cows or buffaloes is cal...
K136a - Seeing the hair of a girl or boy covered with water, the character decides to marry the one (marry t...
K136b - The character finds gems or unusual flowers (usually in the river) and finds out where they come fro...
K136c - When leaving, the demon temporarily kills or puts the girl to sleep, and when he returns, he revives...
K136d - From a cow (buffalo), the young man receives two flutes (flutes, horns), playing on which has differ...
K137 - brother is killed, the sister dressed as a young man, gets women who can revive the dead, puts her b...
K137a - A young man is killed. His sister puts on his clothes and pretending she is a man gets a wife for hi...
K138 - A person gains the ability to revive the dead by incarnating in his body. As long as he stays in it,...
K139 - servant is so amazed at the girl's beauty that he lets the meat or bread intended for the master bur...
K140 - Traveling with his sister or brother, the young man regularly kills saviors and helpers, exposing hi...
K141 - Supernatural women are hurting people. The hero tames them and usually marries them. ...
K142 - After killing several, the person asks the gravedigger to bury the dead man and each time says that ...
K143 - The protagonist of the story is a poultry farmer or a bird hunter, or the son of a birdsman (hunter)...
K144 - When the animal, object, or person that should have caused the character's death has already died or...
K145 - A person is predicted to be torn to pieces by a wolf or die during a wedding. The prediction turns o...
K145a - A person is predicted to die from a predatory beast. The image of the beast comes to life and kills ...
K145b - When a girl and a man remain alone (usually during their wedding night), the girl turns into a preda...
K146 - The hero is sent to get a remedy that can cure the patient or revive the deceased. On the way back, ...
K147 - The enemy dismembers the hero's body. The remains are tied to the horse's saddle or the horse picks ...
K148 - A mare gives birth to a foal every night or every year, and every time someone abducts it. ...
K149 - The character has a rope or reins with three knots that allow you to move faster or slower. Usually,...
K150 - A magic horse (rarely: a dog) eats (hot) coals, nails, etc. or tries to feed the horse with it. ...
K151 - The magic assistant satisfies the poor man's simple desire. The poor man or his wife is asking more ...
K152 - A person saves a trait that suffers from the proximity of a certain character or object. To reward h...
K152a - A man pushes a grumpy wife into a hole (well, failure). The evil spirit (snake, predator) who was th...
K153 - A person provides services to several (potentially dangerous) animals and another person. Grateful a...
K154 - A man finds a skull with a mysterious and dark prophecy written on it. Then it turns out what it mea...
K154a - solving a riddle, a boy or young man exposes the daughter, wife, or assistants of a powerful charact...
K155 - A person (usually a king) raises a son (daughter) in isolation. One day (usually by chance) a young ...
K155a - A person (usually a king) raises his daughter (less often a son) indoors, tells her to feed her meat...
K155b - A girl in the tower lowers her hair out of the window, which makes another character understand her....
K155c - Father regularly puts his daughter on the scales and understands that she is pregnant because she is...
K156 - The girl pretends to be a man. To determine who it really is, flowers are placed under the pillow or...
K156a - The young man suspects that the other boy is a girl in disguise. The young man's mother comes up wit...
K156b - People suspect that a young man is a disguised girl and suggest tests to identify the real sex of th...
K157 - The character lures his opponents one at a time and each, as soon as they appear, cuts off their hea...
K157a - To find the missing husband (wife, savior), the character arranges a free distribution of food or ot...
K158 - To find her missing husband (and other men who helped or harmed her), a woman displays her image and...
K159 - When two characters are fighting, the person nearby wants one of them to slip (and the other to stan...
K160 - The hero is given the task of bringing hair, feathers, scales, etc. of a dangerous character. He doe...
K160a - A woman living in the house of a supernatural character hides the person who comes to her and asks t...
K161 - A character who has imprisoned a dragon (demon, thunder) tells others not to unlock the dungeon (not...
K162 - antagonist (robber, sorcerer, witch) enters the house of a girl or young woman, hiding inside a stat...
K163 - magician tells the young man to get a magic object (often a lamp) from a remote place. The young man...
K164 - The person himself or someone else creates a situation in which he is convinced that his wife is not...
K165 - The young man has never been afraid and wants to know what it is. Robbers and evil spirits don't sca...
K166 - A group of girls form a community or detachment and acts independently of men. Cf. motive F39. ...
K167 - The boy plays pretending to be king and is wiser than the real one. ...
K167a - The queen hated her son, who is pregnant, and replaced him with the son of an ordinary man, who is r...
K167b - The boy is able to determine the sex and the color of a baby-animal in its mother’s womb...
K168 - A person is going through an eventful long period of life. Everything turns out to be an illusion, h...
K168a - A person thinks that he has something in his hands to eat (veal head, melon, bread, etc.), but these...
K168b - A person makes another believe that he has become a bear (wolf), ended up in the forest, etc. When h...
K169 - The hunter spares the stalked animal, noticing that it is a pregnant female and remembering his own ...
K170 - The character goes in search of an area where there are no ordinary creatures living everywhere (wat...
K171 - Heroes fight, but there are no fewer enemies, as someone is constantly weaving (forging) new warrior...
K172 - To a potential fiancé, a man describes his daughter as ugly and crippled. The groom agrees to the m...
K173 - A powerful and rich man loses everything, is separated from his wife and children, they are separate...
K174 - To sign their arrival, a person places, and often quietly throws a ring or other small piece of pers...
K175 - man carried the flour, the rising wind carried her away. A person complains to a powerful character ...
K176 - A man goes on a journey to find or return a bride or wife. ...
K176a - Hero is in search of his lost magic wife. One of the winds is just going to fly there because he mus...
K177 - A girl or young woman sets off to find or return her fience or her husband or she escapes from a fan...
K178 - The girl goes down to the lower world to her magical husband, and when she violates the ban, he driv...
K179 - As much (or more) gold (silver) as she weighs herself has been given or promised for the girl. ...
K180 - The ruler demands an explanation for his dream. The snake tells a person that this dream means the c...
K181 - The hero finds a suitable horse in the dungeon (in the basement, in deep mud, etc.), where he has be...
K181a - When a man puts his arm on the back of a horse, the horse gives way, falls. It is a sign of the man�...
K182 - A supernatural protector comes to the rescue when he hears an alarm, but stops doing so after the si...
K182a - Mighty hero is retired to the cave (tomb etc.) will come back to the world (to help his people) or h...
K183 - The character rips the bellies of aquatic creatures or looks down their throats to find the swallowe...
K184 - Not recognizing his son, his father fights with him and kills him. ...
K561 - A poor man brings his master a chicken (goose, etc.) as a present. The master asks him to divide the...
L1a - anthropomorphic character turns into a dangerous four-legged predator (tiger, bear, jaguar). ...
L1b - A young woman turns into a monstrous bear, killing most people except her younger sister (Ojibwa: ex...
L1b1 - A woman gets into conflict with her brothers and turns into dangerous demon...
L1c - Those who run away from the monstrous bear rise to the sky and turn into stars. ...
L1c1 - Fleeing from demonic characters, a group of male relatives of the girl ascends to heaven and stays t...
L1c2 - Fleeing from the demonic creature, the characters hide their children (younger siblings) in a disgui...
L1d - werewolf jaguar kills most people and is killed thanks to a woman who survived. ...
L1e - A monstrous bird is made from small amounts of human or animal flesh (usually from the heart) or fro...
L1f - sister, magically or turned into a monster, kills her brothers, avenging them for the death of her l...
L3 - The demon takes the form of a man and comes to his wife (less often another woman). Usually a woman ...
L3a - Left alone, a woman carelessly calls someone to help her with the housework; a demon comes and kills...
L4 - The character consistently (almost) kills girls (rarely: his nephews or his wife's younger siblings)...
L4a - demon requires the hero (heroine) to eat food that they should not eat. When the hero reports that t...
L4b - Person gets to know that the heroine has broken his or her prohibition to enter a certain room becau...
L5c - monster head chases stars, humans, or sticks to someone else's body. See motif L5. ...
L5d - A rolling head suffers from thirst. See motif L5. ...
L5e - woman's decapitated body stalks her husband and her head haunts her children. ...
L5e1 - A woman who had changed into demon pursues her own children...
L5f - The head, face or skull are a woman's husband, groom or son; it is not dangerous for her, brings wea...
L5g - remains of one of the sisters is her head. She goes after another sister or sisters, or they take he...
L5h - Two sisters or two brothers find themselves in a demon's house or in front of an obstacle. One or on...
L6 - creature requires a person to wear it all the time and does not allow himself to be thrown off. ...
L6a - inconspicuous, faint-looking character asks a person to carry him or her on his back, and then refus...
L7 - In pursuit of a person, a spirit, monster, or beast mistakenly rushes after a large double object, u...
L7a - A character who sticks to another creature and refuses to get off first sticks to the person and the...
L7b - In pursuit of a person, a spirit, monster, or beast mistakenly rushes after a calebasa launched alon...
L9 - character's body parts look like cutting or piercing guns. ...
L9a - character's leg is maimed (intentionally or accidentally) or initially pointed. He uses sharpened bo...
L9b - character's sharp elbows or (rarely) knees are like knives or awls. ...
L9c - The character kills others with a sharp protrusion on his chest. ...
L9d - The character has sharp nails or knife hands that he uses to kill people. ...
L9e - In an anthropomorphic character, the nose is like a copper or iron beak. ...
L9f - A person's nose or teeth made of gold or silver are a sign of his demonic nature. ...
L9g - The beard or hair of a man are of unusual color. This is a sign of his demonic nature...
L10 - The character has a sharp (biting) tail or protrusion on the back. See Motive L9, cf. L9C Motive. ...
L10a - A demonic character approaches a man's fire. A person first leaves a block instead of himself, hides...
L11 - Everyday items look like fish, invertebrates, reptiles, dangerous predators, or items turn into thes...
L12 - Vultures take to the sky a creature that has lost some of its members or has only one head left. ...
L13 - People bring home and raise a dangerous creature (or it grows by itself in a man-made water tank). W...
L14 - People bring a small creature (usually a worm or reptile) into their homes and raise them, or they s...
L15a - The character's vulnerable spot is on the surface of the body, but not in vital internal organs. ...
L15a1 - When a baby is hardened to make his body invulnerable, a small area remains unhardened. A mature her...
L15a2 - The body of a person is made invulnerable (in a furnace, etc.) besides a particular spot...
L15b - A character can only be killed by a specific plant that is not usually used to make weapons. ...
L15b1 - In a battle between positive and negative creators, a positive person chooses a deer horn as a weapo...
L15c - A dangerous character asks the hero what he can kill, what he is afraid of. The hero lies, the named...
L15c1 - A dangerous character innocently tells us what exactly he is afraid of or what his life is about, th...
L15d - Life of a person or creature is preserved outside of his (her, its) body. Person or creature dies af...
L15d1 - When a character tries to find out where his soul is (death), he first gives the wrong answer, and t...
L15e - hero's life is in an object, usually in his weapon. The enemy steals or throws away the item, the he...
L15e1 - An aged and/or feeling his death is approaching, instructs his son, warrior, or people under control...
L15e2 - A powerful character instructs his son, warrior, or people under control to throw his blade (sword o...
L15f - A young woman or boy dies as soon as her or her jewelry (rarely an organ) is stolen and comes back t...
L15g - A person's life is connected with an object that can be burned. As soon as an object is burned, a pe...
L15g1 - Person knows the secret on which depends life of his or her husband, son or wife. After a quarrel, h...
L15h - An object that contains the life (soul) of a person is inside two or more creatures or other objects...
L15i - A man dies or loses strength if his hair is cut or the hair on his head is pulled out. ...
L16b - creature's eyes or mouths are located on the joints (knees, etc.). ...
L17 - mouth and eyes of an anthropomorphic creature are on the chest, no head. ...
L17a - A character or creature has an eye or second pair of eyes on the back or back. Cf. motive L17b, “m...
L17a1 - Characters with varying numbers of eyes remain watching the hero or heroine. He or she puts his eyes...
L17a2 - Instead of a beautiful woman, a man takes a devil with an odd number of eyes. ...
L17b - The character or creature has a second person or second mouth on the back of his head. ...
L18 - A bird with two or more heads in descriptions or images. ...
L19a - Beings (any besides birds) with even but not more than ten number of heads are described in tales or...
L19b - Creatures (any other than ornithomorphic ones) with more than 10 heads or an odd (but more than one)...
L19b1 - seven-headed reptile is described or depicted (except when snakes with the largest number of heads a...
L19b2 - A creature with 12 heads is mentioned either individually or by closing a row of creatures with fewe...
L19b3 - A monster with twelve heads is mentioned either alone or at the end of the row of creatures with eve...
L20 - Two characters hunt or fish. One turns out to be or becomes an ogre, which is discovered when he/she...
L20a - A man climbs a tree, pulls chicks (usually a parrot) out of the nest and throws them to the woman. S...
L21 - cannibal or demon under a tree intends to capture a person who climbs a tree; he throws prey or an o...
L22 - Breaking a ban, seeing an unusual object or a strange character, people fall asleep deeply; at night...
L22a - Breaking a ban, seeing an unusual object or a strange character, people fall asleep deeply and wake ...
L23 - Trying to free himself, the captured character consistently turns into various substances, materials...
L23a - Trying to free himself, the captured character consistently changes his appearance, in particular tu...
L23b - Trying to free himself, the captured character consistently changes his appearance. The last transfo...
L23c - Being seized, person changes his or her guise in succession, the last transformations is into a smal...
L23d - Being seized by a person, a female person turns into different materials, elements or animals (Urari...
L23e - Being seized by a person, a male person turns into different materials, elements or animals...
L24 - Demons (or one of them) attack people and return to their den (usually a cave or tree hollow). Peopl...
L25 - By killing demons, people save the life of a child, girl or woman. When she or he stays around, she ...
L26 - During the (first) initiation, supernatural beings teach boys rituals and kill them for violating ru...
L26a - During the (first) initiation, men kill supernatural characters (reproducing their appearance and/or...
L27 - Sisters or girlfriends meet a demon. One or both don't understand the danger. One is eaten or maimed...
L27a - Sisters, or siblings, find themselves in the same house as an antagonist whose cannibalism they only...
L28 - A person who eats unusual or forbidden meat or fish food, or touches something forbidden, turns into...
L28a - The character eats the meat of a snake (dragon, unusual fish); this results in a flood, a river or l...
L29 - People fish where they should not be, usually in a small forest pond isolated from running water; th...
L30 - A person who violates the food ban is terribly thirsty and drinks huge amounts of water. See motif L...
L31 - People are forced against their will to follow an object, person or animal (usually stick to it) tha...
L31a - An object comes down from the sky. Children playing climb into it or stick to it, it takes them to h...
L31b - people find a reptile on land, they touch it or sit on it, stick it and crawl into the water with it...
L32 - The stone swallows, bites, hits or transforms people. ...
L33 - The stone rolls after the character, trying to crush him. ...
L33a - trickster picks up an object lying on or near a rock or other seemingly inanimate object he has give...
L33b - character invites someone who at first glance is unable to move (stump, boulder, fire) to race. The ...
L33c - trickster and the boulder agree to race down the slope. The boulder is rolling faster and crushing t...
L33d - A rolling monster stone kills people. The hero destroys it. See motif L33. ...
L33e - The trickster demands back or picks up a cape belonging to a skateau or other character (he usually ...
L33f - A rock, a boulder chases the character. He calls for help, splits the rock to pieces with his nightj...
L33g - A tree, a creature on a tree, a stone kills (seriously injures) anyone who calls it a certain way, c...
L34 - A character kills or maims an enemy by setting fire to his clothes, mask, hat, hair, or object behin...
L35 - shaman or spirit comes at night and puts his hand inside the hut to steal food or disturb the woman....
L36 - The moment a husband climbs a tree or descends from a tree, the wife (or her brother) kills, maims h...
L37a - Description not found...
L37a1 - A person goes to find out the reason for his failures. Others also share their questions with him. G...
L37a2 - A person comes to ask God (fate, sun, etc.) questions asked him to ask by those he met along the way...
L37b - By accidentally overhearing animals or spirits talking, a person learns how to help themselves and o...
L37b1 - To cure a sick person or save the house from other misfortunes, it is necessary to kill (get, expel)...
L37b2 - From a conversation between snakes or crows, a person learns about the cause of another's illness: a...
L37b3 - Overhearing conversation of two snakes or raven, person gets to know the cause of a sickness of anot...
L37b4 - Overhearing conversation of animals or ghosts, person gets to know that the meat (brain, blood) of a...
L37c - A person meets the incarnations of Doli (and Nedoli) - his own or someone else's. He manages to infl...
L37c1 - Everyone's happiness (Unhappiness, Need, etc.) are special characters with whom a person comes into ...
L38 - The demon sets a trap, people fall into it. Cf. motive K64A. ...
L38a - The character sticks to an object, usually by successively sticking to it by individual members of h...
L39 - By force or deception, the character forces another to come down from the tree and brings or leads t...
L39a - A supernatural character comes out of the underworld and attacks a person who climbs a tree. See mot...
L39b - A tree grows from a doughnut (scone etc.) and usually brings doughnuts instead of fruits...
L39c - A boy (less often a girl) climbs a fruit tree that has just grown (usually from an abandoned bone). ...
L39d - A boy climbs a tree for fruit. The demonic character asks you to share with him, but not to throw th...
L40 - A character finds (rarely: he never finds) another on a tree or rock, noticing his reflection or sha...
L40a - An ugly woman sees the reflection of a young man sitting on a tree in the water and thinks that she ...
L40b - To get the character closer, they perform absurd actions in front of his eyes. The character does no...
L40c - Based on the ambiguity of the statement, the person who bought a cheap object claims rights to a muc...
L41 - After catching a person, the ogre carries his prey home, but the caught person runs away along the w...
L41a - The character runs away from the person who caught him, leaving a stone (or block, sand) instead. Se...
L41a1 - When demon tries to empty his bag, stones and not the hero fall out and break the cauldron...
L41b - basket in which the cannibal puts people is smeared or filled with resin. See L41, L42 motives. ...
L41c - cannibal grabs the kids when they ride down the hill. ...
L42 - An ogre or ogress catches a person and brings him to his or her home where he or she plans to cook a...
L42a - cannibal steals fresh corpses from graves. ...
L42b - The child (less often the wife) of the antagonist believes the words of the hero he caught and broug...
L42b1 - character kidnapped by the demon advises him to place pots, pans and other kitchen items on top of e...
L42c - The character hides from the stronger one inside the house and then outside, the strong cannot grab ...
L42d - A man runs away from the ogre on the ice, the cannibal chases him, licks the blood that has spilled ...
L42e - demon catches the hero, brings him home, the hero runs away along the way. The demon returns, grabs ...
L42f - Intended to be eaten, the character runs away unnoticed. The landlord thinks that his wife ate it al...
L42g - stepmother, and more often the father (usually at the insistence of the new wife) leaves the childre...
L42g1 - The father (stepmother) takes the children into the forest, leaves unnoticed. To make the children t...
L42g2 - A person leaves a trail, throwing seeds, pebbles, etc. or leaving drops of blood. Birds destroy the ...
L42g3 - In the forest or in the sky, the character sees a house that is fully or partially made of edible ma...
L42h - cannibal catches the hero, invites other cannibals to a feast. The hero runs away, and the cannibals...
L42i - Creatures from another world carry a little boy away. His sister picks him up and safely leaves the ...
L42i1 - The boy is swimming in a boat. The witch lures him out and takes him away. The boy is saved. ...
L42j - cannibal catches children (usually mice), puts them in a bag, tells the tree (pole, crossbar in the ...
L42k - The demonic character regurgitates an axe (Teslo) to cut down a tree. ...
L43 - The hero escapes from the demon's trap or continues to be unharmed in the shelter from where the dem...
L44 - demon or powerful beast requires a person or a weak animal to show individual parts of his body. It ...
L44a - demon demands that the person hiding in the shelter give him parts of his body. A person gives the d...
L44b - blind and the deaf (lame) began to live together, helping each other. After being fatally frightened...
L45 - A strong character drives the weak one into a trap and leaves someone to guard the loot. The watchma...
L46 - The character walks, goes up or down, or sees the world upside down. ...
L47 - The hero's opponent approaches him upside down or backwards, giving the hero the opportunity to kill...
L48 - A hero (usually somewhere on a hill - on a tree, rock, on the edge of an abyss or a well) kills and/...
L49 - Individual parts or pieces of the character's body are successively dropped down. (In American versi...
L50 - The character kills travelers passing by him. He usually does not attack them unexpectedly, but dist...
L51 - cannibal, a spirit, a predatory beast regularly throws its prey down, where they are devoured by aqu...
L52 - A person escapes from a pursuer by climbing a tree and then flying away from it by himself or on the...
L53 - A terrible creature has been killed or neutralized by hot stones, pieces of iron, etc. thrown into i...
L54 - To overcome a disaster, hot stones or ash are thrown into the water. ...
L55 - To neutralize a dangerous enemy, caustic or boiling liquid is poured into one of the holes in his bo...
L56 - monster or a huge animal dies from a fire in its womb. See K8A motif. ...
L57 - The character loses his inner organ, part of his body, they are carried away by others; he approache...
L57a - Hostile creatures take possession of a part of the character's body, he dies or gets sick. The other...
L57b - A person tears off, cuts off a part of the body of a predatory beast or demonic creature, and uses i...
L58 - A person denies food to his immediate family or spouse; as punishment, he or his food changes its na...
L59 - A woman eats the best food alone or eats fruits until they are ripe; as punishment, she metamorphose...
L59a - People who abuse a hero or his son are dragged into the sea, turning into a marine animal or part of...
L60 - Several sisters are picking up a baby. In their absence, he becomes an adult man, and when they appr...
L61 - The character eats himself, gutts, or kills himself to be eaten. ...
L62 - stone man kills people but then kills himself. ...
L63 - The character eats food with his bosom or anus. See F9A motif. ...
L64 - A character takes off, takes out a part of his body (head, scalp, lungs), picks it up, puts it back....
L65 - baby or small child turns out to be a demon, killing people. ...
L65a - A daughter is born, or people find a girl; she is a monster or turns into a monster, devours everyon...
L65a1 - A demonic person devours in succession parts of the hero’s horse, each time coming back to the her...
L65a2 - Person shoots off (injures) a finger of a demonic person and then sees that his baby-sister’s fing...
L65b - A demonic woman, less often her lover or other monster, is ready to kill or kill a hero. Dogs (or an...
L65b1 - A person exchanges sheep (goats) for dogs. The exchange looks unequal, but dogs help him succeed. ...
L65b2 - hero's dogs have names that indicate their strength and dexterity (Wind, Lomayiron, etc.). ...
L65b3 - character who climbs a tree manages to escape from a demon (usually he tries to knock down a tree). ...
L65b4 - A demonic character pulls out a tooth to use it as a weapon or tool (often an ax). ...
L65b5 - Despite obstacles, dogs of the hero or other animals who are his helpers come to the princess at the...
L65c - The eldest of three or more sisters turns out to be cannibal, devouring younger sisters and others. ...
L65d - When the older sister becomes a cannibal, the youngest is (temporarily) saved. Cf. motives L1B, L65C...
L66 - To help the hero, a small animal digs an underground passage under the lying monster, and the hero s...
L67 - After digging an underground passage to a lying monstrous ungulate, a small animal gnaws hair from w...
L68 - A person experiences a monstrous metamorphosis, being left (usually in a deserted place at night) al...
L69 - A person is attacked by a monster; a puma, jaguar, or dog fights, kills or chases a monster; the per...
L70 - The character is killed or maimed by an object dropped from above that he expects to fall, but he ha...
L71 - The character kills an animal; the trickster tries to pick up the meat; the character raises the mea...
L72 - Fleeing, the character throws small objects behind him that turn into powerful obstacles in the way ...
L72a - Fleeing, the character throws a comb (brush) behind him, which turns into an obstacle on (almost alw...
L72b - Fleeing, the character throws small objects behind him, turning into powerful obstacles in the path ...
L72c - Fleeing, the character throws a mirror behind him, which turns into an obstacle for the pursuer (ice...
L72d - Fleeing, the character throws scissors behind him, which turn into an obstacle in the path of the pu...
L72e - To overcome the obstacles created by the fleeing hero, the pursuer is forced to return home for the ...
L72e1 - To destroy the obstacles created by the hero, the pursuer uses tools. Before continuing his chase, h...
L72f - Fleeing, the character throws giblets or the contents of the animal's stomach behind him, which beco...
L72g - Fleeing, the character throws salt behind him, which turns into an obstacle in the path of the pursu...
L72h - Fleeing, the character throws behind him a firefighting tool (flint, chair, match, tinder), which tu...
L72i - Fleeing, the character throws soap behind him, which turns into an obstacle for the pursuer (slipper...
L72j - Fleeing, the character throws an awl or needle behind him, which turns into many awls or needles. ...
L72k - Fleeing, the character throws a bottle of oil behind him. When it spills out, it turns into a lake o...
L73 - Trying to drink the river, lake, sea, the antagonist bursts. ...
L73a - The fugitives make it so that darkness spreads behind them, preventing the pursuer (and light is pou...
L73b - The runner draws a line along the ground, resulting in an obstacle to the pursuer's path. ...
L73c - Waving a piece of cloth (throwing it on the ground, putting on water, etc.) person creates obstacles...
L74 - A bear or other powerful character tears off and carries another's hand. The third character steals ...
L74a - The enemy takes the hero away or tears off and carries away a part of his body, and then hangs his v...
L75 - One of the two brothers is the epitome of evil; at birth, he cuts his mother's body, killing her. ...
L76 - When a cannibal attacks a man, she devours or rips off his testicles. ...
L77 - The character devours people because he sees delicacy instead of them. ...
L78 - In the images, the character has the characteristics of a jaguar and a toad; the toad/frog becomes a...
L79 - The girl marries a powerful, benevolent character; his first wife is a monster; he kills her or is h...
L80 - A demonic creature or animal is killed, but it comes to life or may come to life if even a small par...
L81 - A person who goes looking for fire finds it in the demon. A demon stalks a person, harms him, kills ...
L81a - The girl offended the cat (rarely: a dog, a rooster) and she, in revenge, adjusts so that the girl s...
L81a1 - Seeing a red bead (pebble) falling into the hearth, the character thinks that it is a coal and does ...
L81a2 - While men are not at home, a demonic character comes to a girl or young woman to drink her blood. Me...
L81a3 - The girl sees the demon in a frightening and disgusting form. The next time he asks what she said ab...
L81b - The hero's rivals throw him off, cutting off his legs (usually leaving his sword in front of his ten...
L81c - A legless person lives with a blind and armless person (or one of two). Together they grab a demonic...
L81d - After defeating the demon, two crippled people with different bodily disabilities quarrel and fight,...
L82 - A person intentionally or accidentally burns his leg in the fire or burns himself entirely; he becom...
L83 - A character with only one head left (L5 motif) or who burns his leg (L82 motif) turns into lightning...
L84 - The character tries to cut down a tree with an ax made of obviously unusable material. ...
L85 - The character has only half of the body (vertically). See also L85C, Half Chicken. ...
L85a - The character is born as half a person or becomes half a person as a result of an accident. He or sh...
L85b - A pregnant woman scolds the Sun, Rain, or another powerful character. Because of this, a child is bo...
L85b1 - Having risen to heaven (meeting God, returning from heaven to earth), a bodily flawed young man (usu...
L85c - A character with half a body is a chicken, a chicken. Sometimes it's just a name, and the character'...
L85d - The hero meets a giant and a strongman (usually a ploughman) with one hand, one leg, one eye. He was...
L85e - The character has only one leg (and one arm), which does not prevent him from moving around. Unlike ...
L86 - Having become a demon, a woman stalks her children. See J35 motif. ...
L87 - The character accidentally tastes blood, and then devours himself and/or others. ...
L88 - A man kills a demon, and when he touches his remains over time, he comes to life. ...
L89 - One person, wanting to harm another, quietly lets him eat a certain food or use a certain item. As a...
L90 - One lip (one fang, horn, etc.) of the creature reaches the sky, the other drags across the ground. ...
L90a - A house is described that stands on the feet or one leg of a bird or small animal and/or rotates (ca...
L90b - One tooth (tusk) of a supernatural creature touches the sky, and the other touches the ground or rea...
L90c - An animal (deer, ram, goat, bull, cow or wolverine) has the horns, one of which touches the ground, ...
L90d - A hero attaches the upper lip (jaw) of a monster to the sky, and the lower one to the ground...
L91 - Two or four young men go camping or coming back. Their path is blocked by a long creature that canno...
L92 - demon, an ogre, cuts down a tree or rock on top of which the hero hides. The animal offers to cut th...
L93 - demon, an ogre, cuts down a tree or rock on top of which the hero hides. While he is resting, the an...
L93a - A fox, jackal or coyote, using cunning, helps a hero, heroine or people in general, saves them. ...
L93b - hare or rabbit, using cunning, helps a hero or heroine, saves them. ...
L93c - monkey helps the hero or heroine, saves them. ...
L94 - demon or animal helps a person or agrees to let him go, but for this he promises to give him a daugh...
L94a - When a person leans towards the water, the demon grabs his beard and lets him go for promising to fu...
L94b - A person promises to give the supernatural character the first person to meet (either what he has no...
L94b1 - A person receives a box (bag, horn, etc.) as a gift, which he must open only at home. Driven by curi...
L94c - Asking the deity to destroy an enemy, a person promises that if his (her) plea will be granted he (s...
L94d - The demonic character accuses a person of stepping on the tail (tore off the tail) of a fairy tale. ...
L94e - Supernatural being who helps the hero (heroine) if the latter fulfills certain demands is the white ...
L95 - A person (usually a child or teenager) returns to his original place for a forgotten object (often a...
L95a - A person sees lungs or liver lying on the ground or floating in water. As soon as he touches them, a...
L95b - Having promised to give the demon the child, the mother or father does not try to save him, but they...
L96 - The character has the ability to transform into animals or objects. Being sold in this form, he achi...
L96a - person sighs, followed by a character named <i>Oh</i>, <i>Uf, Awai</i>, etc....
L96b - A person comes to an ascetic, demon, etc. He is going to kill him by pushing him into a boiling pot ...
L96c - A youth studies magic but answers his master that he has learned nothing. Thank to this, the master ...
L97 - Seeing a character who is deprived of the ability to move (nailed to the ground, the bottom of his b...
L98 - demon who takes children away, threatens heroes, humans, etc., is an owl; there is an owl race that ...
L99 - After grabbing the character, the ogre tells him to bring firewood himself or a spit to fry it. The ...
L100 - A young man and a girl running away from their pursuers take the form of different but associatively...
L100a - fugitive turns into a small object (stick, stone) or hides in a similar object. The stalker angrily ...
L100b - After running away from his pursuers, the young man breaks up with the girl to return for her soon, ...
L100b1 - The young man forgets his magic bride and meets another woman. At the last moment a bird tells the s...
L100c - When a man comes to a lonely beauty, she asks him to do an insignificant assignment (close the door,...
L100d - A man or more men, one of whom is usually a cleric, seek the love of a beautiful woman. Having agree...
L100d1 - A person with (spiritual) power comes to a woman in the evening. When there is a knock on the door, ...
L100e - Before entering, the guest notices the hostess and her lover in the house. When a husband arrives, t...
L100f - In the absence of the host, the guest is told that the host is going to kill or to maim him. The gue...
L100f1 - The employee (the owner's young son) adjusts so that the dishes prepared by the hostess for the love...
L100g - servant serves the master a fried bird, one of which has already been eaten. He tells you to look at...
L101 - Running away from the pursuer, a person consistently undresses and throws garments behind him. The s...
L102 - girl or woman (for various reasons, jokingly or seriously) calls an animal or animal remains a husba...
L102a - The sea-gull abducts a girl or a woman but she gets to return to the people...
L103 - The runner throws or creates objects behind him that the pursuer, wasting time, collects, eats, or d...
L103a - girl, a young woman, runs away from a demonic character; she manages to run home, but her relatives ...
L103b - A girl or boy falls into a demonic creature. A captive (prisoner) rides a pet (usually a calf, a bul...
L103b1 - The Hero (heroine) flights from a demon riding a domestic animal (often a calf or a bull). When the ...
L103c - demon, usually an old cannibal, cannot enter the house as long as he is guarded by a dog or cat. The...
L104 - fleeing character consistently takes the form of various creatures or objects; the pursuer also chan...
L105 - An animal, fish, or anthropomorphic character injured by the hero runs away or swims away - usually ...
L106 - A person takes an item from another and loses it; the owner demands that the item be returned; the h...
L106a - antagonist makes formally justified, but essentially unfair demands on the hero. The hero performs t...
L106b - A girl, girl, or (rarely) boy loses a household item, usually carried away by water or wind. In sear...
L107 - People have disproportionately large ears (rarely: lips): they cover them like a blanket, use them a...
L108 - Every time a character who has left returns, he or she sends a conditional signal to his relative (u...
L108a - A predator or cannibal swallows humans and animals. A goat (rarely a sheep) punishes him and usually...
L108b - To prevent the victim from recognizing him, a predator, an ogre makes his voice thinner with the hel...
L108b1 - To make his voice subtle, the character turns to a blacksmith. ...
L108b2 - To get a subtle voice, the character lets ants bite his tongue. ...
L108c - To prevent the victim from recognizing him and unlocking the door, the predator, the cannibal shows ...
L108d - A character who swallows his prey alive falls asleep. When his belly was ripped open, the swallowed ...
L108e - A fox has a child, usually adopted (she takes care of a lamb, foal, etc.), a wolf or bear kills him,...
L108f - character (girl, boy) is in the water, the antagonist lures him ashore, imitating the voice of his f...
L108g - The character is black and must sit in the water until he turns white. The antagonist takes him away...
L109 - pumpkin turns out to be an absorber monster and/or grows from the remains of a monster. ...
L110 - The character swallows lots of people and/or animals. In the end, his stomach is ripped open, swallo...
L110a - The character swallows a person or (usually) a lot of people and animals, the hero kills the monster...
L110b - The stomach (spleen) taken out of the body of a pet or bird turns out to be a voracious monster. ...
L110c - Elderly spouses make a child out of clay (wood, straw). The doll comes to life, consistently eats ev...
L111 - Sky dwellers or shamans catch or want to catch people on earth with a hook, net, loop, etc., drag th...
L112 - A physically disabled boy is born (tiny, one head, half a body, etc.). After a series of adventures,...
L113 - A girl who usually rejects suitors for a long time falls in love with a handsome man who turns out t...
L114 - A group of boys or girls come to the demon's locus. A younger brother or sister or a sick, unfit cha...
L114a - One (usually the youngest) of a group of boys or girls (children) enters with them into the house of...
L114b - After receiving a task or on his own initiative, the cunning person enters the character's house (us...
L114b1 - The character consistently steals various objects from the ogre's house and finally catches or kills...
L114c - Children or young men (usually brothers) change clothes (hats, jewelry, blankets, places where they ...
L115 - girl who rejected her suitors finally finds someone she likes. The groom turns out to be a werewolf:...
L116 - cannibal (old man, gypsy) grabs the girl, carries her in a sack, makes her sing. People recognize th...
L116a - While chasing a roe deer (doe, deer), the hero finds himself in the locus of a demon or wizard; a ro...
L117 - A man is going to get married. An evil spirit, animal, etc. is forced to accompany him (usually help...
L118 - One character provokes another to stick his hand or paw into a split log (between two boards, etc.) ...
L118a - To get rid of a dangerous but stupid character, a person performs some actions that the character im...
L119 - The hero and antagonist fight in the air, tearing each other's dicks off. Usually, their allies on t...
L120 - After overhearing the conversation of demonic characters who are going to turn into something edible...
L120a - The hero hides in the forge from the dragon chasing him. When the monster breaks through, wipes the ...
L120b - The hero fights the snake and calls for help, but is not heard. Then he throws a piece of his shoes ...
L121 - An animal or cannibal (cannibal) turns into a woman and marries a hunter with the sole intention of ...
L121a - The hunter has the ability to avoid danger by turning into various objects. The werewolf wife tries ...
L122 - The character is riding a rooster. ...
L122a - The character is busy sewing up cracks in the ground, just like sewing up a torn cloth. (The motive ...
L123 - In order to confuse the pursuer, the character leaves traces in all directions before running. ...
L124 - A person extracts a vein, spinal cord, intestine from the demon's body, cuts out a strip of skin, or...
L124a - belt (vein, intestine, skin strip, etc.) dissects or burns what it is applied to (a tree or a person...
L125 - When a man meets a beauty, he finds her in a position where her inhuman nature appears. After that, ...
L125a - The woman with whom a man met is a creature of an inhuman nature. This becomes clear after at night,...
L125b - After following his wife (husband), the husband (wife) discovers that at night she or he goes to dev...
L126 - An anthropomorphic character cooks and eats a bird, but it gives a voice from its belly and gets out...
L127 - Once in another world, the character sees dancing body parts, etc. strange creatures. He shouldn't b...
L128 - When a demonic character or predator reveals who he is, a hero or herbivore responds with a name tha...
L129 - character is asked why his body parts, organs, tools are what they are. He answers (or the questione...
L129a - A wolf or demon is asked why his body parts and organs are what they are. He explains consistently. ...
L130 - Two or more characters have only one eye for everyone. ...
L131 - To get rid of a demonic woman or to make a bird or ladybug fly away, they are told that the locus wh...
L131a - To get rid of the demonic woman, she is told that the locus, where her house and/or children are, is...
L131b - To make a bird or ladybug fly away, they are told that the locus, where their home and/or children a...
L132 - When one of the members of a small (family) group, left alone, secretly eats food, this leads to a s...
L133 - The character keeps his limbs separately, connecting them to the body if necessary. ...
L134 - The hero's opponent (usually a demonic woman) is inside the sea wave (third, ninth) or embodies a wa...
L135 - Person leaves his (rare: her) home believing that his way back will take as much time as the way to ...
M1a - Cayman transports one of the brothers or a group of brothers, who then turn into the Pleiades. He us...
M1b - Cayman transports the monkey across the river; it manages to jump ashore, runs away from the caiman....
M2 - The hero descends from a tree or cliff on the back of an animal or on the backs of animals. ...
M3 - The character crosses a water or air barrier on the backs of chained animals, birds, or fish. ...
M3a - The character invites aquatic creatures to count them, and to do this, form a chain; crosses it to t...
M3b - Trying to grab a hare, another animal tears off (bites) its tail. It's been short ever since. ...
M4 - When crossing a pond or descending from a tree, the character (usually despite a warning) steps at a...
M5 - Once in a situation where his life depends on the will of a demon or animal, the hero feels like ins...
M5a - Small animal characters sail in the boat, it sinks, everyone escapes as best they can. ...
M5b - rat drowns, has difficulty getting to the shore (usually an aquatic animal takes it), and mocks othe...
M5c - The octopus or star-fish was covered with hair but the rat had eaten it up...
M5d - The squirrel and the creeping fish are smart and get medicines for each other...
M6 - A young man or girl spends night in the forest. The forest partridge (Tinamus sp.) provides him or h...
M7 - The character goes to the lower world, to the sky, to the country on the horizon, etc. and waits for...
M7a - Birds or animals take the character into their boat, but take on a zoomorphic appearance and leave t...
M7a1 - Person gets to a place from which he is unable to come out. Several (more than two) different celest...
M7b - zoomorphic character (usually a fox) finds himself in a place he can't get out of, and consistently ...
M7c - zoomorphic character is waiting to be transported across the water. Animals or fish consistently off...
M8 - Some characters (not humans) are struggling to break a strong barrier that prevents access to the de...
M8a - Animals, and more often birds, find it difficult to break through a rock from the outside or inside,...
M8b - Animals, and often birds, struggle to break through the rock to get water or honey hidden inside it....
M8c - Birds pierce through a layer of clay, wax, resin, etc., that covers the character's eyes or anus. ...
M8d - Birds break through the hard cover on the character's body to reach his entrails. ...
M9 - The character puts his head or hand in a hollow or (rarely) another hole), gets stuck in it, or fall...
M9a - A character who eagerly sucks honey from a hollow and/or gets stuck in a hollow turns into a tree fr...
M10 - girl or woman gets stuck in a hollow, extracting honey, or otherwise eagerly sucks honey and dies or...
M11 - A character gives others food extracted from his or someone else's body, or contaminated with body s...
M11a - The character gives others fish extracted from his body. ...
M11b - A woman feeds a man with benign meat or fat that she cuts off from her own flesh or removes from her...
M11c - Without harm to himself, the male character cuts off, pierces, roasts, holds a part of his body (or ...
M12 - Unable, unwilling or unable to catch game (fish), a hunter (fisherman) cuts flesh from his body, pul...
M13 - A person makes a request to the deity, and he fulfills it according to the letter, not the meaning. ...
M13a - Deity and man meet for the former to comply with the second's request. As a result, a person turns i...
M14a - Taking revenge on his wife or her relatives for the (alleged) offense, the husband roasts his wife a...
M15 - A man ties a girl or young woman to the top of a tree or puts her on the top of her head like a stak...
M16 - patient's wife or relatives (often mother) do not care about him. He is recovering, and those who tr...
M16a - A character (usually a loon) restores a person's eyesight and/or health by diving with him into the ...
M17 - A wife, mother or grandmother points the arrow of a blind man or boy at the game, lies as if he miss...
M17a - (Grand-)mother of a blind man or boy secretly eats meat or fish (usually acquired by her son or gran...
M17b - Wife of a blind man helps him to shoot a game but lies that he missed and secretly eats meat alone...
M18 - The hero turns into an object of fishing or hunting, exposing himself as a target for enemies. Arrow...
M18a - The character turns into an object of fishing or hunting, exposing himself as a target for enemies. ...
M18b - The character turns into a fishing object to carry the hook he is being caught on or the jail they a...
M19 - The character ties another (usually a child) to the end of the forest, using him as bait or forcing ...
M20 - The character removes fish or bait from the hooks; he is caught, his beak or jaw is damaged. Usually...
M21 - The character runs away from the pursuer. The person or animal that a person asks for help hides it....
M21a - The character is being chased by an enemy. The animal hides the fugitive in its mouth or on its body...
M21b - The character consistently damages others in such a way that each deceived person is used as a weapo...
M22 - long-necked bird living near the water (crane, heron, bittern, swan) helps the fugitive escape from ...
M22a - In a strange home, in a foreign country, where a hero, crane or heron enters is a watchman who must ...
M23 - The character pretends to be afraid of only one method of killing that isn't really dangerous for hi...
M23a - turtle says that before it can be eaten, it must be properly soaked in water, and once in the water,...
M24 - turtle goes to war and/or is captured. See M23 motif. Cf. motif K77 “Verlioka”. ...
M24a - turtle man goes to war, kills people (usually a woman). He gets caught or killed. In his animal form...
M25 - To take part in a festival in heaven or visit a deity, a flightless character manages to climb high ...
M26 - The character dives under waterfowl and ties a rope to their legs to catch them. Birds soar into the...
M26a - The character catches birds by feeding them bait tied to a rope, which they swallow one by one, or b...
M27 - The tree or staircase that people took to heaven collapses; on the way back, people fall down. Usual...
M28 - When able to take off, the character takes off but falls or stays in a remote place from where he ca...
M29a - See the motives in square brackets. ...
M29a1 - In three or more different episodes related to deception, absurd, obscene or anti-social behavior th...
M29b - Fox (a), Jackal, Coyote (or Wolf when, apparently, we mean a steppenwolf, i.e. the same coyote). See...
M29b1 - As a result of his stupidity or antisocial behavior, the wolf dies or suffers damage. See the motive...
M29b2 - As a result of its stupidity or antisocial behavior, the bear dies or suffers damage. See the motive...
M29b3 - As a result of its stupidity or antisocial behavior, the fox (jackal) dies or suffers damage. See th...
M29c - See the motives in square brackets. ...
M29d - See the motives in square brackets. ...
M29f - As a result of its stupidity or antisocial behavior, the wolverine dies or suffers damage. See the m...
M29g - See the motives in square brackets. They include traditions in which the hare/rabbit appears only as...
M29g1 - In episodes involving deception, ridiculous, obscene, or antisocial behavior, the hare or rabbit is ...
M29g2 - Cancer (crab) defeats or deceives strong opponents by cunning. ...
M29gg - hedgehog defeats or deceives strong opponents by cunning. ...
M29h - See the motives in square brackets. ...
M29i - See the motives in square brackets. ...
M29j - See the motives in square brackets. ...
M29k - A turtle (toad, frog) defeats strong opponents by cunning or perseverance. See the motives in square...
M29k1 - A turtle (toad, frog) gets into unpleasant situations due to its own stupidity or carelessness. See ...
M29l - See the motives in square brackets. ...
M29m - See the motives in square brackets. ...
M29n - See the motives in square brackets. ...
M29nn - See the motives in square brackets. ...
M29o - See the motives in square brackets. ...
M29o1 - As a result of its stupidity or antisocial behavior, the monkey dies or suffers damage. See the moti...
M29p - See the motives in square brackets. ...
M29q - See the motives in square brackets. ...
M29qq - See the motives in square brackets. ...
M29r - See the motives in square brackets. ...
M29v - The character defeats or deceives strong opponents using cunning. The protagonists are dwarf ungulat...
M29w - As a result of their stupidity or antisocial behavior, a jaguar (puma, ocelot) dies or suffers damag...
M29w1 - As a result of their stupidity or antisocial behavior, the leopard (panther, leopard) dies or suffer...
M29w2 - As a result of its stupidity or antisocial behavior, the tiger dies or suffers damage. See the motiv...
M29w3 - As a result of its stupidity or antisocial behavior, the lion dies or suffers damage. See the motive...
M29x - As a result of its stupidity or antisocial behavior, the hyena dies or suffers damage. See the motiv...
M29x1 - See the motives in square brackets. ...
M29y - See the motives in square brackets. ...
M29z - hero of the story is a character named “Beardless” or Aldar-Kose (Aldar is a “deceiver”, a b...
M29z1 - purely anthropomorphic character, or a character who bears the name of an animal or plant but does n...
M29z2 - Being smart and witty, the Gipsy overcomes strong adversaries...
M29z3 - The Gipsy (more often a female than a male) is an enemy overcome by the hero (heroine) or (rare) a w...
M30 - character who has no natural wings or can't fly long distances rises into the air, but falls or, hav...
M30a - The character flying over the village falls, is tied up, and defecated on him. ...
M30b - Birds give a non-flying or ugly character feathers so that he can fly or become beautiful, but then ...
M30c - A character flying through the air falls, violating the ban on talking, looking down, flying over vi...
M30d - To get into the air, a character without wings (usually a turtle or a frog) grabs a stick with the e...
M31 - A character who can't swim asks another to take him by water. He agrees, but throws the rider into t...
M32 - The character swallows food or water, or his own entrails, pieces of flesh flow out and fall out of ...
M32a - character's insides or pieces of flesh fall out of his back. He eats them, mistaking them for regula...
M33 - The character plugs or seals his anus tightly (with wax, clay, grass, etc.), or someone else does it...
M34 - An object is thrown at the character, which turns into a tail, and the character himself into a corr...
M35 - Two zoomorphic characters compete to see which of them will spend the whole night in the cold and st...
M36 - The character finds himself inside wood, stone, ice, etc. He or someone else makes a hole, but it's ...
M37 - Although the character's head or entire body is cut in two with an ax or split with a stick, the cha...
M38 - Person sees how others act using magic or according to their animal nature. He or she imitates their...
M38a - On a visit, the character sees how the owner acts with magic or techniques that suit his nature (in ...
M38a1 - The character imitates the sisters' sons-in-law or husbands, or the wife's brothers (shoshone's) or ...
M38a2 - The hen (other bird) cooks her own eggs and serves them to other animal persons (who imitated her wi...
M38b - The first wife, rejected or taken later than others, performs certain actions with the help of magic...
M38b1 - After the wedding, the wife is silent until her husband says certain words that indicate her origin....
M38b2 - Each of the three brothers comes to his father with his wife (fiancée). The younger brother or his ...
M38b3b - Mighty bird (more rare other creature/mythological person) helps a man (rare: a woman) because he (s...
M38c - blacksmith (supposedly) forges a person, rejuvenating or revitalizing him. ...
M38c1 - The character (supposedly) forges a person, rejuvenating or reviving him, the other unsuccessfully t...
M38c2 - To shove a horse or donkey, Jesus (the saint) cuts off his leg, nails a horseshoe to his hoof, and a...
M38c3 - A conceited smith attempts to rejuvenate an old woman (man). His magic helper tries to save the vict...
M38d - Two or more characters, which are small objects or small animals, live or travel together and die on...
M38d1 - bubble-head, the straw leg, the hair-neck are successively dying, trying to act like ordinary people...
M38d2 - Several characters (usually three), which are small objects, go traveling and must cross the river. ...
M38d3 - The character, who is a lump of earth (oatmeal, salt), blurred in the rain or after going to get wat...
M38d4 - Several characters that embody small objects (and a squirrel with them) travel together. The needle ...
M38d5 - Two or three types of cereals talk to each other, act together, etc. ...
M38d6 - Several characters embody small objects and die one at a time. The last one left laughs and rejoices...
M38d7 - Person who represents something fat (a sausage, a piece of fat, etc.) prepares a rich soup adding to...
M38e - mushroom (pumpkin) thinks that it is as durable as a tree. ...
M39a - fool lives with his brother (and mother), is sent on business, does ridiculous things (all or part o...
M39a1 - character misunderstands the first instruction, promises to do the right thing next time; literally ...
M39a2 - The character does ridiculous things, understanding the instructions too literally or one episode la...
M39a2a - fool buys spoons and/or a table, tells the table to go on its own feet, throws away spoons because t...
M39a2b - After buying salt or sugar, a fool pours them into a pond to salt or sweeten the water. ...
M39a2c - A fool (or a character pretending to be crazy) sows salt (small objects) like a grain. ...
M39a2d - Fools plant meat, horns, or bones in the hope of raising animals. ...
M39a2e - Forgetting his name, a fool remembers it when he accidentally hears a word. ...
M39a3 - fool kills a man, throws him into a pond, well, etc. A clever man throws a goat there. A fool search...
M39a3a - fool sees cracked objects (stumps, earth, ice), sympathizes with them and oils them. ...
M39a3b - fool decides that stumps need hats, puts pots on the stumps. ...
M39a4 - fool takes his own shadow for a character chasing him and gives her his property. ...
M39a4a - fool sells or gives an animal (plant, statue) meat, pet, cloth, etc., believing that the buyer will ...
M39a4b - foolish woman thinks that frogs will make yarn or cloth for her, or buy yarn and throw the material ...
M39a4b1 - Foolish woman throws her yarn ways (into the water, into the bush) and believes that somebody with w...
M39a4c - Fool sells property to birds and believes that they will pay him. Trying to get his money, he finds ...
M39a4d - Fool sells property a lizard and believes it will pay him. Trying to get his money, he finds treasur...
M39a4e - Fool sells property to a tree (stump, pole, a cross in the countryside) and believes that it will pa...
M39a4f - Fool sells property to the statue and believes that it will pay him. Trying to get his money, he fin...
M39a4g - Fool sells property to the dogs and believes that they will pay him. Trying to get his money, he fin...
M39a5 - fool led the goats to the fruit tree and killed them because they ate the fruit he had thrown. ...
M39a5a - Realizing that a stupid son, wife or (rarely) husband, after telling the truth, will cause trouble f...
M39a5a1 - Realizing that a son or wife, by telling the truth, will cause trouble for the family, the mother or...
M39a5a2 - My husband found a treasure. He knows his wife will talk about it. In order not to believe her, her ...
M39a5a3 - Realizing that a wife telling the truth will cause trouble for the family, the husband says that the...
M39a5b - The wife throws fish into the furrows or into the beds. My husband believes that the fish ended up t...
M39a6 - During the journey, a person allegorically asks someone else to say something, sing, etc., so that t...
M39a6a - After a long search, the ruler finds an intelligent wife for his son. At the mercy of his enemies, h...
M39a6b - The ruler, to whom the master builder went to work, is going to kill or maim him. The master asks to...
M39a6c - The poor girl agrees to marry the prince only if he learns a craft. The prince fulfills the conditio...
M39a6d - One of the relatives or spouses transfers a text or object to the other through third parties. Only ...
M39a6f - The father tells his son to sell the sheep (goat) and return it along with the proceeds. Usually a g...
M39a6g - person explains that he lends part of his earnings, and pays the debt in the other part, i.e. raises...
M39a6h - The king tells the commoner to pluck a goose (geese, shear a ram, etc.). He understands correctly: t...
M39a6i - A person sends food or things to another and tells the messenger to give the recipient some words th...
M39a7 - When instructed to wash the old man with warm water, the fool steams him with boiling water. ...
M39a8 - A fool drags the door from the house with him (usually raises it to a tree and drops it, scaring the...
M39a8a - A fool or buffoon climbs a tree taking a heavy objects with him and then drops it frightening those ...
M39a8b - Using a stratagem, someone who hides in a tree cuts (bits) off the tongue of a dangerous person and ...
M39a9 - The character asks a member of his family to bring vegetable products, cook food, and feed someone. ...
M39b - A person does not notice that he turned and swam back on the way, so he takes his home for enemies, ...
M39b1 - Once in the boat, some people row in one direction and others in the opposite direction, the boat re...
M39c - A fool is told that a round fruit is a mare's egg (donkeys, elephants, etc.). A fool buys fruit for ...
M39d - A person consistently and unintentionally harms others. The victims take him to a judge. He saves a ...
M39e - When reviewing the dispute, the judge asks about the secondary circumstances of the case. The offend...
M39e1 - A person appropriates property. The owner or his assistant puts the kidnapper in such a position tha...
M39e1a - The character claims that the mice ate iron (gold). ...
M39e2 - Two people hid their valuables together, and one of them secretly took them. He suggests asking the ...
M39f - A fool is left headless (usually trying to get into a bear's den). When asked whether the deceased h...
M39g - The girl weeps, imagining the dangers that threaten her future child; remembering an incident that c...
M39g1 - fool does not pull pants or boots over his feet, but jumps in them from above. ...
M39g2 - Numskulls try to shovel nuts with a pitchfork. F stranger shows them how to do this work more easily...
M39h - The wife wants to get rid of her husband and usually asks the spirit to blind him. The husband hides...
M39i - After going broke, a person decides to hang himself, but finds gold (specially put by the father whe...
M40 - The character is sent to get something relatively low in value. He asks for something else and shout...
M41 - The character throws his eyes (an inhaler has a tooth) up or into the distance. At first they return...
M42 - The character takes his eyes out of his orbits and loses them. He usually regains his eyes later, ma...
M42a - The character (usually after losing his own eyes) inserts seeds or berries into his eye sockets and ...
M42b - After losing his eyes, the character makes new ones out of resin or wax, sees again (often this is a...
M42c - Falling off a cliff and breaking his leg, the character eats his bone marrow. ...
M43 - To kill or catch a monster, he sees a figure made of wood or clay or a living person. Most often, a ...
M44a - The character discovers that someone is stealing game or fish from his trap, mountain, etc. or ravag...
M44b - The character discovers that someone is stealing game or fish from his trap, mountain, etc. or ravag...
M44c - A young hero steals the older character's food. He is usually caught, but not punished, but invited ...
M45 - When a zoomorphic character falls asleep or pretends to be dead (seriously ill), the animals he usua...
M45a - A person is sleeping or pretending to be asleep or dead. Animals take him for a dead man - they mour...
M45b - The old man carries a trough and lies down to rest, covered with it. The animals take the trough to ...
M45c - The character advises the other person to plant or sow boiled or roasted seeds or tubers, who follow...
M46 - Some creatures steal or own valuables. To return (get) them, the character turns into a small object...
M46a - The character turns into a baby, is picked up by the owners of valuables, and then steals valuables ...
M46b - The character turns into a tiny object or creature, swallowing or touching which a woman (usually a ...
M46c - The character turns into a needle, a garbage, a small insect. A woman swallows it and becomes pregna...
M46d - A small child cries and calms down only after being given a valuable item hidden in the house to pla...
M46e - They (promise to) give a child the Sun (and or the Moon) to play with...
M47 - When punishing a person or animal or restoring a dismembered body, a character intentionally or acci...
M48 - Trickster asks another zoomorphic character to turn him into a creature of his kind, but if he break...
M49 - The hero meets a character from the enemy camp and, taking on his form, penetrates enemies. Usually,...
M49a - hero needs to penetrate unnoticed into the locus of dangerous creatures; he meets an old woman (usua...
M50 - The character tries to join a group of stars (usually the Pleiades) or catch up with characters who ...
M51 - One of the two characters gets meat. The weaker deceives the stronger one, hiding the meat in his ab...
M52 - The character (by deception) kills an ungulates. He asks another to refresh the carcass, looks for a...
M53 - The character invites others to gather around him, focusing on an activity (usually dancing with the...
M53a - raven gathers seals or other marine mammals around and deceives them into killing them. ...
M53b - Trickster claims he's carrying songs in his bag. See M53 motif. ...
M53c - trickster, inviting birds to dance around him with their eyes closed, kills them one at a time and t...
M53d - The character pretends to be enemies coming; when people run away in fear, the character takes what ...
M53e - A character (always a raven) kills a whale and points others to imaginary signs that whale meat is n...
M53f - The character is involved in preparing food supplies. After leaving under some pretext, he returns i...
M54 - The character lives or stays at someone else's house; then goes far away, falls asleep, but wakes up...
M55 - A human or weaker animal character takes a stronger character to sleep in a supposedly dangerous pla...
M56a - A weak character hits a crocodile, but the crocodile is safe. He says he would be killed if the atta...
M56b - A weak character is tasked with bringing the skin (paw, tears, etc.) of animals that are stronger th...
M56c - The character promises to bring a snake. The snake agrees to have the character measure its length. ...
M56d - The character promises to fill the vessel with small flying living creatures. He bets with them that...
M57a - Instead of the usual secretions from the human body, beads, flowers, gold and other valuables pour i...
M57a1 - When a beautiful woman walks on the ground, jewels appear under her feet, flowers bloom, etc....
M57a2 - Instead of common body discharges a a man urinates, spits, etc. beads, flowers, gold and other valua...
M57a3 - Instead of common body discharges a a woman urinates, spits, etc. beads, flowers, gold and other val...
M57b - Beads or metals are the bodily secretions of a deity. ...
M57c - An animal (donkey, bull, horse, goat, bear, leopard) or inanimate object makes gold or food stand ou...
M57c1 - A man fights a bear or (Malayali) leopard and makes another person believe that this animal is defec...
M57d - A person consistently receives magical items that bring wealth. Others replace them or take them awa...
M57d1 - bird consistently gives a person magical objects (or gives one, with which he receives the rest) or ...
M57d2 - The man was about to cut down a tree. It himself, or the creature living on it or in it, asks not to...
M57d3 - A person receives a reward from a character who is associated with the wind. Cf. Motive K175 (“The...
M57d4 - A person receives a reward from a character who is associated with frost. ...
M58 - The earth is burning, the fire is chasing the character. A number of elements and objects refuse to ...
M59 - A small animal asks a large one to transport it across the river; consistently rejects all the seats...
M59a - After asking a large animal to transport it across the river, a porcupine kills or damages it. See M...
M60 - After injuring a demon (robber), the hero goes to his locus. There he, or (rarely) his assistant, pr...
M60a - The creature/character runs away or swims away with a hook, harpoon, arrow, or other object thrown b...
M60a1 - The hero meets a servant (usually a shepherd) and takes his form, after asking how he acts, how he t...
M60a2 - The servant must lick the master or mistress's feet or wound. The hero comes disguised as a servant ...
M60a3 - Avenging the seized property (a pet or a bird), the hero repeatedly comes to the offender in differe...
M60b - The deceiver, promising to cure a wounded or sick person, finishes him off and eats him or offers a ...
M60b1 - The crow promises to cure the fish, and eats it herself. ...
M61a - To get valuables, the character provokes a quarrel between their owners. When they start fighting ea...
M61a1 - The character (always a raven) provokes a seagull to quarrel with another bird, telling each one tha...
M61a2 - The character provokes a quarrel between two stones of different breeds. To do this, he told everyon...
M61a3 - The character tells each of two different species of fish how the other allegedly used to be hostile...
M62a - The hero quietly damages each of the two characters; they accuse each other, quarrel, fight. ...
M62b - Two or more characters aim their weapons at the hero in between, but they hit each other. ...
M62c - A weak character takes turns negotiating with two strong ones to compete in a tug of war. They don't...
M62d - trickster wears rotten skin, pretends to be another animal, and says that the name (i.e. himself) ha...
M62e - A weak character alternately negotiates with two strong ones to cultivate the site. Each of the stro...
M62f - The character asks others to come to him (to help him with his work or get a debt). Those called com...
M63 - Before reaching the part of the body that is most suitable for certain purposes, others are named or...
M64 - The character comes to the owner of valuables (food, fire) and pretends that he already owns them. A...
M65 - trickster bakes meat obtained by trick, deception; immobilized by sticking to a tree, ground, or sto...
M65a - The trees are creaking in the wind. Hearing a creak, the character climbs a tree and gets stuck. See...
M65b - Having resorted to deception, the character kills the game, but the thieves take the loot. See M53 m...
M66 - After eating certain foods frivolously or rubbing his body with his spine, the character suffers fro...
M66a - After eating a certain food, the trickster leaves a mountain of excrement that is larger than himsel...
M67 - By stupidity or carelessness, the character causes a wind that blows him away. See the M66 motif (Th...
M68 - Because of his own stubbornness, the character suffers from an irrepressible gas eruption and scares...
M69 - character is attracted by the inside of a large animal's skull (small animals or insects are dancing...
M70 - The oldest character poisons the youngest with his intestinal gases. ...
M70a - A character on whom an old woman defecates or whose face blows the winds pierces her from below with...
M71 - A character (usually carried away by a river or fallen from a height) turns into a piece of wood. So...
M72 - The character puts his hand into the anus of a tapir or other large herbivore and is unable to pull ...
M73 - Two characters compare their excrement or vomit to learn about each other's diet and decide which of...
M73a - Two (animal) persons compare their feces (with different purpose). One of them gets to exchange them...
M74 - A weak character regurgitates previously swallowed unusual food, or replaces his belching with a str...
M74a - The character pretends to be invited to visit several times in connection with the birth of a child,...
M74aa - The character (several times) pretends to be his name (that he is going to visit), and eats up suppl...
M74ab - Travelling in a boat or on a sledge, animal person (always the fox) steals food supplies or ruins ob...
M74b - The character adjusts so that the sign that identifies the thief who ate supplies or who should be e...
M74c - Having noticed the woodpecker's beautiful plumage, the wolf or bear believes that the fox painted it...
M74d - God (the saint) travels with his companion. When he leaves, he eats the kidneys (heart, etc.) and sa...
M74e - Two characters ask the third to share something edible between them. He bites off a little bit from ...
M75 - The character attracts and catches corpse eaters (usually birds) and as a result obtains valuables o...
M75a - The character lures a veteran to avenge his fall from the sky. Either the (potauatomi) shovel drops ...
M75b - A person hides in the skin or carcass of a large animal. A bird brings a skin or carcass to the nest...
M75b1 - A person (usually of high status) learns that a poor boy who is born will inherit his property or be...
M75b1a - A high-ranking person finds out that a (just born) poor or ugly girl is intended for him, or the gir...
M75b2 - bird tries in vain to prevent the marriage, which she learned was inevitable when the future spouses...
M75b3 - Enemies are shown a life-size or larger image of a horse or bull. Not realizing that this is a ruse,...
M75b4 - To master a woman, the hero hides inside the hollow figure of a horse (bull, deer) or in an animal c...
M75c - A person is offered to climb a rock or tree to get treasures. A return descent is not possible. Doom...
M75d - A man bereaves vultures of their hunting weapons or amulets...
M76 - A woman cuts off a man's leg when he climbs a tree; a man cuts off a woman's leg when she climbs a t...
M77 - The character stains another's clothes or bed with sewage or something that looks like sewage, threa...
M78 - A tiny little man performs a series of tricks, mocks people he meets and opponents. ...
M78a - A tiny little man emerges from the severed tail of a goat or sheep. ...
M78b - Wishing a baby, a childless woman gives birth to many tiny boys. She or her husband kill them or thr...
M78c - A tiny little man emerges from a severed finger. ...
M78d - A tiny boy (rarely a girl) comes from a pea (bean, seed) or from a spool of goat droppings, he is al...
M78e - A tiny boy comes from an animal's ear, compared in size to an ear, his name is “ear”. ...
M78f - When a woman falls asleep, a joker (usually a tiny boy) places an embryo or the entrails of an anima...
M78g - When the inhabitants of the house fall asleep, a joker (usually a tiny boy) ties them together in pa...
M79 - A person joins the dancers; it turns out that the dancers are reeds or trees in the wind. ...
M80 - The character insults a partridge bird, kills or offends its chickens; the partridge suddenly takes ...
M81 - Wandering, the hero finds himself in a place where blind or blind (two or more) live. ...
M81a - The hero meets two blind women and makes them sighted. These women are birds (geese, ducks, hazel gr...
M81b - The character is warned not to try to reach an arrow if it gets stuck in a tree. He breaks the ban a...
M81c - A person goes to heaven or (rarely) to the lower world, where he meets blind people (one or two), us...
M81d - A person meets (most often in the sky) one or two blind people and restores their sight. ...
M81e - young man undertakes to herd cattle and is warned not to cross the borders of a giant, dragon, witch...
M81e1 - A young man lives with an old man whose eyes or eyes were carried away by a giant. The young man goe...
M81e2 - By playing an instrument or otherwise, a character is able to attract an animal or person far away f...
M81f - blind beggar robs an honest man. He watches him and, when he enters the house, takes everything the ...
M82 - The character sees that something is tied to the other's tail. He also wants such a tail for himself...
M82a - One animal person inconspicuously ties rattles to the tail of another. The latter thinks that he is ...
M83 - Each character claims that he is older and appeared before this world or (Ingush) that his father wa...
M83a - The characters are arguing which one is older. After some people tell us how long they were born, th...
M83b - Two (or more) characters agree to give food to whoever has the best dream. One talks about a feast h...
M83c - Animals argue who of them gets drunk easier. The last one falls down because he becomes drunk as soo...
M84 - A person, animal, fish, or (rarely) a large fruit is killed and eaten. After a meal, what is eaten r...
M84a - After supernatural characters put the bones of a dead and eaten deer, cow, ram, or goat in its skin,...
M84b - An animal, bird or fish that is killed and eaten comes to life after its bones are thrown into the w...
M84b1 - A person enters a country from where fish come to people (and comes back). ...
M84b2 - The character carefully preserves the bones of migratory birds eaten (not fish or animals) and the b...
M84c - Sleeping in a deserted place, a person finds himself among spirits. One of them explains that he has...
M84d - A person hears trees talking, one of which is (fatally) ill and suffers. ...
M85 - character unable to climb a tree threatens to knock it down or climb a trunk if a bird or squirrel d...
M86 - A rock stalks or otherwise punishes a character when he unfairly insults her (usually takes away her...
M87 - The character comes to a place that is abandoned or seems to have been abandoned by the inhabitants....
M88 - The character follows the dancing girls and dies. ...
M89 - A character is humiliated after an object or creature made of wax, resin, or excrement that he made ...
M89a - Only horned animals are allowed to attend the festival. The hyena makes fake horns for itself, expos...
M90 - Someone asks a riddle about the material from which a particular item is made or originated. It is a...
M90a - The girl will marry the person who guessed her name, or someone who will fit the ring, or someone wh...
M90a1 - It is required to sew clothes from the skin of lice (fleas) or guess the origin of a large animal, a...
M90a2 - It should be guessed that the plant grew from a part of the body of a man or a snake or from dirt sc...
M90a3 - plant grows from a killed snake or part of a snake's body. ...
M90a4 - A tree is described on which jewelry or ornaments hang instead of fruits; individual parts of the tr...
M90a5 - The story mentions the golden fruits (rarely leaves) of a tree, usually golden apples. ...
M90a6 - Owning some apples ensures eternal youth. ...
M90b - The character was wrong when he claimed that the sun would never rise in the west or go down after m...
M90c - man agreed with another that he could take the first thing he touched from his house. The visitor is...
M91 - Pretending that the deceased has just been alive for a relatively long time, the character accuses o...
M91a - The character pierces a container of animal blood or other red liquid, simulating murder or suicide....
M91b - A person manages to fraudulently sell or exchange ash for gold and money. Others are unsuccessfully ...
M91b1 - A man is going to sell a pet skin. On the way, he gets big money by deception or by chance. Usually,...
M91c1 - The character (pretends to) take possession of someone's property (usually setting the owner to be k...
M91c2 - character is placed in a bag or chest, locked in a cage, tied, etc., to drown, burn, etc. When left ...
M91c3 - A person releases an animal or a bird - supposedly with his wife instructing his wife to cook food, ...
M91c4 - A person removes the pot from the fire, its contents continue to boil, or the person prepares food i...
M91c5 - The person himself or his little son goes to the bazaar to sell a cow (or another large pet). The cr...
M91c6 - A person sells a hat to others, convincing them that it pays the bill, you just have to lift it up (...
M91c7 - When enemies come to kill a person, he pretends to be dead. ...
M91d - The character deceives others by passing off the dead as alive, directing suspicions of murder to in...
M92 - Something red is glued to the character's eyelashes, he thinks it's a fire. ...
M93 - When falling asleep or going to do something else, the character tells a certain part of his body to...
M93a - The character punishes a part of his body (burns his ass, breaks his eyes) for not sounding the alar...
M94 - One character invites the other to roll down the mountain to destroy him. Cf. Motive L42C. ...
M94a - The demonic character kills his victims, provoking them to slide down the mountain. ...
M94a1 - By stupidity or negligence, a zoomorphic character rolls down a mountain and as a result dies or suf...
M94b - The character is lured to look under the mill wheel, he dies or is maimed. ...
M94b1 - The character is lured to look under the mill wheel, he dies or is maimed. ...
M95 - weaker character asks a stronger character to take the gift to his family and climbs into a basket, ...
M96 - In order not to share with family members, the character pretends to have guests and eats everything...
M97 - Blinded or far from the target, the character walks, bumping into trees of various species and askin...
M98 - The character counts the number of members in two huge and alternative sets (dead and alive, men and...
M99 - The character is going to abuse all birds or (less commonly) animals, but after hearing wise advice,...
M99a - The character is going to build a house (tower, etc.) from the bones or feathers of birds. ...
M99a1 - The character is going to pierce all the birds with their beaks (to string them on a rope) or cut th...
M100 - One of the characters encourages the other to go to bed on the edge of a cliff. At night he offers t...
M100a - One of the characters encourages the other to jump off a high cliff or tree, because this is what th...
M100b - One of the characters encourages the other to jump off a high cliff or tree, because this is what th...
M101 - The bear replies to the fox (rarely a sable, a wolf) that he is not afraid of people (he usually say...
M101a - Having learned that a person is supposedly stronger than him, a large predator finds a person and of...
M101b - A big predator wants to see humans. First he meets a child and finds out that he is a future person,...
M102 - The character believes that the other has temporarily separated his head or leg from himself, asks t...
M103 - One character asks another how her (his) children acquired valuable qualities (became beautiful, obe...
M104 - The character offers another to kill close relatives (children, brothers, mother), hides his own, cl...
M105 - The character hides his mother (wife, mother-in-law), but tells another that he killed or sold her, ...
M105a - The character hides his children, but tells the other person that he killed them, he believes. See M...
M106 - The character calls himself a made-up name that others understand not as their own, but as a househo...
M106a - The character who caused the damage calls himself a made-up name like “Nobody”, “I Myself”, ...
M106b - The character who harmed the antagonist calls himself a made-up name like “Last Year”, and other...
M106c - After telling his companions that his name is “Guest”, “For Guests”, etc., the character app...
M106d - saying that his name is “Son-in-law” (“Husband”, “Uncle”, etc.), the character deceives ...
M106e - A person says that supplies are made for winter, in case of need, etc. In the absence of the owner, ...
M106f - A stranger tells a woman he came from the dead. A woman gives him money and things with a request to...
M106g - A person lifts a cow (donkey, ox, wife) to the roof so that the animal eats the grass that grew ther...
M106h - A man puts his hat on the ground and pretends that there is something valuable underneath it. It's a...
M107 - A small character kills or maims a large four-legged dog by clutching its genitals. ...
M108 - The character calls to help him do the work (usually transporting property or provisions across the ...
M108a - Single elderly spouses adopt a trickster. He steals them (and runs away). ...
M108b - A deceiver carries away (in a boat) some person’s possessions. A small bird (usually a woodpecker)...
M109 - zoomorphic character sits down with his tail (penis) down so that something edible sticks to him, bu...
M109a - One zoomorphic character advises another to sit on the ice for a long time - usually until food fall...
M109a1 - zoomorphic character covers his head with dough (yogurt, butter, etc.) to show that his brain is bei...
M109b - A weaker character convinces the stronger one that he feels even worse than that one. Usually, the s...
M109c - The character is quietly tied to the tail and tries to escape (successfully or unsuccessfully). Cf. ...
M109d - zoomorphic character drops his tongue or tail into the water. The octopus or shell grabs it and hold...
M110 - Upon learning that it is being transported by water to eat, the land animal explains to the carrier ...
M111 - Two animals (usually a monkey and a turtle) agree to collect fruits. A person who knows how to climb...
M112 - zoomorphic character refuses to dig, clean, or fill a drinking water source and is not allowed to us...
M112a - Animals take turns protecting water or food, or using water. The deceiver takes what he needs or pre...
M112b - Animals that now do not see the sun (mole, shrew, earthworm) refuse to build a road together with ev...
M113 - In summer, at the height of the heat or constantly, birds of a certain species should not drink from...
M113a - A certain bird cannot drink water from rivers and lakes because instead of water it sees blood, fire...
M114 - character is asked to make (or does make) a rope or other object out of sand, ash, smoke, etc....
M114a - character is asked to sew clothes or shoes from stone or iron, or to remove the skin from the stone....
M114b - When a character is asked to do something at the same time and not to do something or not to do them...
M114b1 - When asked what is the sweetest thing (fat, fast, etc.), the clever calls abstract concepts and enti...
M114b2 - A man (a powerful character) asks a girl (subordinate) a question about the number of routine action...
M114b3 - When a girl is asked to prepare cloth from a handful of yarn, she asks to prepare for her weaving to...
M114c - The character wonders how the other's clothes (firewood, etc.) were dry after the rain - he covered ...
M114d - A person eats boiled eggs and leaves without paying. Much later he returns to repay the debt. The ow...
M114d1 - The character demands to remove the chickens (from boiled eggs) in a day, raise a chicken, and cook ...
M114e - The girl suggests that the visitor tie his horse to winter or summer, which means to a sleigh or a c...
M114f - The girl has a minor bodily defect. Man: The house is nice, but the pipe is crooked. Girl: But the s...
M114g - Only a boy, a young man, cleverly answers questions from a powerful character. When he asks why some...
M114h - A powerful character tells you to build a house hanging in the air. A person finds a witty way out o...
M114i - When asked where her father, mother, brother, etc., is answered by a girl or boy in such a way that ...
M114i1 - Person answers that his father (brother, etc.) is hunting; those animals that he gets to see. kills ...
M114j - The woman does not refuse the one who harasses her, but calmly explains that it makes no sense to tr...
M114k - liquid that is not normally used for drinking or cooking has been used once. You have to guess what ...
M115 - The character cunningly kills a dangerous predator. Relatives or friends of the victim find out abou...
M116 - People should kill their fathers (or mothers; nyoro: deprive them of power and property; Baluchis: d...
M116a - A man drags his father, intending to leave him to die in a deserted place, take him to an almshouse,...
M116b - monster drives people away. The old man gives advice on how to kill him in an ambush. ...
M117 - A fox or other predator asks the bird what it does when the wind blows. The bird shows how it puts i...
M118 - The character gets valuables or gets shelter inside an animal, tree, or room. Another follows suit, ...
M118a - chieftain brings robbers into the courtyard of someone else's house, hiding them in empty jugs, barr...
M118b - Once inside the animal, the character gets food there without harming the animal. ...
M119 - A character repeatedly shows another the same object or creature; another believes that there are as...
M120 - zoomorphic character undertakes to take care of another's children (raise them, teach them, treat th...
M120a - The character pretends to be a mourner, eats the dead (treats the body disrespectfully). ...
M120b - The character looks for a nanny (nurse, crying, shepherd, husband) and consistently rejects those wh...
M120c - Two animals agree to raise their children together. One of them eats the other's children, continuin...
M121 - louse or other similar creatures (flea, tick, firefly) are sent to follow a specific character. ...
M122 - In a difficult situation, the character asks for advice from his tail, penis or some creatures in hi...
M123 - A bird of prey or scavenger (crow, owl, hawk, coyote) marries (or tries to do so) with a partner who...
M123a - raven marries or tries to marry, posing as a leader and a handsome man. One day they notice someone ...
M123b - Trickster tricksters his wife and takes her away by boat. The woman asks for permission to go ashore...
M123c - non-migratory bird goes south with migratory birds, but is unable to reach the end. ...
M123d - Raven groom is rejected after the bride or her relatives discover that he is eating carrion or sewag...
M124 - The character buries the pet's tail (head, ears), claiming that it has fallen into the ground. He us...
M125 - The character lies to another like he's eating his own eyes. The other one agrees to eat hers. The f...
M126 - A person sees a talking skull (turtle) and reports it to the leader, the king. In the presence of th...
M127 - The character escapes, but is left without a tail (without an ear), and then tries to make other mem...
M127a - When asked by the character to laugh or feed him, the bird sits on the head of a person or cattle or...
M127b - The character attaches a vessel or part of it to the body, lowers it into the water, and the vessel ...
M127c - Seeing an object deliberately abandoned or accidentally thrown, or hearing a sound it makes, the cha...
M128 - Having agreed with the enemy that he will get animals with certain external characteristics or behav...
M129 - A parent or parent is going to transfer birthright (royalty, other virtues) to a chosen son. Another...
M130 - fox and the bird hide from the hunter in the same hole or hollow. The bird pretends to be dead and a...
M130a - The deceiver lures the animal into the hunter's trap. Another animal advises the victim to pretend t...
M130b - herbivore falls into the trap of a hunter. The predator does not want to release him because he hope...
M130c - When a lion (tiger, bear, elephant, human) is trapped, a mouse or rat releases it (usually gnawing t...
M131 - The character does not show that he is grabbed by the tail or leg. The other thinks he's grabbed the...
M132 - The enemy is ready to capture the character. He asks to take and throw away his clothes or shoes fir...
M132a - The predator thinks that a hornless herbivore has horns and is afraid of it, but it's just ears. ...
M133 - A cumulative fairy tale: a bird is injured on a thorny plant, asks him to punish, everyone refuses b...
M134 - Animals stand on top of each other to get something. The lowest one pops up, everyone falls after hi...
M134a - predator/cannibal blows and destroys a fragile house, but cannot destroy a solid one. Usually, two o...
M134b - When a predator is about to eat a person, he asks for permission to measure him first and hits him w...
M134c - zoomorphic character climbs into the cellar (pantry, garden, etc.) and eats up so much that he can't...
M135 - Two ungulates - usually after the wolf agrees to divide the meadow between them - butt the predator ...
M135a - wolf (rarely a bear, jackal, fox) approaches various pets (less often only one animal) to eat them, ...
M135b - Wolf (rare: jackal, fox) comes to different domestic animals (rare: only to one animal) to eat them ...
M136 - Some people don't know what to do with cutting guns; they try to use instead tools that are not suit...
M136a - People are trying to bring light, darkness, smoke, etc. into or out of the room....
M136b - A person cuts a branch on which he sits and similar options (cuts the rope on which he climbed up; c...
M136c - fool takes a passerby for a visionary and asks when he will die. He jokingly replies that this will ...
M136d - A person dreams of becoming rich little by little and forgets that this has not happened yet. As a r...
M136e - A man complains that large trees have small fruits. When an acorn (nut, pear) falls on his head, he ...
M137 - weaker predator tries to imitate a stronger one, but cannot do things that a powerful one does easil...
M138 - At first, everyone was given 20 or 30 years of age. This is a lot for animals, but not enough for hu...
M138a - At the beginning of time, a supreme deity or his messengers decided that the human lifespan would be...
M139 - fox caught the birds and packed them in a bag. Another character quietly swapped them with thorns. ...
M140 - The character pretends to be dead, sick, or weak, picked up, and eats food carried by others-usually...
M140a - fox cunningly connects a wolf or person and runs away. ...
M140b - The fox cunningly connects the wolf. A bird unties it, a grateful wolf adorns its plumage. See b97, ...
M141 - Several animals of different species find themselves in a hole from which they can't get out. They d...
M141a - In a collection of different animals, one of those present describes the weakest as irrelevant to th...
M141b - animal takes an insignificant event (a leaf, an acorn falls, etc.) as the beginning of a catastrophe...
M142 - zoomorphic character accuses his tail of only preventing him from escaping the chase (he usually pun...
M143 - Once in a hole or well, one character convinces another to go down to it, so he gets out on his own,...
M144 - One character manages to convince another that dangerous and inedible objects are attractive and tas...
M144a - The character asks a large and dangerous animal (tiger or elephant) to carry a bag of straw and sets...
M145 - One zoomorphic character shows another his reflection in a pond. He believes that a beast like him c...
M146 - Knowing that the meat is trapped or poisoned, or that there is a trap ahead, the zoomorphic characte...
M147 - A weak beast tells the strong that everyone is afraid of him, the weak, and suggests checking it out...
M147a - When the foxes (wolves) meet and one of them (one of the wolves) asks when they will see each other ...
M147b - To get rid of fleas, a fox (jackal) takes a bunch of moss (hay, grass) in its mouth and immerses its...
M148 - One zoomorphic character asks another to agree to be eaten - he usually says that he will be resurre...
M149 - A strong opponent is ready to kill a hero (human or weak animal). Someone, as if not knowing this, l...
M149a - The character, frivolously or against his own will, is bound by a contract with a predator that he c...
M149b - A person says that in his stomach (in a box) dangerous creatures he has swallowed (put in a box) tha...
M150 - Having begun to herd the herd, the character eats animals trusted to him. ...
M151 - A dangerous character pretends to be dead or missing or pretending to be an inanimate object. The po...
M152 - Seeing an approaching predator (giant, etc.), the weak character pretends to thank the person who le...
M152a - A strong predator (cannibal giant) and a weak predator tie together with the same rope to feel more ...
M152b - a herbivorous ungulates (usually a donkey) for the first time, a large predator thinks that it is st...
M152c - The weak companion of a large predator pretends to be strong and brave. When he is carried away by a...
M152d - An elephant and a tiger (lion) clash (usually competing to see who will make a louder roar). The tig...
M152e - A tiger (lion) and another animal compete whose roar is louder. The tiger roars louder, but eventual...
M152f - Animals agree to eat up one of them whose voice is the lowest...
M153 - Under various pretexts, the ungulate asks the predator to examine its hoof, and then kills or maims ...
M153a - The predator is going to eat a person or herbivore. The intended victim asks to be allowed to wash h...
M153b - A wolf is killed or maimed after agreeing to a pet's offer to ride a horse. ...
M154 - A person who has learned animal language laughs when he hears them talking. The wife or mother-in-la...
M154a - One pet (usually a donkey) encourages the other to pretend to be sick. After that, the adviser has t...
M154a1 - A person who understands animal language hears a mare saying that it is carrying four (three): she h...
M154b - The husband (rarely: son) will stay at home instead of his wife (mother), but he does everything bad...
M155 - The father or mother (pretends to) fall asleep naked (naked). One of the children is covering for hi...
M156 - A dangerous animal is about to kill a person or other animal - usually the one who freed it from the...
M156a - Dangerous animal seeks to kill a person or other animal who rescued it from captivity. The dangerous...
M157 - The character claims that a man, male animal, or object gave birth (or that it is menstruating) or t...
M157a1 - The character proves the absurdity of another's statements by stating in response that his or her fa...
M157a2 - The character claims that the calf (goat, etc.) did not give birth to a cow (goat, etc.) of another ...
M157a3 - The character requires another to provide him with offspring or milk from a male animal. ...
M157a4 - The character proves the absurdity of the other's statements, claiming that he (or someone else) was...
M157a5 - A person finds a golden (rarely marble, etc.) mortar (bell) and brings it to the powerful character....
M157a6 - To help a person answer the ruler's questions, a servant or friend replaces him and gives witty answ...
M157b - The husband drives his wife away, allowing her to take the most precious thing for her. She takes he...
M157c - To embarrass the character, others present pre-stored chicken eggs that the character doesn't have. ...
M157d - Animals (mostly domestic animals) and/or humans consistently join forces to achieve the goal (usuall...
M158 - A person and an animal (devil) or two animals decide to cultivate the field and divide the crop so t...
M158a - Two animal persons work their land together and agree to share the profits. While one is working har...
M159 - The strongest character (usually a lion) suggests dividing the loot (harvest). The one who is more c...
M160 - A strong wild animal and a man became friends. A person breaks a promise made to the beast or speaks...
M161 - The character gives the other a bag that should contain food, but in fact there is a dog; or frees t...
M162 - The character pretends to be eating his own entrails or his own meat. Others believe and kill (let t...
M162a - The character pretends to eat his own genitals. The other one believes and disintegrates himself. ...
M162b - The character pretends to rub the juice of sour berries into his eyes. The other (always a bear) wan...
M163 - A person finds himself in a country where there are many mice (rats, snakes), but no cats. He sells ...
M163a - After people who were tortured by mice finally got a cat, they fear that it will now eat them themse...
M163b - A person gets advice to throw money into the water and take only what comes up. This makes him happy...
M164 - The character refuses to enter the predator's lair when he sees that all traces lead in but not out....
M164a - Asking animals if his mouth really smells bad (or if his lair is dirty), the predator (lion, wolf) k...
M165 - One zoomorphic character promises another to sew a fur coat (boots), asks him to bring sheep, eats t...
M166 - The predator invites a potential victim in the tree to go down (he usually tells the bird that there...
M167 - In the dark, a person mistakes a tiger (lion, demon) for another person or for a pet (bull, ox). ...
M167a - A strong predator takes an incomprehensible word for the name of a creature that is stronger than hi...
M168 - The hares are desperate that they are the most cowardly, but they are happy to learn that there are ...
M168a - An animal or bird that regularly uses the fruits of a farmer's crop or lives in his field continues ...
M168b - bird or person who becomes a bird is tasked with bringing a stick that is neither straight nor crook...
M169 - In the presence of a powerful character, one of the downstairs intrigues against the other. He says ...
M170 - Pretending to be only concerned about performing religious rituals or fulfilling regulations (he rep...
M170a - The predator accuses the herbivore of sins and eats it. ...
M170b - The zoomorphic character put his head in a vessel, which crashed, leaving the corolla around his nec...
M171 - The character stays at the house and in the morning declares that the insignificant item or animal h...
M171a - A character (often zoomorphic) gets a girl (boy), consistently exchanging smaller values for larger ...
M171b - The character pretends to bring meat on the shoulder bone, lets the owners cook. Taking a bare bone ...
M171c - At the character's request, another removes a thorn from his body (cuts off the tip of his tail, etc...
M171c1 - Person has only a bast-shoe (or later asserts that he/she had the bast-shoe with him/her). He/she as...
M171d - The character changes one for another and eventually gets a musical instrument (usually a drum). ...
M172 - To show that a strong character is his slave, a mount, a weak character adjusts so that a strong cha...
M173 - zoomorphic character pretends to be dead where a traveler carrying luggage must pass. The traveler p...
M173a - The character throws one of the paired items in the other's way. The traveler passes by, but when th...
M174 - A weaker character adjusts so that the stronger one loses the ability to move while still alive. The...
M175 - The hyena sees the carcass of a larger predator behind him, does not understand that he is dead, and...
M176 - The characters agree to jump over a ditch, stream, etc. or cross it on a log, rope, etc. One or all ...
M177 - weak predator eats a part of the victim's body and explains to the strong that the victim did not ha...
M177a - One zoomorphic character teaches another to keep quiet, look at him or to the side when a third trie...
M178 - The owner consistently sends others to herd a goat (a herd of goats). The goat eats plenty of grass,...
M179 - Two zoomorphic characters live side by side, one's house is destroyed, he asks the other to shelter ...
M179a - One character, by deception or in the absence of another, occupies his home and refuses to return it...
M179b - One zoomorphic character asks another (or person) to let him dry out, warm up, etc. Once inside, he ...
M180 - zoomorphic character invites someone else to visit, but serves food in such a way that he can't take...
M180a - zoomorphic character invites another to visit, but requires that you wash your hands or feet before ...
M181 - Two characters are invited to the party. (On the way and) getting to the place, one deceives the oth...
M181a - The character believes that unattainable natural sites are accessible cultural sites. He usually agr...
M181b - The story of the Spider Trickster ends with his transformation into a spider that lives under a roof...
M182 - To catch a thief, a deceiver, the property owner puts a sticky figure to which the person who comes ...
M182a - A person coats resin on a bull, a horse (usually makes a figure that comes to life), or an object; w...
M182a1 - A person catches several wild animals and lets them go for promising to bring gifts or be useful. An...
M182b - The animals ask them to ride in a sleigh. Sledges break down, animals bring unusable material from t...
M183 - Numerous relatives of the character, who all look the same, together perform an impossible task for ...
M183a - Two are arguing which of them will eat or drink more. One of them is constantly replaced by his rela...
M184 - fast-footed and slow characters agree to race. The quick-footed is confident in victory and is in no...
M185 - fast-footed animal (a flightless bird) and a slow character agree to compete in running or jumping. ...
M185a - Birds, animals, fish compete to see which of them runs or swims faster, or who will fly the highest....
M186 - The animal (fox, wolf, leopard) runs along the coast, and fish (burbot, goby) swims in the water. Th...
M187 - By racing, the snail defeats a faster opponent. ...
M187a - Two fish (fish and whale, dolphin, squid and dolphin, etc.) agree to race. ...
M187b - The swiftest runner must receive the harvest...
M187c - A crab participates in the race and wins...
M188 - A character is honored after accidentally taking on an unusual appearance - getting dirty with paint...
M188a - The character demands to be treated like a ruler (he usually sits on a bunch of garbage and demands ...
M189 - To thread a thread through a spiral shell (a stone with a hole, a horn), the character ties a thread...
M190 - A beaver transports porcupine across a water barrier. He usually dumps it into the water or leaves i...
M191 - A fox (dog, squirrel) lives with whom and passes it off as a strong animal; forest predators are fri...
M191a - mice decide to hang a bell around the cat's neck or tail to know that it is approaching. Usually non...
M191b - A person does good (does no harm) to a snake (fish, lion) and benefits from it. His son (rarely some...
M191c - singing (threats, courtesies), the wolf (less often the bear) consistently forces the old man to giv...
M192 - scavenger who climbs into an animal's carcass or wears fresh animal skin cannot get out of it, becau...
M192a - The character agrees to be put on freshly skinned or wrapped in damp belts. Skins or belts cause pai...
M193 - To avoid predators (suitors) on the way back, the character climbs inside a pumpkin, a round cauldro...
M193a - The mice decide to hang a bell around the cat's neck or tail to know that it is approaching. Usually...
M194 - Several animals take possession of items that belonged to humans. When distributing the loot, one ke...
M195 - The character must guess which of the two horses is older. He does this by knowing how horses behave...
M195a - The character sends a long object that either looks the same at both ends or is inside a small objec...
M195b - A person puts a needle (thread, stick) in the ear of two or three dolls (skulls). In different dolls...
M196 - Husband and wife agree to give a negligible reward to someone who stays silent longer. Both or one o...
M196a - Arguing over a negligible reason, the husband and wife (or one of them) lie down and do not move, th...
M197 - Seriously or demonstrating the absurdity of such actions, the character tries to fry or cook somethi...
M197a - man took the pot (pot) and returned it with a small pot. The boiler owner agreed that the big boiler...
M197b - The owner claims that the other's mares were necklaced or thrown away because his stallions far from...
M197c - A person sells sand, dust, etc. as a remedy for fleas, mice, etc. Explains that it is necessary to c...
M197d - To find a thief, a person gives the crowd sticks and says that the thief will have sticks longer ove...
M197e - When going to meet a demon or beast, a person brings his wife (rarely: grandfather), who is covered ...
M197e1 - Demon claims form himself the harvest from the field possessed by a man. He agrees to renounce his r...
M197f - The person answers why his head is gray and his beard is not: his beard is 20 years younger. ...
M198 - In the house of a khan (judge, king, etc.), three brothers (rarely one person) determine that the fo...
M198a - Brothers (rarely: one person) inconspicuously identify the characteristics of a pet they have not se...
M198a1 - three brothers consistently and for no apparent reason determine the characteristics of an object or...
M198a2 - A person, by signs that are invisible to others, determines that a jewel (a gem, an expensive sword)...
M198a3 - One of the brothers steals a treasure for which all of them have equal rights or he is a bastard. Br...
M198a4 - Listeners of a story must answer whom they liked more: a husband who let his wife go to another man,...
M198b - A person who does not know how to find missing persons and expose thieves successfully does so, than...
M198b1 - A powerful character invites a person named Cancer to guess what is in the box (under the lid on a d...
M198b2 - A powerful character invites a person whose name is the name of an insect (most often Grasshopper) t...
M198b3 - imaginary fortuneteller accidentally manages to find the missing, he is awarded and close to the own...
M198b4 - The imaginary fortuneteller, while awaiting exposure, utters words that reflect his state of mind. T...
M198b5 - An imaginary fortuneteller accidentally overhears someone's conversation, otherwise he would not be ...
M199 - A man and a giant (devil, predator, robber) agree to test their strength by crushing a stone. A man ...
M199a - The man buried something soft and liquid in the ground, and when he stomped (fired an arrow into thi...
M199b - man and his opponent agree to test their strength by throwing a stone. The enemy throws a stone, and...
M199c - A person pretends to have thrown or is about to throw an object to a place where it cannot be return...
M199c1 - man and his opponent agree to test their strength - who will throw the heavy object next. A person p...
M199d - man and his opponent agree to compete in wrestling and running. A person puts his “relatives” in...
M199d1 - devil (cannibal) offers a person a competition: who will climb a tree faster. A person puts his chil...
M199e - man and his opponent compete to see which of them will be able to carry the horse. The enemy can har...
M199f - The character pretends to want to deprive the devils (aquatic inhabitants) of their habitat (pull to...
M199g1 - A person (a weaker animal) deceives a giant strongman (a trait, a stronger animal). One episode: bot...
M199g2 - The deceiver makes it so that the tiger with whom they carry meat on the pole holds the end of the p...
M199h - The character hides a bag under his clothes, imperceptibly putting food in it. After ripping the bag...
M199i - A person and a giant (hell, bear, etc.) compete to see who will make a louder sound (whistles louder...
M199j - The giant puts a man on his shoulders to carry him across the river. Believing that he is strong, he...
M199k - The giant sends a man to fetch water, giving him a huge wineskin. He cannot raise so much water, but...
M199l - When the giant blew, sneezed, etc. or let go of the bent tree on which the man was sitting, he was t...
M199m - man explains to the demon that heavy objects such as a harrow or millstone lying by the road are jus...
M199n - The man offers the demon to fill his hat, bag, etc. with money. The demon does not notice that there...
M199o - A man and his adversary have a contest to see who can make a (deeper) hole in a tree (stump) with hi...
M200 - old man and boy set off with a donkey. They try all the options: only an old man sits on a donkey, o...
M201 - A fast-growing mushroom (melon) believes that an oak tree will soon outgrow. The mushroom (pumpkin w...
M202 - A person pulls a splinter out of the paw (bone from the throat) of a dangerous predator or demon, wh...
M203 - A supernatural being sends a message to an unknown addressee through a person he meets. Upon fulfill...
M203a - A supernatural being transmits a message through a person he meets to an unknown addressee, transmit...
M204 - A male deity and his wife, or a rich man and his wife, see a poor man. The wife persuades her husban...
M204a - Gold was planted on a man's way to use it. At this time, a person accidentally closes his eyes and w...
M205 - Warriors lay siege to a city or palace. They catch or receive as a tribute the birds that live there...
M206 - A guard (courtier) agrees to open a man an access to a powerful person after a promise to share with...
M207 - A poor married couple (a poor man) bemoans life’s harshness and blame Adam and Eve who through the...
N1 - The fabulous and epic texts start from the beginning, which states that today's huge objects were ti...
N2 - Fabulous and epic texts start from the beginning, which states that animals were performing human so...
N3 - One finger says he's hungry and/or offers to steal something. The rest of the fingers express their ...
N4 - Fused ribs are a sign of heroic strength. {The motive was highlighted and the material was collected...
N5 - Long trips, hikes, flights, or battles are described using a formula that indicates that characters ...
N6 - horse tells the rider to whip it so hard that his blood splashes, his skin peels off, the meat is cu...
N7 - fairy-tale text ends with a formula that says that three apples fell from the sky or tree, at least ...
N8 - fairy-tale text ends with a formula that says that the characters placed the narrator in a gun or gu...
N9 - Two characters discuss the rider's approach. A person with a higher social status explains that what...
N10 - A woman or (rarely) a man with a transparent body is described. This transparency is a sign of beaut...
N10a - A woman or (rarely) a man with a transparent body is described - bones are visible through the skin,...
N10b - A girl or (rarely) a young man with a transparent neck is described, through which you can see the d...
N10c - A girl is described, through whose body you can see her internal organs or the food she has swallowe...
N11 - The character wants to have a child or spouse who is as white and blush as snow (milk) and blood. ...
N12 - A powerful character makes or tells you to make a cloak or fur coat from human beards and/or mustach...
N13 - A girl, a girl is associated with scissors (and a boy, a boy with a knife or an ax). ...
N14 - fairy-tale text ends with a formula stating that the narrator attended a feast and/or wedding arrang...
N15 - fairy-tale text ends with a formula that says that the narrator ate food and/or drinks, but they did...
N16 - fairy-tale text ends with a formula stating that the narrator had a horse and/or harness made of wax...
N17 - fairy-tale text ends with a formula stating that the narrator met with the characters described and ...
N18 - fairy-tale text ends with a formula stating that the narrator received food, drinks, money or other ...
N19 - fairy-tale text ends with a formula stating that one or two people who met the narrator after the fa...
N20 - fairy tale text ends with a formula that says that the characters have achieved their desires, goals...
N21 - The warrior-hero was made of dough and then became alive (his name is “The Dough”)...
N22 - fairy-tale text ends with a formula that says that if the characters are not dead, they are still al...
N23 - fairy-tale text ends with a formula that says that the characters stayed or left where the action to...
N24 - You can see a light that resembles a second moon or a second sun. It comes from a pretty girl. ...
N25 - said that characters spend a long time (days, weeks, months, years) on the road, but end up walking ...
N26 - said that the action took place when cultivated plants (wheat, cotton) grew on ice or salt. ...
N27 - Bird milk (variant: chicken, pigeon, hawkish, etc.) milk is mentioned in fairy tales, riddles, paroe...
N27a - It is said that somewhere there is (or was) even bird’s milk...
N27b - It is said that someone is only lacking bird’s milk or that somewhere the only thing missing is bi...
N27c - It is claimed that the bird has no milk and/or breasts...
N28a - The roots (belt) of mountains or stones are mentioned in myths, riddles, spells, and songs as someth...
N28b - In a list of things that do not exist in the world, a ladder or stairway to the sky (variant: a ladd...
N28c - In a list of things that do not exist in the world, a pillar of the sky is mentioned...
N28d - In a list of things that do not exist in the world, a lid or covering for the sea, ocean or river ar...
N28e - In a list of things that do not exist in the world, a bridge across the sea, ocean or lake is mentio...
N28f - It is said that water has no boughs or twigs...
N28g - In a list of things that do not exist in the world, a gall of horse or ass is mentioned...
N28h - In a list of things that do not exist in the world, horns of the horse are mentioned...
N29 - time required to perform an action or elapsed since the event described is estimated by comparing it...
N30 - formula that describes the confusion of feelings: when a character looks in one direction, he cries,...
N31 - Late autumn and then winter sets in line with the departure of two or three species of birds flying ...
N32 - The ornithomorphic character is said to be sitting on several trees. ...
N33 - hero drives the enemy into the ground, or he and the enemy alternately drive each other into the gro...
N34 - Streams (jets) that consist not of water but of honey (honey and butter, butter and milk, milk and b...
N35 - Somewhere milk rivers flow with banks made of jelly (porridge) - a sign of abundance (impossible in ...
N36 - is said about the horse that it jumps above trees (grass, the surface of the earth) and below the sk...
N37 - The character is said to sleep under the sky (like a blanket). ...
N38 - The character asks others which key is better - lost and found or new. This refers to a forgotten an...
N39 - The image of a three-ply rope is used to describe the invincibility of two close-knit friends...
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A1 - Another sun - less powerful or less favourable to humans - existed before the present sun. ...
A1a - Before the sun came, the world was illuminated by a large, brightly colored bird...
A2 - In a certain time in the past three or more suns were on the sky simultaneously...
A2a - The world has been or will be (almost) burned down when several suns are lit or are lit at the same ...
A2a1 - Initially, the Moon was as bright and hot as the Sun...
A2b - In addition to the current sun and/or the current moon, others shone in the sky, which were then des...
A2b1 - Two or more suns shine in the sky. When the extra ones are destroyed, there is a danger that the lat...
A2c - The extra suns that were in the past or may appear in the future are the children of the Father Sun....
A2c1 - The sun is going to have kids. One animal warns that if the Sun has children, the world will burn. T...
A2c2 - The catastrophy that is dangerous for the earth is related to the simultaneous appearance of not onl...
A2d - Other suns illuminate other levels of the universe or will shine consistently in the future. ...
A2e - Different suns shine in the sky at different times during the same day. ...
A3 - The moon is female or two-sexed, the Sun is male, or probably male. ...
A4 - The sun is a woman (the moon is usually male, sometimes also female, see motive A6; in the list of e...
A4a - In order not to look at it, the Sun blinds people's immodest eyes (usually stabs with needles, these...
A4b - The sun has decided to walk across the sky during the day because it is afraid of the night. ...
A4e - An anthropomorphic person associated with the thunder and rain rides on the clouds (uses them as a v...
A5 - month is a man, the Sun is also a man or (rarely) has no gender. ...
A5a - younger brother (usually the Sun) is made from the urine and diapers of an older brother (usually th...
A6 - The sun and moon are considered female characters (including the cases of Tuscarora, Oneida, when th...
A7 - The sun and the month/moon are creatures of the opposite sex. A man is chasing a woman or a woman af...
A7a - The light of the sun (moon, Venus) is a burning torch in the hand of the star. ...
A8 - The sun, moon and stars are three brothers or three sisters. ...
A8a - The sun, moon and star (stars) appear as three consecutive and comparable objects/characters in the ...
A8b - When the Sun descends below the horizon, it shines to the anthropomorphic denizens of the netherworl...
A9 - Luna Woman does not allow her son or husband Sun to destroy humans. ...
A10 - The sun gets its sparkling eyes (eyes) from the animal. ...
A11a - The visible sun or moon is their eyes; if the eyes of the lights were not damaged, it would be much ...
A11b - The Sun or One-Eye Month (blind). See motive 11A. ...
A11c - The sun and moon kill a monster whose eyes shine differently. At first, the Moon takes a brighter ey...
A12 - A creature or creatures regularly (sunrise and set, winter and summer, night and day, moon phases) o...
A12a - During an eclipse or under other circumstances, predators attack the stars: wolf, bear, jaguar, puma...
A12b - During an eclipse or at sunset (marked with*), a toad or frog swallows the lights. ...
A12c - Eclipses of the sun, moon, or their setting (marked with*) are caused by a snake, lizard, dragon, fi...
A12d - Birds attack the sun or moon during an eclipse (cover them with their wings) or (*) cover the sun du...
A12e - spider causes eclipses of the moon. See motive A12. ...
A12f - luminaries fade because the lender demands that they repay the debt. ...
A12g - The character tries to overshadow the month for talking about his crime. ...
A13a - The raven steals or hides the sun or tries to do so. ...
A13a1 - The raven saves or retrieves hidden or stolen sun (daylight). ...
A13b - During an eclipse or when night first appears, ants darken the sun. ...
A14 - The encounter between the sun and the moon is the cause of eclipses or lunar phases. ...
A14a - The Sun and the Moon are or were enemies, either permanently or in particular situations...
A15 - An eclipse or spots on the lunar disk are due to the fact that the moon or sun is turning on the wro...
A16 - Every night, the sun passes by creatures or objects trying to swallow and destroy it. ...
A17 - Halfway through the sky or through the underworld, the Sun stops to rest. ...
A18 - The sun and/or moon make their day and/or night (underground, in the country below the horizon, over...
A19a - Moving through the sky every day, the sun changes mounts (usually rides an animal that moves slowly ...
A19b - Moving across the sky, the sun changes mounts depending on the season - it rides slowly in summer, a...
A19c - The sun is associated with a rider or rides in a horse-drawn (ecwid) wagon. ...
A19c1 - The sun goes across the sky in a wagon or sleigh. ...
A20 - The sun and moon (or Sun and Star, Month and Star) are children, teenagers who initially live on ear...
A21 - The sun and/or moon were objects that were abandoned or placed in the sky. ...
A21a - The moon is an object accidentally released by its owners or stolen from them and as a result falls ...
A22 - One or two people fall into a fire or boiling water and ascend to the sky, turning into a sun and/or...
A22a - Two characters burn; one becomes the current sun and the other becomes a less significant celestial ...
A22b - The sun and its satellite burn down. The satellite burns at a less hot fire (rushes into ash, etc.);...
A22c - In order for the sun to rise, move away from the earth, or follow its heavenly path, a person must b...
A22d - A burned character turns into a constellation or dark spot on the Milky Way. ...
A23 - first ancestors come together to choose who should be the sun to raise the sun to the sky, to see th...
A23a - Arguing about superiority or seniority, the characters agree to decide who will be the first to see ...
A23b - Two characters are arguing about which of them will be the first to see the rising sun. The winner i...
A23c - Birds are arguing which of them will fly higher or arrive first. The winner is the one whose victory...
A23d - Animals argue which of them should stand at the beginning of the calendar cycle (twelve months or ye...
A24 - The first ancestors live at dusk. When they are first exposed to the sun, they die, turn into animal...
A24a - When the first day or first night falls, humans become supernatural characters. ...
A25 - When people go to earth (for the first time or after a global catastrophe) or when they are present ...
A26 - bird embodies the sun, daylight; it can be caught, released, killed. ...
A27 - The light and/or heat of the sun and/or moon is contained in their crowns, necklaces, or clothing (m...
A28 - The smart Sun man draws the stupid Month into all sorts of tricks he can't invent himself. Trying to...
A29 - A character connected to the upper world, and a character connected to the land or lower world, each...
A29a - Heavenly and earthly women (demon) pull a man in different directions. As a result, he (or half of i...
A29b - A character connected to the upper world, and a character connected to the land or lower world, each...
A30 - A month comes down to earth to eat children, dead bodies, or bones from the dead. ...
A31 - As a result of intimate contacts, love conflict, etc. The month (Moon) takes on its current appearan...
A31a - Upon learning that her husband or lover has done something incompatible with accepted norms, the wom...
A32 - On the lunar disk, you can see a figure or print of a creature or object. In statistical calculation...
A32a - On the lunar disk, you can see the figure or body print of a rabbit or hare. ...
A32b - The lunar disk shows the figure or body print of a toad or frog, and the moon is associated with thi...
A32b1 - A woman sits (jumps) on the face (back) of a month-old man and is now visible in the silhouette of m...
A32c - Human and dog figures are visible (or should have been seen) on the lunar disk. ...
A32c1 - The lunar disk shows the figure or print of a predatory mammal (fox, wolf, dog, coyote, jaguar, lion...
A32d - The lunar disk shows the figure or body print of an anthropomorphic creature. ...
A32d1 - Cain and Abel are associated with the moon and are usually distinguishable (both or only Cain) in th...
A32d2 - A person with a pitchfork in his hands can be seen in the silhouette of moonspots. ...
A32dd - The lunar disc shows the figure or imprint of an anthropomorphic character carrying a bunch of firew...
A32e - On the lunar disk, you can see a character holding an object or animal. See A32D motif. ...
A32f - On the lunar disk, you can see a character going to get water and/or holding a liquid vessel in his ...
A32g - The lunar disc shows a character holding on to a tree or bush and ending up on the moon with it. See...
A32h - The lunar disk shows a tree, a bush, a branch, a driftwood, etc. See motif A32G. ...
A32i - On the lunar disk, you can see a shepherd (a shepherd and a girl, a shepherd and his herd, dogs). ...
A32j - shaman with a tambourine rises to the moon and stays there, visible in the silhouette of moon spots....
A32k - A character who can be seen in the silhouette of moonspots first went to the sun and only then went ...
A32l - On the solar disk, we can see the silhouette of a particular character. Or the character got into th...
A32m - The Moon is called the “Gypsy Sun”...
A33 - The sun looks like a large non-predatory mammal (bull, sheep, pig, antelope, rhino, etc.) or rides i...
A34 - jackal, coyote, or fox are associated with the moon (usually with the appearance of moonspots). ...
A35 - Dark spots on the lunar disc are dirt, blood, paint, traces of beating, burning, scratching, etc. on...
A35a - Moon spots are dirt (manure, clay, ash, dough, dirty cloth) thrown into the face of the Moon/Month a...
A35b - The character tries to cover the moon with resin to make it less bright. ...
A35c - Moon spots are scratches and wounds on the character's face. ...
A36 - The Moon, unlike people, revives or rejuvenates every month; or those who live in the Moon are immor...
A36a - The sun is opposed to humans as immortal to mortals; it is responsible for the mortal nature of huma...
A37 - The character hits the Sun or one of several suns with a weapon or tries to do so. ...
A37a - A small animal (marmot, rabbit, mole, toad, frog, earthworm) or a person who eventually becomes such...
A37b - A small animal (groundhog, rabbit, mole, frog) or a person who eventually turns into such an animal ...
A37c - Person is going to hit the celestial body or deity but his arrow hits an obstacle that screens his a...
A38 - The sun falls into a snare, a trap, and is tied by a rope. ...
A38a - The sun is caught by a noose of a woman's pubic hair. See motif A38. ...
A38b - The sun falls into a trap, a snare. Only a mouse or other small animal can gnaw through a snare and ...
A38c - The sun exchanges or spoils a cape made of animal or bird skins from a boy or girl. As a result, a b...
A38d - Because the Sun has caused damage to the character (spoiled, burned his cape, fur on his skin, etc.)...
A39 - Suns are born and die, and every day something new comes to heaven. ...
A39a - Each of the calendar segments (usually months) that make up the year appears to be a special object ...
A40 - Toad or Frog is the wife (or one of the wives) of the Sun or the Month. Traditions in italics are in...
A41 - Two characters have children (siblings, mothers). One suggests that these children (mothers) be kill...
A42 - The character comes to the Sun, tries to play his role, but intentionally or unwittingly breaks the ...
A42a - Having risen to the sky, the character fails to play the role of the sun and as a result falls or is...
A43 - month or character currently visible on the moon hurries up to the sky. He is missing one leg or sho...
A43a - The character runs away in a hurry and undergoes a metamorphosis, turning into a bird or going up to...
A44 - character fleeing from a chase, offended or suffering on earth asks the Month (Moon) to take him hom...
A45 - A person teases, insults the moon and is punished as a result. ...
A46 - The sun and moon (Rigveda: only the sun) come from or are associated with the eyes of an anthropomor...
A46a - The Sun and Moon (Rig-Veda: the Sun only) are associated with eyes of an anthropomorphic being (the ...
A47 - The sun is born or arises from an egg. ...
B1 - At the beginning of time, two characters compete to create land and/or humans. One is often or becom...
B1a - Anthropomorphic characters agree to divide the tiers of the universe - heaven, earth and the lower w...
B1b - Two female ancestors are involved in the creation process. The actions of one are good, the other is...
B1c - two creators agree that the eldest of them (the main creator) will be the one whose object is in a c...
B1d - Two characters make up the world, one works poorly, the other works well, so parts of the universe (...
B1e - Extracting land from the ocean floor or from the lower world, creating a person from some material, ...
B1f - Two brothers (companions) live In the epoch of the creation. One of them is smart and selfconfident,...
B1g - Four travelling brothers transform the world, annihilating monsters, changig the habits and appearan...
B2a - Earth, a female character (alone or along with a male character), is considered a female creature or...
B2b - The earth feeds on people who are buried there. See B2A motif. ...
B2c - Land in general, landscape elements, or fertile soil arise from the human body and/or land (s) are b...
B2d - Sky (Sun, Thunder, Wind living in the sky) is considered a man and marries a woman Earth; Sky is com...
B2e - Earth or the world as a whole is a male character (alone or along with a female character). ...
B2f - A character can't bury a deceased person without knowing how to do it or finding a place to bury. ...
B2f1 - (While the earth is still absent or liquid), a bird buries its relative in its own head that usually...
B2f2 - The character wears the body of the deceased for a long time, unable to bury it or not knowing how t...
B2g - chameleon walked on the ground before it had hardened. ...
B3 - At first, the land is soft, it is a swamp. ...
B3a - Water is the original element, the dry earth appears later...
B3b - Original earth was small and later increased in size or the fertile soil grew from a small amount of...
B3c - When creating land, the creator goes to rest, the antagonist tries to drown it, drags it to the edge...
B3d - earth is retrieved by a worm, it arises from the worm's excrement, extracted from the worm. ...
B3e - At first, there is only air and water below the sky, or (rarely) a swamp, an undefined abyss. The ch...
B4 - Islands or mainland are caught in the ocean, pulled by a rope. ...
B4a - Fish hit the ground, breaking off islands from the main land mass. ...
B5a - At the beginning of time, female and male characters meet each other and enter into dialogue with ea...
B5b - A woman (alone or with her companion) creates or gives birth not only to people, but also to various...
B5c - There's an old woman and a young woman at the beginning of time A young woman miraculously conceives...
B6 - The first or only remaining man and woman move towards each other, walking around a mountain, pole, ...
B6a - first-ancestor woman gives birth to several eggs. One or two of them lie unchanged for a long time, ...
B7a - Someone owns water or a drink. Another character swallows the hidden, runs away and spits out the hi...
B7b - sea (flood, river) flows out of a small container. ...
B7c - Fresh water, which its sole owner hides in a vessel or pond, is sprayed all over the world. ...
B7d - Water pours out of a broken bone, flooding the ground. ...
B8 - The frog hides the water (usually drinks the lake, the river). Thanks to another character, water re...
B9 - The tree trunk contains a huge amount of water or the tree turns into water. ...
B10 - The character drinks the lake or all the water in the world, or the only water in his stomach. They ...
B11a - mammoth, presented as an underground fish-like creature, creates a rugged terrain on undried land an...
B12 - The riverbed follows the path of a snake, fish, dragon, crab; the river arises from parts of the sna...
B13a - stream of water (with a predator in the water) follows the character who is trying to escape from it...
B14 - The character creates rapids on the river. ...
B15 - The river flows out of the female body. ...
B16a - The sea is formed from urine or blood. ...
B16b - sea is salty because the wolverine or fox swam in it or urinated in it. ...
B16c - The magic mill was ordered to grind salt, but was not commanded to stop. The mill sinks in the sea, ...
B17 - Darkness is a special object that can be carried and transferred (usually brought from the original ...
B18 - Day light (also warmth, the sun, the moon) is kept as a particular object in a container, under a co...
B19 - Until night fell, people couldn't make love in peace. ...
B20 - People go up to heaven to hunt, fish, or collect honey; don't give honey, fish, or good meat to the ...
B21 - People go up the tree to hunt, fish, or collect honey. The tree has fallen down, people fall down an...
B22 - character left under the tree is offended by those who climb the tree up (they usually don't share f...
B22a - Boys eat fruit when they climb a tree, refuse to plant the tapiru, who tries to kill the boys. ...
B23 - The Divine forbids making a fire for cooking and punishes those who violate the ban. ...
B24 - People who come into conflict or break the ban turn into wild boars or bakers. ...
B24a - After a character surrounds a group of people with a ring of feathers or throws feathers into their ...
B25 - Characters who climb a tree or climb up a vine and then fall turn into wild pigs or other commercial...
B26 - The person following wild animals (temporarily) becomes one of them or their owner, or lives with an...
B27 - Characters think about which object or creature are best for them to become, and when they make a ch...
B27a - Persons ponders over what object, feature, or creature it would be appropriate for them to turn. Whe...
B27b - Persons ponders over what object, feature, or creature it would be appropriate for them to turn. Whe...
B28 - Traveling from one area to another, the character consistently turns people into birds and animals, ...
B28a - A character nailed to the ground with a rod has been moved to the edge of the world and is associate...
B28b - The inhabitants of the area where the hero finds himself are afraid of creatures that are tools, ute...
B28c - Lice grab a person and drag him into the sea. ...
B28d - Without understanding who is in front of them, the characters respond to the wandering Transformer t...
B28d1 - Without understanding who is in front of him, the man promises to kill the Transformer. He turns his...
B28e - month (alone or together with the Sun) turns the original “wrong” world into the one in which pe...
B29 - People turn into animals, birds or stones, living beings acquire their current characteristics at a ...
B30a - Fish comes from the remains of a murdered person or creature. At first, it is concentrated in one pl...
B30b - Animals arise from the remains of a murdered person. ...
B31 - A woman (usually after a conflict with a man or remaining alone) or a man and a woman (married coupl...
B32 - As a result of conflict with husbands, women turn into fish. ...
B32a - Enemies of a person who rides a ship turn into seals or dolphins...
B33 - There is a female character who embodies the wind or is considered the mother or mistress of the win...
B33a - Having decided that it is (or that it will soon be) warm, the character believes that winter is over...
B33a1 - A person (animal, bird) teases, insults March or another calendar month and is punished as a result....
B33b - On the border between winter and spring, a bird (usually a thrush) flies prematurely into the cold a...
B33c - A month on the border of winter and spring (usually March) takes (rarely: buys, steals) from the nei...
B33d - old woman embodies winter, is associated with snow, and/or on the border of winter and spring (autum...
B33d1 - In folk narratives days of week (usually Friday and Wednesday) are (female) persons of more or less ...
B33e - The last cold month regrets that it did not come sooner or that it is too short. In that case, he wo...
B33e1 - The cold, which is never worse, is said to freeze the embryo in the womb. ...
B33f - A character performs actions that determine the change in dark and daylight hours. It's always about...
B33f1 - By performing certain actions, the (old) woman determines the daily cycle. ...
B33f2 - At night, the fire fades away, and the hero goes in search of it. On his way, he ties up an old woma...
B33g - Horsemen or horses represent stars or different periods of the day. ...
B33h - The male Sun has the mother who shares with him his dwelling place...
B34 - After the vessel is opened at night, a person caught in darkness turns into a bird or animal. ...
B35 - The bear hurriedly puts his left moccasin on his right leg and vice versa, so the clubfoot. ...
B35a - The tree asks him not to cut down, fulfills the person's wishes. When they go beyond reason, a tree ...
B36 - The integrity of a creature (rarely: an object) is broken. As a result, various living beings acquir...
B36a - Birds or fish obtain their colors after smearing themselves with liquids extracted from the body of ...
B36b - Birds find their voices by pecking a large reptile, smeared in liquids that have leaked out of its b...
B36c - Animals get meat, fat, melted from a creature or appeared differently. Some got a lot, others stayed...
B37 - The character paints two or more different birds (less often fish), they paint each other, smear in ...
B38 - The character paints birds or animals, or they paint each other. This is not happening as intended. ...
B38a - The two birds agree to paint each other. One of them (usually due to her inappropriate behavior) doe...
B38b - Raven and Loon paint each other. ...
B38c - The character kicks a loon or other waterfowl. Since then, she has a flattened tail and has difficul...
B38d - Raven and the Owl paint each other. ...
B38e - bird with white or bright plumage refuses to marry a bird with dark plumage after learning that the ...
B39 - insect or character who later becomes an insect knows where food (cultivated plants) or water is loc...
B40 - hare or rabbit is a false deer, a former deer, a deer's brother, a former or failed horn owner, its ...
B40a - Today, a hornless animal loses its horns or is deprived of the opportunity to obtain them. See motif...
B40b - The horse changes with the Cow, gives off horns and/or gets teeth. ...
B41 - Due to the fact that the dog disseminated some information, argued with the owners, spoke at the wro...
B41a - The dog or other domestic animal speaks aloud about those details of its masters' life that they wou...
B42 - Hunters, their dogs, and animals running away or killed can be seen in the sky in the form of stars ...
B42a - Hunters drive a bear across the sky and kill them in August-October. The bear's blood or fat falls t...
B42b - In the cosmic hunt tale the game pursued by the hunters is an ungulate (elk, deer, mountain sheep, e...
B42c - In the space hunt plot, the object of persecution is a bear. See B42 and B42P motifs. ...
B42d - In the space hunt plot, the object of persecution is a bear. See motif B42. ...
B42e - In the space hunt plot, the object of persecution is Nanda (Rhea americana, a large flightless bird)...
B42f - The Big Dipper (whole or just a bucket) is identified with a large ungulates (moose, deer, mountain ...
B42g - Ursus major (seven stars or only four stars of a dipper) is identified with the game animal or anmia...
B42h - Orion's belt is game; another star or group of stars within or outside Orion is a hunter. ...
B42h1 - In the plot of space hunting, one of the astral objects is identified with an arrow or bullet, empha...
B42i - Cassiopeia is associated with deer or moose. ...
B42k - In stories about space hunting, the object of persecution or hunters is identified with the Pleiades...
B42l - stars of the Big Dipper bucket handle are hunters, the bucket itself is a bear, an elk, or a meat ba...
B42m - One of the sky hunters (the second star of the Big Dipper bucket handle) carries a bowler hat (a wea...
B42m1 - Each of the three (rarely: four) hunters who chase moose and turn into stars is of a special nationa...
B42m2 - Big Dipper bucket handle stars are three hunters who chase animals. Each has a special character (on...
B42mn - Only one character (not a few) drives across the sky a beast (an elk or a bear) associated with one ...
B42n - Orion constellation is identified with a man, usually a giant, warrior, hunter. ...
B42o - A particular constellation appears to be a person who has been hit on the back or injured in the bac...
B42o1 - The Big Dipper is identified with a fishing marten (fisher, <i>mustela</i> <i>pennati</i>). ...
B42p - The Big Dipper is identified with the bear. ...
B42q - The Big Bear is a chariot, a wagon. ...
B42r - Three stars of the Belt of Orion are three persons or animals who pursue each other...
B42s - The Big Dipper or the North Star is a small animal (ermine, marten, forest marmot) or anthropomorphi...
B42t - All seven stars of the Ursa Major (not just the bucket stars) are considered to be the figure of an ...
B43 - Parts of the body of the primeval person or creature are transformed into different elements of the ...
B43a - The character is made from many materials or objects. ...
B44a - Characters argue about the number of discrete units of time that determine the length of a certain p...
B44b - The number and/or nature of the alternation of fingers, claws, feathers, coats, stripes on animal sk...
B44c - The characters argue about whether the earth is dark or light, cold or warm. See motif B44. ...
B44d - Night and day alternate because the dead animal was black and white, spotted. ...
B44e - First ancestors (usually birds or animals) argue with each other about the length of time in a calen...
B44f - In a debate about whether the world should be light, the fox is on the side of the world (almost alw...
B44f1 - In a debate about whether the world should be light (warm), the bear is on the side of darkness (and...
B45 - The appearance of a warm (bright, satisfying) or cold (hungry, dark) time is associated with the mar...
B45b - A bull or cow is the epitome of cold, the reason why winter is cold. ...
B46 - Each of the seven stars of the Ursa Major is an adult male. ...
B46a - One of the stars of the Pleiades was separated from the others (usually kidnapped by the stars of th...
B46a1 - The stars of the Ursa Major are thieves or robbers. ...
B46b - Each of the seven main stars of Ursa Major is a separate female character. {Included in the online d...
B46c - Each of the Ursa Major stars is a separate character (humans or animals). ...
B46d - Men, each superior to others in a particular art, turn into stars. ...
B47 - Pleiades or another group of stars have once appeared or are regularly the cause of extreme cold. (T...
B47a - A cow steps on the Pleiades stars on earth, which were demonic creatures. Some of the stars slipped ...
B48 - Harmless and herbivores were or could become dangerous predators. ...
B48a - Animals, birds, or fish have internal organs or muscles that were originally parts of the body of ot...
B48b - The animals now being hunted contain a piece of human flesh left over from their anthropomorphic app...
B48c - In the head of a pike there are (visible) tools that people use. ...
B48d - People or objects swallowed by a pike become part of its body, usually turning into bones in the pik...
B49 - Animals of a certain species (Toraj has a human) do not hear or understand instructions or questions...
B49a - Mighty animals could have many young, but now they only give birth to one in a few years. ...
B49b - Initially cow had more teats than now...
B50 - A dangerous character wants to ask a bloodsucker insect where it drank blood or whose blood (flesh) ...
B51 - A blood-sucking insect does not admit to the thunder that it drank people's blood. See motif B50. ...
B51a - snake is the enemy of the swallow (usually because the swallow prevents the snake from destroying pe...
B52a - Flying above the world, a bird (usually a vulture) flaps its wings to dry the ground after a flood o...
B52b - The character regurgitates the hidden (usually in his mouth) land, thereby creating mountains, swamp...
B52c - When created, the earth and sky were of different sizes. The earth was squeezed, so mountains appear...
B53 - character's huge genitals are cut off (usually cut to pieces), discarded, turning into snakes or oth...
B54 - Chips, branches or pieces of bark that fall or are thrown into the water turn into fish and aquatic ...
B55 - Fish grow on tree branches or tree leaves turn into fish. ...
B56 - crocodile/Cayman is left without a tongue, swallowing or losing the fire (which it used to know); so...
B57 - Blood from a killed or injured person or animal turns red on the sky or vegetation (the origin of da...
B57a - Seeing the sky covered, the character realizes that another person's blood has been shed, or that an...
B58 - After the first ancestors steal the original fire, a partrige-sized forest bird (Penelope sp.; Anhim...
B59 - A group of people (usually children, siblings) play, dance, rise to the sky and turn into the Pleiad...
B60 - Children come into conflict with their parents over food, clothing, attention claimed and denied by ...
B61 - mole had to hold the fallen sky and the sun. Usually, since then, his paw (arm) has been sprained ba...
B62 - A person believes that vultures live better than humans, changing their appearance with a vulture. A...
B63 - Kids lie to their mothers like they're working in the fields. When the deception is discovered, they...
B64 - bones in the body of fish are the result of a fight, battle, military expedition; these are arrows p...
B64a - Fish and poultry fight (usually by firing arrows at each other). Since then, many small bones and/or...
B64b - Two types of fish fire arrows at each other. Since then, there have been many small bones in the fis...
B64c - Fish, along with other terrestrial inhabitants, are at war against the inhabitants of the sky. When ...
B64d - Certain bones in the body of living beings (usually birds and fish) are arrows fired at them. ...
B65 - Out of mischief, the character imitates other human animals. As a result, his womb is ripped apart, ...
B66 - Characters climb to the sky on a rope or chain of arrows; falling to the ground, it turns into fores...
B67 - A fallen tree and (or) a stump from it turn into a mountain (mountain range) or rocks. (Usually, fru...
B68 - The huge hazel grouse became small - usually torn to pieces that turned into current hazel grouses. ...
B68a - Birds quarrel and claiming high status cripples the weak. For this, others tell her to carry the inj...
B68b - (Animal) person who tried to scare the God (people) with his/its, behavior, strange look or sudden a...
B69 - Wanting to thank or punish a small rodent (chipmunk, groundhog, squirrel), the character makes him s...
B69a - A chipmunk or similar animal (weasel, pika) argues with another animal character (bear, elk, puma, s...
B69b - Wanting to thank or punish the frog, the character runs his hand or paw down its back, and since the...
B70 - A person beats hares, foxes, and other small animals (one or many) that are defenseless (usually loc...
B71 - The Northern Lights are people who play, dance, sit by the fire, fight or run around with torches. ...
B72 - Since children do not give water to their mother, she turns into a bird (usually a cuckoo) and flies...
B72a - The mother (stepmother, foster father) does not give food to the girl or (less commonly) the boy. Th...
B72b - A girl (rarely a boy) turns into a bird and flies away after her mother (father, teacher) does not g...
B72c - Children run after their mother, injure themselves, their blood stains plants, the earth, and the ev...
B72d - A woman makes her own wings (beak, tail) from clothing accessories and turns into a bird or flying s...
B73 - The character turns into a cuckoo. This happens so fast that one leg remains unbraided or one braid ...
B73a - girl (a boy, a girl with a brother; two little brothers) searches for a missing horse, cow, sheep an...
B73b - Two teenagers or young people look for each other, resonate (or one of them calls the other): a girl...
B74 - capercaillie or grouse's eyes turned red with tears. ...
B74a - The character is sewn red rags (threads, eyelids red) to his eyes or he does it himself. He sees eve...
B74b - owl is forced to part with the moon and now screams when it sees the moon. It is usually told how th...
B75a - You can still hear the voice of a character who lived in the era of creation (most often a woman who...
B75b - creaking or crackling of trees is the voice of a transformed character. ...
B75b1 - The character shoves his mother-in-law or wife into the hollow, she turns into a creak of trees or a...
B75c - The sound of the surf or water on the rapids has been heard since creation. ...
B75d - The sound of leaves or grass shaken by the wind has been heard since creation. ...
B76 - sea waves instantly petrified, forming a land with mountain ranges on it. ...
B77 - The sky was near the ground, then it rose. ...
B77a - One or more anthropomorphic characters move the sky away from the ground. See motif B77. ...
B77b - The sky moved away and/or people's connection with the deity ceased after the sky or heavenly deity ...
B77b1 - The sky moved away and/or people's connection with the deity ceased after the sky or heavenly deity ...
B77b2 - The sky moved away and/or people's connection with the deity ceased after the sky or heavenly deity ...
B77c - snake-shaped creature pushes the sky away from the ground. See motif B77. ...
B78 - When a character shakes off (or shakes clothes, plucks birds, etc.), snow falls from his hair, feath...
B79 - In the oceans or in the world's abyss, the earth, sky, stars, and creator gods emerge from eggs (egg...
B79a - At the beginning of time, a bird flies, lays an egg or eggs, from which various objects or creatures...
B79a1 - At the beginning of time, a bird flies and throws pieces of firmament into the water, from which the...
B80 - The creation process involves measuring the size of the earth or the world as a whole. ...
B81 - The creator and his opponent are considering whether to give the dog the ability to shoot (with a bo...
B82 - raven (less commonly another vulture bird, or another now black bird the size of a crow) was first w...
B83 - The character tries to pick up a small object or creature that, or that turns out to be gigantic and...
B84 - After a demonic person (usually a woman chasing a hero) dies, his flesh turns into objects found on ...
B85 - The wind blows too much and is being forced to calm down. ...
B85a - The wind is not blowing properly, people can't hunt or fish. After the hero defeats the Wind, it bec...
B85b - The wind has been or is in a small container, released from it or leaves it from time to time. ...
B86 - To get to the sky (moon, star, sun), people build a staircase or tower consisting of separate module...
B87 - Alcor (the faint star next to the second star of the Big Dipper bucket handle) stands out as a separ...
B87a - Alcor (the dim star next to the second star of the Big Dipper bucket handle) is a dog. ...
B87b - The Big Bear is a wagon in which a wolf or bear is harnessed. Usually, the shape of the bucket handl...
B87c - Alcor (the weak star next to the second star of the Big Dipper bucket handle) is a rider and driver....
B88 - All of a man's children die. He asks God to explain why he suffers so much. ...
B89 - owl (Owl) was the main bird, pretended to be or did not perform well in choosing the head of birds; ...
B90 - There is an anthropomorphic patron, owner, or mistress of wolves; he usually gives instructions to w...
B91 - The snail had (sharpest) eyes. The other character borrows them and doesn't give them back. ...
B91a - A blind character asks another to lend his eyes or change eyes, and leaves his eyes to himself. ...
B92 - character who has crumbled into small pieces, whose body is firm, turns into flints or other hard st...
B93 - Once a year or every few years, celestials or messengers of the deity seen among the stars meet. ...
B93a - Once a year, birds form a bridge across a heavenly river from their bodies. Usually, the feathers on...
B94 - Trees (and animals) used to talk, asking them not to cut or kill them. ...
B95 - The appearance of the sphincter or buttocks is due to the fact that a character burned his ass. ...
B96 - chasing humans, a monstrous creature falls into the water, turns into a commercial fish or a commerc...
B97 - The character rewards (rarely punishes) a bird living by the water, determining its current appearan...
B97a - strip of light or dark feathers (rarely: wool) on the neck of a bird (animal) is its necklace (handk...
B98 - Bat tries to join animals and birds, or is excluded from both. ...
B98a - bat becomes an outcast from other creatures (usually after trying to join animals or birds). ...
B98b - The Bat comes into conflict with other creatures over someone's death or funeral. ...
B98c - The heavenly deity could cure the bat's mother or child, but failed to do so, and they died. ...
B99 - person left on a tree turns into an insect nest. ...
B100 - In the past or in a distant country, sleep was not known; a character embodies or owns a dream; slee...
B101 - When angry with a birch tree, the character hits or cuts it, the stripes on the bark are still there...
B102 - Clouds are formed from smoke rising from the ground. ...
B102a - Clouds are associated with cattle, especially in cows (and rain is their milk). ...
B103 - The character thinks that since dogwood blooms earlier than other fruit trees, its fruits will ripen...
B104 - A guest came, the owner hid the chicken, and when he wanted to eat it, it turned out that it turned ...
B104a - The son was going to eat meat (chicken). At this time, the father came and, in order not to share wi...
B104b - A woman does not want to share bread with God who came to her in guise of a poor man and is transfor...
B105 - father-in-law or mother-in-law finds her daughter-in-law in a position she is ashamed of (simple-hai...
B106 - First the heavenly rooster sings, only then the earthly rooster sings. ...
B107 - During a (world) fire, the oyster burns, so the oyster shells are black. ...
B108 - anthropomorphic character broken into pieces turns into snow. ...
B109 - A person acquires hair and becomes a bear (the origin of bears). ...
B109a - Originally, a (human-) bear lived in the sky, then descended to earth (and became a bear). ...
B110 - A character who is dragged on the ground or who is running falls apart or hits the ground with diffe...
B110a - A character who is dragged on the ground or falls from the sky turns into atmospheric phenomena. ...
B111 - Bees or wasps fly out of the corpse or body of a large animal (lion, bull) (usually the episode expl...
B112 - The character calls to help do the work (usually transporting property or provisions across the rive...
B113 - Due to certain events from the time of creation, women have a cold ass, while men have knees (or vic...
B114 - A woman or man (usually old people) becomes anteaters (the origin of anteaters). ...
B115 - Conifers and some other trees and shrubs (shrubs) became evergreen after they were accidentally spil...
B115a - Angry at the carpenters, the character (St. Peter) asks another (Christ) to make knots in wood or br...
B116 - The first book (writing, important document) is eaten by an animal or person. (In terms of European ...
B116a - A person or animal eats a sacred book or its remnants. During the ritual, this knowledge is actualiz...
B116b - A book containing sacred knowledge ends up in the water at a crossing or otherwise gets wet. After t...
B116c - In the past, people had writing and knowledge, but they were lost or the people missed the opportuni...
B117 - document issued to animals (usually dogs) was lost due to the cat's fault (swallowed by a cat, burne...
B118 - Person who was unable to ascend to the sky or had returned from the sky to the earth turned into the...
B119 - A woman of an inhuman nature agrees to live with a man, but leaves him after learning about his real...
B120 - There are creatures that sleep in the winter and have frozen snot hanging from their noses. (The mot...
B121 - A small bird carries pebbles and sticks while trying to cover the sea. ...
B122 - Birds (usually cranes/storks or geese) take children to another world or bring them from there. ...
B123 - A fly sits on the chest of the crucified Jesus. Stalkers who intend to drive a nail into the heart d...
B124 - Since a piece of flesh was torn off from somebody’s foot, there is a depression beteen toes and he...
B125 - During the time of creation particular species of animals (rare: plants) exchanged certain organs or...
B125a - The nightingale (more rare somebody else) borrows the blindwoms’s eye and does not return them, th...
B125b - Going to the feast, party, etc., animal person borrows from another one a part of the body that must...
C1 - In the past, there has been or will be a catastrophic shift in the layers of the universe. Among the...
C2 - The inhabitants of the middle world are (partly) destroyed (or will be destroyed) once by fire or dr...
C2a - Two characters meet a woodpecker and receive an object from him, which causes the ground to ignite. ...
C2b - The Sun and the Month fall into a fire. The strong and intelligent Sun is saved, the weak and stupid...
C3 - serpent (eel, frog) saved Noah's ark by plugging a hole in it with its body. ...
C4 - During a flood or at the beginning of time, fruits, seeds, or other objects fall into the water one ...
C5a - bird, various birds, or people who then turn into birds are sent to explore the earth (whether it is...
C5b - After a global catastrophe or when creating land, animals run around, making the earth big, reportin...
C6 - Characters dive to the bottom to get an item. ...
C6a - The desired object is brought from the bottom (or from the lower world) or destroyed by a turtle, to...
C6b - The desired object comes from the bottom of a muskrat, beaver or nutria. See motive C6. ...
C6c - A bird brings the desired object from the bottom or dives to the bottom. See motive C6. ...
C6c1 - Two or more different birds (often a loon and a duck) dive successively to get the ground from the b...
C6d - Land (land) is formed from a small amount of solid matter (silt, sand, clay, mud) that characters ex...
C6e - crustacean pulls the earth from under the water or from the lower world. ...
C6f - The characters are trying to get a submerged living creature or part of its body from under the wate...
C6g - earth is brought from the bottom and/or scattered across the water by a boar. See motive C6. ...
C6h - insect brings the earth (from the bottom of the sea or from somewhere far away). ...
C6i - zoomorphic character returns from the lower world, smeared with mud. It is shaken off or dirt is scr...
C6j - The acquiring of the earth from the sea bottom or from the lower world, the creation of humans and a...
C7 - Initially or after a flood, an earthen or stone barrier, the body of a character or creature prevent...
C8 - At the beginning of time or after the death of other people, brother and sister (mother and son, fat...
C8a - Being alone and without other partners, brother and sister make it possible to marry each other by t...
C8a1 - Being alone and without other marrying partners, brother and sister make it possible to marry each o...
C8a2 - lion (often a stone lion) helps survive the flood. ...
C8b - Brother and sister (or mother and son) find themselves alone, without marital partners. Both of them...
C8c - After a global catastrophe, at the beginning of time, or when a new land is settled, a woman and her...
C9a - During a flood or when crossing a river those people who drown (or those who survive) turn into toad...
C10 - During a flood, some birds or animals escape on a mountain, in a tree, in a boat, or by clinging to ...
C10a - During the flood, some birds escape by clinging to the sky with their beaks. Wed. A2211.7 (“In a f...
C11 - A magically powerful father destroys people (all or many) who have hurt or harmed his son. ...
C12a - dog warns of an impending global flood or fire, advises what to do. ...
C12b - All people or individual ethnic groups, families are considered descendants of a dog (with which a m...
C13 - During or before the onset of a global catastrophe (flood, darkness) or (surui) at night, utensils a...
C14 - During or before a global catastrophe (flood, darkness), animals or monsters attack people. ...
C15 - A monstrous jaguar (puma) is locked in a cave or tree trunk. ...
C16 - In addition to human desire, processed skins, tools, and (meat) food (again) turn into (those) anima...
C16a - An offended owner of animals or fish takes them away and food supplies. See H32A motif. ...
C17 - men of the ancestral community kill most people and/or themselves at the stake or in a fire pit. ...
C18 - A character owns, embodies, or steals values; prevents other people from using them. In order to obt...
C18a - The hidden sun lures the rooster. ...
C19 - first ancestors find the sun (daylight) that was missing, hidden, or stolen. See motive C18. For sta...
C19a - The character (except Quileut: Raven) turns into a child, asks for and receives heavenly bodies to p...
C22 - During a severe drought or global fire, birds and animals are sent to thunders living on the edge of...
C23 - growth or fall of a giant tree determines the state of the sky with its stars (the tree blocks the s...
C24 - Someone gnaws or cuts the support of heaven or earth; some creatures try to break the barrier that s...
C25a - In the sky, on the moon, somewhere outside our world, a character (usually an old woman) is making s...
C25b - In the sky, on the moon (rarely in the sun), somewhere outside our world, a character is spinning, w...
C25c - A change in the configuration of a constellation (usually Ursa Major) or its disappearance from the ...
C26 - Monsters are ready to invade our world from another, but a powerful character protects people from i...
C27 - A monster breaks the ice on a river or lake. Usually people walk on ice, see a protruding horn (fin)...
C28 - A demonic character takes possession of a value without which another character (and humans) will di...
C29 - People (God) learn a secret by overhearing (peeking) a character talking to himself or relatives (or...
C30a - A person borrows money on the condition that if he does not return by a certain date, he will have t...
C30b - In response to claims from an animal or spirit, a person suggests that he remove its traces from the...
C30c - man promises to drink the sea, but at the last moment he says that his opponent must first separate ...
C30d - Person gives his permission to pollute his place with excrements but only on condition that not a dr...
C31 - hedgehog is wiser or smarter than all gods and animals; he has knowledge that is vital to human exis...
C31a - According to an agreement or promise, the owner (mistress) of the lower world receives or should rec...
C31b - owl is smarter and wiser than other living beings. ...
C31c - bat is smarter and wiser than other living beings. ...
C32 - Demonic characters will make a ship out of nail scraps. ...
C32c - Nails (and hair) are of particular importance to a person's fate, soul, or the world as a whole. (Co...
C33 - The God-fighter has been chained to a rock or pole for centuries. ...
C33a - For a year, someone tries to cut or break the chain or rope that holds him or another character. On ...
C33a1 - Every day a predator bird comes to peck inner organs of the enchained man. During the day the organs...
C33b - The death of people of the first race is associated with the appearance of wind ...
C34 - The flood begins after people kill (offend, maim) a (usually aquatic) creature. ...
C34a - supernatural character goes fishing with people or lives on the sand by the river; he is buried in t...
C35 - It becomes known that if characters who represent natural phenomena and parts of the universe get ma...
C35a - zoomorphic character gives wise advice regarding the state of the Sun. The Council has been accepted...
C35b - A frog (toad) prevents more than one sun from shining in the sky. ...
C36 - gods and their powerful opponents face a decisive battle that changes the world's destinies. See Bra...
C37 - sloth causes a global catastrophe or saves people from it. ...
C38 - Characters from the time of creation say that real people are coming soon, so we need to do this and...
C39 - When the sky split or partially collapsed, it was repaired. ...
C39a - A hole in the sky or a crack in the ground has been covered with a piece of ice, so it's cold in the...
C40 - At first, stones fell from the sky and crushed people. ...
C41 - At first, the sky doesn't have a specific color. After a character hangs cloth on him or does other ...
D1 - A woman (usually an elderly woman) is the epitome of fire, alone or along with her husband, the mast...
D1a - A girl marries a man whose mother is fire. ...
D1a1 - For the fact that a woman offended the fire, its mistress takes her child away from her. ...
D1a2 - The house of the person who insulted the fire burns down, but the property or the child of another p...
D1a3 - A man marries a woman who is fire. She is offended, or her husband does not like her, her marriage f...
D1a4 - Two fires from different dwellings meet each other and chat...
D1b - A man is the master or embodiment of fire (alone or along with a fire woman). ...
D2 - A woman gives birth to a son who is very hot. ...
D2a - A woman gives birth to a son who is the embodiment of fire or sun, and dies from burns. ...
D4a - The fire was stolen from the original owner, returned to people from the kidnapper, or (the motive f...
D4a1 - Person who incarnates or owns the fire hides himself or herself or is hidden. To return or to get he...
D4aa - Night butterflies are trying to carry away the fire that humans own. ...
D4b - who steal or ask for fire and/or people who receive fire are punished by the deity. ...
D4c - The characters get the warmer months from its original owners. ...
D4c1 - Animal people are coming to steal summer from its owners. One of the moose or caribou who comes in t...
D4d - opossum makes fire for humans. See D4A motif. ...
D4e - The thief or giver of fire, light, or sun is a coyote or fox (marked in square brackets). See motive...
D4e1 - The thief or giver of fire, light or sun is a dog. See motive 4A. ...
D4f - Once in a fire, a beaver (in North America) or a fish (in South America) scatters and/or carries fir...
D4g - hummingbird kidnaps, finds, or spreads fire. See D4A motif. ...
D4h - The swallow makes fire for people. See D4A motif. ...
D4h1 - A small songbird (robin, queen, wren) makes fire for people. ...
D4i - beaver makes fire for humans. See D4A motif. ...
D4j - A kidnapper, kidnapper, or fireman is a rabbit, hare, or (ofie) guinea pig. See D4A motif. ...
D4k - A deer makes fire for humans. See D4A motif. ...
D4l - The first fire is brought to earth from heaven; the first ancestors go to heaven, bringing fire or w...
D4m - The kidnapper comes to the owners of fire or light. They're feasting or dancing. He joins them, take...
D4n - A boy or (by a kutene) woman cries, demanding the missing element - summer, fire, rain. See D4A moti...
D4o - To steal fire from its owner, the character pretends to be wet, chilled, and after receiving permiss...
D4p - parrot makes fire for humans. See D4A motif. Australian data is not taken into account, as the gener...
D4q - fly rubs its paws and produces fire. ...
D5 - The original owner or inventor (but not embodiment) of fire is a female character. ...
D5a - The first fire is hidden in a woman's genitals or anus. See motive D5. ...
D6a - Crocodile/Cayman is the temporary or original owner of fire or lightning. ...
D6b - The burned person turns into a crocodile/caiman. ...
D7 - frog or toad owns the first fire, steals it from the original owner, tries to extinguish it or save ...
D7a - Spider possesses the fire or steals it from original owner (texts in which spider acts together with...
D8 - The first fire (or summer) was stolen from a large predator - a lion or leopard in Africa, a tiger i...
D9 - raven or other large dark-colored feathered vulture is the owner, incarnation, spouse, earner or thi...
D10 - A couple of people are the embodiment of a tool for making fire. ...
D11 - Before fire became known, food was cooked by warming it with your body (usually under your arm); the...
D12 - People in the past, or people from a faraway country, cooked in the sun; or the fire owner lies that...
D12a - People use the heat of the sun to cook because they are close to its source. ...
D13c - Two companions or brothers live together. The elder has a wife he hides. To discover her, the younge...
D13d - One character tries to make him laugh to find another hiding somewhere in the house. ...
D13e - Hunters die because they laughed at a killed (and animated) animal. ...
D13f - Laughter causes fire or sun to appear or spread. Usually, the owner of a fire or sun loses it after ...
D13g - When a character starts laughing, people see his or her scary mouth (lots of teeth, a man on his tee...
D13h - A person who enters the world of the dead should not laugh. ...
D13hh - When visiting another world, a person should not laugh or be surprised to see strange things. The pe...
D13i - The character makes the audience laugh to identify the deceiver and thief by a broken tooth. He laug...
D13i1 - The character's features can be determined by his teeth. Laughing and showing his teeth, the charact...
E1a - The first people are made of fragile materials (clay, wax, fire, honey, etc.) and are not viable. ...
E1a1 - deity or ancestor sculpts people from clay. Some of the figures are wet, so there are cripples among...
E1b - Certain person is made of improper material and proves to be short-lived or unfit for fulfilling his...
E1b1 - A person who marries an unusual girl is warned that she should not do a specific job or eat certain ...
E1c - A person is made from human excrement or (inupiate) from cadal. ...
E1d - The (first) boat is made of obviously unusable material. ...
E1e - The son of the first human couple first looks like a small plant that grew out of the ground of a st...
E2 - When creating people, the creator does not immediately achieve perfection. The first versions of the...
E3 - After the destruction of the previous world, new people (rarely: new land) are made from the remains...
E4 - From cuticles or dirt that has come off the skin, the character creates land, people, or other creat...
E5 - God makes man out of clay. He must wait until it dries, but tries to get up earlier. ...
E5a - The first people (either only the first men or the first women) are not created by the demiurge, but...
E5aa - The first people grew out of the ground like trees, grass, mushrooms. ...
E5b - The first person or first human couple comes out of the ground or from a small object on its surface...
E5c - The first humans or ancestor deities descend to earth from heaven. ...
E5d - The first people to be on the ground and concentrated within a confined space are threatened by a pr...
E5e - People or animals come out of the ground or come down from the sky. The two-headed next one gets stu...
E6 - When a woman of childbearing age (she has her period, has a miscarriage, is pregnant, has a baby, or...
E6a - People go to their current habitat through a (ice-covered) reservoir, some remain on the other side ...
E7 - The path from one part of the world to another is through a narrow opening. The character gets stuck...
E8 - The first people or the first ancestor's wife are made of wood. ...
E8a - Coconuts picked from a tree or fallen to the ground, or (rarely) leaves, turn into women or people i...
E9 - The character (usually a woman) hides in the form (inside) of an animal (bird, plant, object) that i...
E9a - A man marries a fox woman. See motive E9. ...
E9aa - A man searches for a missing woman, who is a fox by nature, and comes to the hole where she disappea...
E9b - The unknown owner is an aquatic creature (water turtle, snail, mollusk). See motive E9. ...
E9c - A person converges with a woman who may take the form of a large herbivorous mammal or emerge from i...
E9d - A magical wife first looks like a dog or puppy. See motive E9. ...
E9e - The young man receives a puppy, dog skin, frog, fruit, etc. from supernatural creatures. Upon return...
E9f - The magic wife is a parrot. See E9 and K25 motifs. ...
E9g - The magic wife is a vulture. See E9 and K25 motifs. ...
E9h - The magical wife (husband; rarely: the girl is the hero's patroness) takes the form of a dove, a tur...
E9i1 - A man marries supernatural woman who is a swan...
E9i2 - A man marries supernatural woman who is a duck...
E9i3 - A man marries supernatural woman who is a goose...
E9i4 - A man marries supernatural woman who is a (white) crane...
E9j - A person marries a monkey who takes the form of a woman, or a person hides a woman and pretends that...
E9k - husband or wife is the epitome of honey or a human bee. ...
E9l - Man marries mouse-woman...
E9m - Man marries a polar bear or grizzly who becomes a woman or a woman who becomes a bear...
E9n - Man marries a seal, dolphin or porpous who takes guise of a woman and lives with her in the human wo...
E9o - Man marries frog- or toad-woman...
E10 - Characters who look like animals (usually puppies) or monsters become children of a woman or spouse ...
E11 - A future family member discovers or stays with a person after an object that defines the character's...
E12 - The character draws an object or creature on the sand (ash), which comes to life. ...
E13 - The shamanic tambourine is compared or associated with a lake. ...
E13a - People take ritual objects out of the underwater world or return them to this world. ...
E14 - The rituals are derived from the spirits of the dead. ...
E14a - People kill demons, examine their bodies, make ritual costumes and masks to reproduce the appearance...
E15 - People learn how to make boats and rowing from birds; a bird or part of its body serves as a model f...
E15a - bow of the boat is modeled on a bird's sternum. See motive E15. ...
E15b - Female birds sew the birch bark cover of the hero's boat. See motive E15. ...
E16 - When rowing with an oar, the character first tries to push off not with a plane, but with an edge. S...
E17 - People get an idea of the ornamentation of vessels, baskets, bodies, etc., or a sign system after so...
E18 - People learn to make or decorate pottery or baskets (usually learn how to draw a pattern) thanks to ...
E19 - Narcotic plants arise from a person's body torn apart by others. ...
E20 - When a person enters the water, the fish dies. ...
E21 - The child catches fish (with poison), or fish venom is released from his body. A fish or a water sna...
E22 - Once inside a creature, the swallowed character learns rituals, songs, ornamental motifs, extracts d...
E23 - It is necessary to throw a handful of fleas or lice at the character; this is the only thing that ma...
E24 - Human joints appear after the first ancestor (or several ancestors) fell from a height, breaking his...
E25 - People learn the art of weaving from a spider or from a person who later becomes a spider; a spider ...
E26 - Fish caught turn into first people or women. (Texts on catching women in human form from the water a...
E27 - Humans arise from droplets of blood from an injured anthropomorphic creature. ...
E28 - People shoot in the Month, his blood is pouring to the ground. ...
E29 - Two characters (usually a coyote and a lizard) argue about whether people's hands should have the sh...
E30 - A man does not have a wife or a husband and uses a wooden ersatz as his spouse. ...
E30a - A man who does not have a wife or a husband uses an ersatz made of wood or other material as his spo...
E30b - A man makes a figure or gets a woman. She comes to life and becomes his wife. ...
E31 - A man makes a wooden doll and acts like it's alive. It doesn't come to life or comes back to life on...
E31a - Several men (women) are involved in saving, creating or reviving a girl (man), or mourn her (his) de...
E31a1 - Three (rarely four or two) men are involved in creating a girl: one carves a figure out of wood, the...
E31a2 - One of several men should get a girl. She or someone else explains that one of the applicants may be...
E31b - Several women take part in the reanimation of a dead man. They argue whose role was crucial and/or w...
E31c - Several men, each with a unique skill, bring a (kidnapped) girl from a distant country. ...
E32 - The first people or the first woman (ancestor, goddess) are born as trees, come out of wood, stump, ...
E33 - People come from grains, seeds, dough. ...
E34 - cannibal has been killed. From his ashes emerge musical instruments that are taboo for women, used i...
E35 - The first people or creatures created by the Creator's competitor were not finished, not entirely an...
E36 - The human body was or could be covered with a protective layer (bone, rarely hair), but it has been ...
E36a - Nails are constantly growing or the human body is covered with a hard crust only on the nails, becau...
E37 - The creator collects many sticks, feathers, reeds, etc., turns them into people (either people of bo...
E38a - A woman gives birth to a pumpkin, a bag, a bag of eggs, a piece of meat. What is born is cut, choppe...
E38b - After a global catastrophe or at the beginning of time, a pumpkin appears on earth, and people's anc...
E38c - The first people are dumb and spoke after being hit, laughed, etc....
E39 - The child of a pig or boar is a woman or man - the ancestor of a certain group of people. ...
E39a - The child of a pig or boar is a woman or man - the ancestor of a certain group of people. ...
E40 - The first people have their nostrils set upwards, and it rains there. ...
E41 - A skilled blacksmith, in the form of a special gift, can take the hot iron in the furnace with his b...
E41a - The first mites were made as a result of observation of animals (a dog's crossed legs, two snakes, s...
F1 - The first woman, female deity, or female animals were first male (male), whose sex was then changed....
F2 - A baby is born from a tumor on the character's body, either placed there for a while, or comes from ...
F3 - A man accidentally eats a magic remedy designed for a woman to become pregnant and gives birth to a ...
F3a - A man carries a child like a woman. ...
F4 - At the beginning of time, the hero or people even conceived children not through sexual contact, but...
F5 - The character does not want or cannot give all applicants his daughters to marry and turns various a...
F5a - God was going to make Eve out of Adam's rib. The rib was taken away by a dog (cat, fox, monkey, damn...
F5b - The character (listed in square brackets in the list of ethnic groups) suggests another woman. Witho...
F6 - Woman has no vagina and it is later made by bird or animal...
F7 - A person catches, grabs, meets, gets a woman associated with the water-chthonic world (fish, siren, ...
F8 - At first (.55.60.67.73.) women and men lived separately from each other, then they came together. Cf...
F9 - For different reasons, sexual contact with a woman is deadly dangerous for a man...
F9a - are teeth, blades, or sharp stones in a woman's vagina or on the inside of her thighs; a vagina is a...
F9a1 - To scare off a boyfriend (priest, worker, etc.) or demon, a girl or young woman pretends to have tee...
F9b - There is biting piranha in a woman's genitals. ...
F9c - A snake (in Oceania, a moray eel) in the vagina; the vagina is the snake's mouth; the snake crawls o...
F9d - In the genitals of a woman or man, there are small stinging creatures that are dangerous for a partn...
F9e - There are small mammals with sharp teeth in the woman's vagina. ...
F9e1 - Woman’s genitals are dangerous becouse of a biting or sting animal(s) is (are) inside (and not onl...
F9f - demon, without a woman's knowledge, regularly kills her suitors on their wedding night. ...
F9f1 - Inside the woman is a snake (snakes, scorpions, just poison) that comes out of her mouth. {The F9F1 ...
F9f2 - A woman puts part of the flesh of her murdered snake lover in her purse and makes a corresponding ri...
F9g - A strong woman overcomes and kills suitors. Hero or his helper tames her (usually whips in the weddi...
F9g1 - In the first marriage night, the bride that has supernatural strength thrusts her weight upon her br...
F10 - A woman has a second mouth (usually in her vagina) with sharp teeth. A person inserts or throws a st...
F11 - penis burns, bites, eats food. ...
F12 - husband kills his wife by inserting her lover's severed penis into her body. ...
F13 - Human or monkey genitals acquire their current shape and color as a result of copulation with a girl...
F14 - The hero was born as a result of a man copulating with a stone, a rock. ...
F15 - The trickster sticks its plant-like penis out of the ground, provoking the woman to sit on it. ...
F16 - Men had biological characteristics that are now characteristic of women, or vice versa (beard, menst...
F17 - Women or men first had or should have had genitals in a different place than they are now. ...
F18a - Penis is so long that he can turn it round his waist or send into a woman who is at a long distance ...
F18b - The man has a penis of incredible length. When copulating, he usually crawls towards a woman like a ...
F18c - The character sees a girl on the other side of the river, copulates with her in an unusual way (send...
F18d - female genitals were huge. ...
F19 - After copulating with a frog, a man's penis is crippled (if not otherwise: it becomes long, see moti...
F20 - After copulation, a man and a woman are unable to open their arms. ...
F20a - At first, people copulated like dogs do now, but then they switched with them. ...
F21 - While the character copulates with a woman, she turns into a tree or rock. His penis gets stuck in i...
F22 - The character asks a person of the opposite sex about the purpose of the part of the body that is us...
F23 - Blood shed during sexual intercourse or artificial defloration during the creation era causes menstr...
F24 - Women lose blood when they are bitten by fish, snake, etc....
F25 - A woman is stained with someone else's or her own blood or blood-like paint, and women have been men...
F26 - The transition of sacred sound instruments (whistles, horns) from women to men is associated with th...
F27 - It is dangerous for girls or women to approach water (aquatic creatures drag it away or swallow it; ...
F28 - The penis is a particular monstrous being with whom copulate the primeval women, the amazons, or a c...
F28a - There is only one penis - the husband of the first women or Amazons, usually (except Ojibwa and Mont...
F28a1 - A living penis is a dangerous creature that attacks humans. ...
F28a2 - The field owner, intentionally or without hearing the question, answers that he grows penises. After...
F28a3 - A girl (woman) has an object that is pleasant (useful). Once in the wrong hands, he turns out to be ...
F28a4 - Penises are fruits or shoots of plants...
F28b - A woman uses a penis made from wax, wood, fruit, or root. Usually her husband or male relative greas...
F28c - A woman masturbates with the penis of a large animal that one of the men killed while hunting. ...
F28d - Masturbating with an artificial penis, a woman conceives children. ...
F29 - girl (woman) sits on the ground and copulates with a snake, worm or eel that crawls out of the groun...
F29a - To kill a woman's lover, who looks like a worm or snake and climbs into her vagina from the ground, ...
F30 - A woman or a girl takes a snake, an eel (i.e. Pacific snake-eel), a lizard, or a worm for husband or...
F30a - A woman nurses a worm (caterpillar, reptile, fish) instead of a child; people kill a monster. ...
F31 - girl or woman conceives without knowing whether it is from a reptile, when she touches a dead reptil...
F32 - Young children or one infant who temporarily become adult men and/or come out of the womb, or snakes...
F33 - A woman or group of women takes a water animal or water monster as lovers. A woman's (s) husband (s)...
F34 - A woman takes a large land animal as a lover. Her husband, brother, or (adopted) children kill or ma...
F34a - Tapir kidnaps a young woman, gets pregnant with him, dies giving birth to his son. ...
F34b - A girl (a woman, a group of women) intentionally takes a penis, which exist as a being apart, a snak...
F35 - A woman or man has an illegal or unnatural relationship, often with a monster or animal. A husband o...
F35a - Person does not know that he or she eats or cooks the meat of the member of his or her household (bl...
F36 - woman or man's (adopted) children kill their father's or (adopted) lover (or an inhuman spouse) of t...
F37 - To summon a lover, the character taps a calebass placed on the water. ...
F38 - Women possessed secret knowledge, sanctuaries, or ritual objects that are now forbidden to them; the...
F39 - In the past or in a distant country, women dominated men, were active parties in marital relations, ...
F40a - A male character, an androgyne, a monstrous penis alone owns, leads them, or takes the first women a...
F40b - A single man ends up in a women's village. Usually he has to satisfy a woman there in addition to hi...
F40c - A powerful man consistently kills boys born to his wife or sister. ...
F41 - First ancestor men kill women who behave against social norms. ...
F42 - Feeling hurt, men leave their wives or sisters. ...
F42a - In the first ancestral community, young men or boys turn into birds or bats and fly away. ...
F43 - Women in the first ancestral community kill or abandon men. ...
F43a - In the community of first ancestors, women kill, try to kill, or transform men. ...
F43b - Leaving men, the women of the ancestral community hide in a hole under the ground. ...
F43c - husbands of first women, Amazons, or single women are small animals-usually flying foxes. ...
F44 - In the ancestral community, women and men quarrel, leave, kill, maim each other, etc....
F45 - There are or have been villages where only women lived or live (cf. Motives F8, F45B). ...
F45a - A woman or female conceives an animal, exposing her genitals to the wind. ...
F45a1 - A woman is impregnated by wind in defiance of her wish...
F45b - There were men who lived separately from women. See also motif F8. ...
F46 - At the beginning of time, two or many men (animal people) have only one woman. ...
F46a - Men (animal people) find a woman at the top of a tree and copulate with her there. ...
F47 - The pieces of a creature or lump of living flesh cut into many parts are scattered or dispersed. Aft...
F47a - Men use every part of a single woman's body for copulation, or every man takes a part of her body cu...
F47b - To create new people (new women) to replace the destroyed ones, the character leaves something (feat...
F48 - Individual women are physically different, as the pieces of the first woman's flesh divided were not...
F49 - The women had their bellies cut to remove the baby. Someone explains how to give birth or makes chil...
F49a - A small animal (mouse, rat, rabbit, two-womb, bird) explains how to give birth. See motive F49. ...
F50 - Babies have the ability to leave their mother's womb and return to it again. ...
F51 - Someone comes to the face of the opposite sex under cover of night. The marriage partner intentional...
F51a - After incest is discovered, the sister openly demands her brother as her husband, turns into a monst...
F51b - To find out the nature or location of a character's locus, another quietly attaches a long thread to...
F51c - After learning that an unknown lover is her own brother, the girl shows him her genitals or naked br...
F51d - Ginseng roots are boys or girls who help the hero. ...
F52 - first ancestor bird places pubic hair or part of a woman's genitals on his head; since then, birds o...
F53 - An ugly man marries but hides his face. When they see him, the marriage ends. ...
F53a - The husband hides his face from his wife because she does not know that he is the Bat or Owl. ...
F54 - Unknowingly, a son converges with his mother or a daughter with a father. (Incest with a mother is o...
F54a - In her husband's guise, a woman does not immediately discover noticeable signs that indicate that he...
F54b - A boy or boy copulates with his mother or sister. This becomes known from the remains of paint or fe...
F54c - The husband sees traces of someone's fingernails on his wife's body and gathers the men to find out ...
F54d - A woman gives birth to a boy after accidentally drinking an animal's urine, or a female animal gives...
F54e - A young man kills somebody and later gets to know that ut was his father...
F55 - Not understanding what her partner of the opposite sex wants, a woman or girl names or shows various...
F55a - The demonic character wants a woman to expose a certain part of her body, because only there you sho...
F56 - Seeing the vagina of a mother, daughter, daughter-in-law, sister, niece, or mother-in-law, a man or ...
F56a - To see a woman's genitals, a man throws something brightly flashing into the hearth. The woman loose...
F57 - A girl or her father (rarely a mother) picks a plant (usually a flower) and as a result runs into a ...
F58 - The character spends the night with a group of women hiding their nature and/or intentions. In the e...
F59 - By pretending to be a woman, the trickster turns a part of his body, another character, or object in...
F60 - A girl or woman is ill. The character comes to heal her. The treatment consists of him copulating wi...
F61 - The male character pretends to be sick, weak, unconscious; the woman carries him on her back, copula...
F62 - An (ostensibly) sick (ugly, weak, poorly clad) person remains at home when others go to the feast. T...
F63 - trickster man turns into a woman and gets married. As a result, he is exposed, or runs away from her...
F64 - The character appears to be another person to pair up with a close relative in a descending or (less...
F64a - Going away or pretending to die, a person bids his or her relative to marry another person who resem...
F64b - A woman pretends to be a stranger to have sexual relations with her (grand)son, daughter or brother...
F65 - To satisfy his secret desire to violate social norms (forbidden sex, refusal to share food with rela...
F65a - Person pretends to die. His or her wife or husband abandons him or her on a burial place. He or she ...
F65b - The character simulates death to eat greedily alone. ...
F65c - A man feigns death to marry his daughter or to eat burial food. One of the younger children recogniz...
F65d - The character pretends to be dying and is left at the burial site. However, his wife (mother, aunt) ...
F66 - To commit incest with daughter, grandmother, sister (brother), father, grandson, brother (sister) pr...
F67 - The old woman lives with her (adopted) daughter, niece, or daughter-in-law. (Allegedly) turns into a...
F68 - A woman pretends to be dead or actually dies. A (former) lover comes to her grave. She goes with him...
F69 - woman's husband (male relative), through her children, invites her to come and make love to him; the...
F70 - A woman falsely accuses a man of assaulting her. ...
F70a - To accuse a man or boy of (sexual) abbuse, a woman tears her clothes, smears or scratches her body p...
F70b - A woman takes revenge on a man who has rejected her love. ...
F70c - The young man becomes a victim of intrigue and is crippled (usually shattered). His dicks are restor...
F70d - A girl pretends to be a man or a castrato, or a girl hides an injury, or a man pretends to be a girl...
F70e - The girl pretends to be a man, magically acquires a masculine nature and lives with her wife. Cf. mo...
F70e1 - An old man needs a son to do a man's job. The (only youngest) daughter undertakes this (having succe...
F70e2 - The father takes turns sending daughters or sons to a difficult task. At the very beginning, their c...
F70f - Once in a deserted place, a person accidentally changes his sex. ...
F71 - When refused, the man falsely accuses the woman of debauchery; others believe and try to punish her ...
F72 - The woman asks the man to tie her so that it seems from the outside that she is being raped before c...
F73a - vulva is an unhealed wound on the body of the first women, or the first people did not copulate beca...
F73b - A person tells a wolf or bear that his ox or horse is strong because he has been neutered. A wolf or...
F74 - Seeing a dangerous character, a man or woman undresses and pretends to be dead (or the character him...
F75 - The hunter sees a tapir calling a conditional signal to a female inhabitant of the waters; she comes...
F76 - People learn how to make love when they see birds, fish, or animals copulate; animals teach people h...
F77a - A huge penis serves as a bridge. ...
F78 - The character has teeth in the anus or a second head in place of the anus. ...
F79 - The character consistently marries various non-human women, but is disappointed every time (usually ...
F80 - The first men and/or women do not have genitals, then they get them. ...
F80a - Genitals exist independently of people and can be left behind, attached to the body, etc....
F81 - The character does not recognize his reflection in the water, thinks that someone is looking at him ...
F82 - son-in-law uses the trick to sleep with his mother-in-law, or the mother-in-law uses the son-in-law....
F82a - To lure a forbidden marriage partner into his hammock, the character screams with the voices of bird...
F83 - The character does something forbidden and indecent in a place that is hidden from prying eyes and t...
F83a - One character asks another's children to convey an insult to their mother or father - usually announ...
F83b - A strong female animal chases a weak male, but gets stuck between trees, stones, etc. The runaway mo...
F84 - A guest or younger brother has sexual intercourse with the owner's wife or older brother. Wanting to...
F85 - The month/moon leads women against men or takes women away from men. ...
F86 - The character causes a conditional signal to a married partner or pupil who is inhuman in nature; th...
F86a - The character takes care of a fish, crab, or other creature. Others watch the character, kill and ea...
F87 - snake crawls onto the clothes of a bathing girl, climbs down for the promise to marry him, and takes...
F87a - snake crawls onto the clothes of a bathing girl, climbs down for the promise to marry him, takes her...
F87b - snake crawls onto the clothes of a bathing girl, climbs down for the promise to marry him, takes her...
F88 - female genitals are at first fragrant or odorless, but then acquire an unpleasant odor (they do not ...
F89 - My sister and brother live alone. My brother doesn't agree to incest. The sister goes to the trick, ...
F90 - Brother and sister are getting married. When children born in it learn about their origins, the marr...
F91 - A person finds or grows monstrous worms to eat his wife. ...
F92 - The male character allows himself to be used as a sexual object. ...
F93 - After a person does an action, his penis begins to speak (often: repeating what the person said). ...
F93a - A person's penis begins to speak incessantly, falling silent only after his mother-in-law takes it i...
F94 - A person ascends to the upper world, where he can choose a wife who is either involved in life or de...
F95 - Two companions or brothers live together. One has a wife he hides. Another suspects its existence, d...
F96 - A girl or wife rejects an ugly man. He becomes handsome (usually after he gets to a supernatural bei...
F97 - After eating certain foods, people become sexually mature and/or lose hair or skin on their bodies. ...
F97a5 - Being responsible for breaking food tabou by humans, snake lost its limbs as a punishment...
F98 - A heavenly anthropomorphic deity descends to earth and converges with a cow. ...
F99 - baby turns into an adult man, copulates with the mother, then takes on his former appearance. ...
F100 - The magic tool shows that the only chaste woman is a maid, an orphan, etc. The king chooses a maid. ...
F100a - To revive a man or remove the arrowhead (bullet) from his body, a chaste girl or woman must touch (s...
F100b - Because of her virtue, a woman is able to do what others cannot do, but she only succeeds after she ...
F101 - Using magic, the rival woman tries to prevent the heroine to give birth...
G1 - In order to gain or regain valuables (land, soil, crops, sun, fire, shamanic knowledge, good luck), ...
G2 - character who embodies fertility and life disappears or is kidnapped and then returned by request or...
G3 - Cultivated plants or fertile soil for their cultivation are hidden inside the rock. Birds or Thunder...
G4 - Cultivated plants are found on the mountain or inside the mountain. ...
G5 - The fruits and shoots of different cultivated plants or the fruits of different wild plants grow on ...
G6 - One of the trees is the main thing, the original, something very different from the others (the firs...
G6a - A year is described as a tree, the number of branches, branches, leaves of which corresponds to the ...
G7 - The first ancestors need to cut down a giant tree or (rarely) a rock. Their axes become blunt or bre...
G8 - People or animals cut down or gnaw a tree, a mountain, or a sky support. As soon as employees are di...
G8a - A man cuts a tree to turn a trunk into a boat or something else (Yap: a board for building a house; ...
G8b - A person hides in a tree or (Kazakhs) hides behind walls. Another tries to knock down a tree (break ...
G8c - They try to cut down the tree to get cultivated plants hanging from the branches or water or fish in...
G8d - A tree (pole, mountain) is cut down (gnawed, rubbed) or not allowed to do so in order to rid the wor...
G8e - The character unsuccessfully cuts down a tree growing on the moon. ...
G8f - The characters cut down the tree, but the trunk overgrows. It can be cut off after the chipped chips...
G8g - There is a one-of-a-kind tree that needs to be bent or felled. Its parts are inhabited by different ...
G9 - The forest cut down during the clearing of the site is revived by morning, and the cultivated field ...
G9a - A person clears the area from vegetation, but by morning it revives. At night, a character tells tre...
G10 - A tree with a broken trunk remains hanging, as it is held from above. ...
G11 - squirrel plays an important role in cutting down a giant tree (it usually cuts or tries to cut the v...
G12 - A huge tree, on which various fruits ripen and/or has water in its trunk, grows out of a human body ...
G12a - Cultivated plants emerge from blood droplets or flow like blood from cuts on the human or animal bod...
G12b - Cultivated plants are a gift from a male star or a female star. ...
G12c - fox or coyote rises to heaven, and when it returns, spreads plants on the ground that used to be onl...
G13 - Before the advent of cultivated plants, humans ate rotten or soft (Ceiba L., balsa Ochroma (Bombax) ...
G13a - Before the appearance of cultivated plants or fire, people ate earth, clay, and stones. ...
G13b - Before cultivated plants appeared, people ate mushrooms. Creatures of inhuman nature feed on fungi. ...
G13c - Before the cultivated plants or edible wild plants become known, people ate (decomposed) wood, bark,...
G14 - A person swallowed by a water monster is taken by them to the underwater or overseas world, receives...
G15 - In another world or in the past, products or materials used by people look or look like people. ...
G16 - Ants are the first to find cultivated plants that are unknown to others and concentrated in one plac...
G17 - Cultivated (or important edible semi-wild) plant species owe their origin to a snake (moray eel in O...
G18 - boy, woman, or less often a man asks others to leave him/her in the woods, burn him, scatter the rem...
G19 - After a conflict in the community of first ancestors, a group of men or boys (paresis: boy and girl)...
G20 - Edible crops or wild plants arise from the body of an old woman, young woman or girl. ...
G21 - A coconut tree grows out of the character's head. ...
G22 - frog/toad is associated with people's acquisition of cultivated plants. ...
G23 - The origin of different (more than two) creatures or objects is due to the metamorphosis of a living...
G23a - Parts of the body and organs of a living being turn into various plants like teeth into corn, testic...
G23b - People of different ethnic groups emerge from parts of the creature's body, or people of different g...
G24 - The first seeds or shoots of cultivated or essential edible wild plants and/or agronomic knowledge w...
G24a - Person steals cultivated plants for the people hiding the seeds on/in his body...
G25 - Cereal seeds are scattered over the world, fell to the ground, and now people grow bread. ...
G26 - After swallowing or hiding food in his mouth, the character brings them to the ground (gives them to...
G27 - Cultivated plants appear with urine or at the place where the hero urinated. ...
G28 - The tree contains fish in its trunk. ...
G29 - The character consists of or turns into various household and industrial artifacts. ...
G30 - The long penis is cut into pieces that turn into many edible plants or different types of trees. Cf....
G31 - To clear the area, the character ties the trees with a rope and effortlessly knocks everything down ...
H1a - The character decides that people should die. His or her child, mother, or a creature whose life is ...
H1b - The character acts that lead to death because he does not care or wants the death of a child or woma...
H1bb - One character refuses to resurrect another's favorite dog, and this conflict involves losing the abi...
H1c - People stop reviving (or no longer come alive) after the deceased is buried in the ground for the fi...
H1d - The deceased returns, but people send him back, refuse to accept him, or bury him again. Death has b...
H1e - A character is the first to go to the world of the dead, after which all people follow the same path...
H1f - People learn how to treat the deceased by observing the behavior of a crow. ...
H2 - Animals ask God to make humans (tigers: pets) mortal or otherwise reduce their number because they f...
H3 - Death is sent to people as punishment for excessive sympathy for a dead animal or for playing funera...
H4 - Those who change their skin (bark, clothes) are immortal (forever young). (Cf. K56a5a motive: Peel o...
H4a - People no longer rejuvenate (usually they do not change their skin), because a person was disturbed ...
H5 - Reptiles or invertebrates are opposed to humans as immortal and/or responsible for people dying and ...
H6a - Mortal humans are opposed to plants that regularly shed their bark, bloom in the spring after winter...
H6b - product that gives immortality and is intended for humans has not been delivered to its intended pur...
H6bb - The character is sent to give people an object or substance that is essential for them to possess. T...
H6c - The raven (crow, vulture) is associated with death or is opposed to man as immortal to mortals (sent...
H6c1 - To get the desired object, the character grabs a chick (snake, crustacean) and promises to let it go...
H6c2 - At the edge of the world lies the land of darkness. Those who want to get living water or gold go th...
H6c3 - Big migratory birds who fly like a wedge (stocks, cranes, swans, geese; Zugvögel in German) are con...
H6d - After obtaining a tool that ensures immortality, the character falls asleep or leaves the product un...
H7 - Death (alone or also illness, old age) is a special character, different from the Lord of the World ...
H7a - Having received knowledge from Death (rarely: Happiness or a spirit) whether the sick will be healed...
H7b - A man lures Death (Devil) to climb a tree or sit on a bench to which they are stuck and can free the...
H7b1 - After receiving a magic bag, where any creature climbs against his own will at the request of the ow...
H7b2 - Person called Poverty makes Death to promise him/her that he, the Death, will never come to him. Bec...
H7c - Death promises a person to pick him up after they finish a prayer or song (formerly ATU 1199B)). A p...
H7c1 - Cunning man first deceives Death (Devil) and then, also using a trich, gets into the Paradise...
H7d - A person calls on Death, and when she comes, he asks her to help him pick up a bunch of firewood or ...
H7e - People used to know when they were going to die, so they stopped doing business or doing their dutie...
H7f - God gives instructions that certain categories of people should die and suffer. The character who ha...
H7f1 - Death devours the dead and thus satisfies its hunger. ...
H7f2 - The incarnation of death had a body that was visible for the people. Later Death becomes invisible...
H7g - A person sees a lot of burning candles or lamps. When one of them burns out, one person dies. ...
H7g1 - Person (who is usually in search of the godgather for the newborn child) rejects God (saints) and de...
H8 - Not daring to come into contact with something unclean, toxic, dangerous or hot, people lost their i...
H9 - People are mortal (sick, old) because they are compared to something weak, fragile, easy to die or d...
H9a - Of the two women, one associated with a stone and the other with a plant, only a plant woman leaves ...
H9b - People are like plants that, although mortal, live in their descendants (shoots). ...
H10 - Humans are mortal because they are like a rock thrown into the water; they usually miss the opportun...
H11 - People are mortal or defective because they answer the call (or name) of the creature that brings de...
H12 - The living one visits the afterlife, usually following the deceased (except for texts about the retu...
H12a - The wife dies, the husband comes for her, or he kills her for treason; she turns into a monster, sta...
H12b - In the afterlife, dead or demons feed on excrement. ...
H12c - The husband follows his deceased wife to the afterlife, but cannot bring her back, or returns her, b...
H13 - The character comes to the afterlife, meets the deceased there, he manages to bring him back to the ...
H14 - A woman who has returned from the world of the dead flies back, becoming a bird or a fly. ...
H15 - Dead people or spirits do not hear screams when they are alive, but they hear whispers, yawns, gurgl...
H16 - There are rivers of tears in the other world. Tears shed on the ground fill large containers there. ...
H16a - The narratives (in different contexts) mention rivers (lakes) of blood (also water used to wash the ...
H16b - The narratives (in different contexts) mention a milk pond (river, lake, wave in the sea) that exist...
H17 - The ancestors surround the dead or sick with a ring, trying to protect him. The antagonist manages t...
H18 - Commercial animals were concentrated in one place. A character creates them there or lets them run a...
H18a - The owner of commercial animals hides them underground; one of the first ancestors turns into a pupp...
H18b - Having received livestock from supernatural characters, a person (usually due to a violation of the ...
H19 - raven (s) hides commercial animals in a pen, cave, or scares them away from hunters. See motive H18....
H20 - All fish or (rarely) mollusks were concentrated in one place. A character lets her escape or intenti...
H20a - A woman or several women keep fish or water in a container; a man releases all the fish into rivers ...
H21 - The character owns animals or fish; the boy, boy or girl knows the secret or serves as bait themselv...
H21a - fish is concentrated in a small container, from which the owner takes as much as necessary. Another ...
H22 - Large commercial animals had no sense of smell. They found it and started running away from the hunt...
H22a - Large commercial animals were concentrated in one place and were not afraid of people. They ran away...
H23 - now rigid and inedible object originally consisted of fat. ...
H24 - vessel or other small container with valuables or dangerous creatures is open (o) (ahead of time). I...
H24a - Opening the bag, the character releases stars rushing into the sky in disarray. ...
H24b - character must open the vessel with the soul of the deceased when he gets to the place or after a ce...
H24c - People open the vessel (bundle, basket, etc.) in which death (or old age, illness) is located, and t...
H24d - The animal character who released the contents (darkness, insects, reptiles) from the vessel is stil...
H24e - Bringing human embryos into our world, the character drops or discovers what he has brought ahead of...
H24f - The character gives the other a small bag, placing a lot of meat or fish in it. The person who recei...
H24g - A woman brought back from another world or received there disappears as soon as the man opens the bo...
H25 - People are offered a choice of two subjects, one of which is death, the other is life, or they are a...
H26 - A vessel with stinging insects or reptiles should be thrown into the river, into the sea, and buried...
H27 - Before spreading around the world, stinging or blood-sucking insects or reptiles, diseases, or evil ...
H27a - When creating land, a negative character asks the positive one for as much land as necessary to supp...
H27a1 - When creating land, a negative character asks the positive one for as much land as necessary to supp...
H28 - A dead and destroyed (often burned) creature (usually an ogre, a ferocious animal, a strong shaman) ...
H28a - When a character is burned, smoke and sparks turn into mosquitoes and other blood-sucking insects th...
H28b - Trimmed hairs on an animal's skin, or ash and smoke from a burnt skin covered with hair, turn into b...
H28c - The character creates blood-sucking insects to influence the behavior of the marriage partner. ...
H29 - A woman converges with an animal. People of hostile people come from or derive their culture from ch...
H30 - When meeting two women (together or one at a time), the hero must or can choose one. Usually it is e...
H31 - God summons several characters, including humans and heavenly bodies, and makes man mortal and lumin...
H32a - A young woman is the embodiment of fertility, she comes to live with people, and food becomes easily...
H32b - A girl and/or boy, who are children of a deity, come to live with people, which leads to an abundanc...
H33 - At first, babies walked, should or could walk right after birth. ...
H33a - God wanted to throw his newborn child (through a fence, house, etc.) to get back on his feet and wal...
H34a - The character suggests what the world should be like, and in particular believes that people should ...
H34b - Somewhere there is or was a river that flowed or was supposed to flow in two directions at once. ...
H34c - Rice flew from the field to the house by himself. ...
H34d - zoomorphic character climbs to the sky or moon to bite off a piece of them. ...
H34d1 - The sky or celestial objects were edible, but then this food source became unavailable or used only ...
H34e - The snow was edible. ...
H34f - baskets or clay vessels themselves carried weights. ...
H34g - One grain was enough to prepare the meal. ...
H34h - Firewood and firewood came by themselves, flew into the house, they did not need to be specially har...
H35 - People's teeth are made of fragile material. Usually, the motive explains the etiology of toothache....
H36 - The character is sent to give instructions or some items. The messenger distorts the message, brings...
H36a - The character distorts the message sent to him, knowingly lies, brings the wrong thing, loses what h...
H36b - chameleon is to blame for the fact that a person is mortal or that he must work; he loses what the d...
H36c - lizard is to blame for the fact that a person is mortal. See H36 motif. <b></b>...
H36d - The hare distorts God's command and/or is to blame for the fact that a person is mortal. See H36 mot...
H36e - The rat is to blame for the fact that a person is mortal. ...
H36f - raven has been sent to deliver an important item or send a message. He distorts the message or loses...
H36ff - raven (crow) or other large vulture tries to kill people and/or is responsible for the fact that a p...
H36g - God sends a messenger to tell people to eat rarely (once a day, every three days, etc.). The messeng...
H36g1 - When a bull (ox, cow) was told to give people certain instructions, he confused them or deliberately...
H36gg - It is the coyote's fault that a person is mortal. ...
H36h - Creatures, including a frog or a toad, must get over the barrier. This doesn't happen as intended an...
H36hh - A frog or a toad is to blame for the fact that a person is mortal. ...
H36i - A goat or sheep is to blame for the fact that a person is mortal. See H36 motif. <b></b>...
H36j - lark is to blame for the fact that a person is mortal. ...
H37 - Magic object, device that makes hunting or fishing easy gets into possession of a person who is unab...
H37a - The character gives the other the ability to easily light a fire. He uses it unnecessarily, loses it...
H37b - A character gives someone his power (usually a skunk fires his volley); the skunk spends money witho...
H38 - A supernatural character changes his appearance, comes to the hero's children (less often to himself...
H39 - Snakes drink liquid spilled on the ground and as a result become poisonous or immortal; creatures re...
H40 - The dog protects and protects (successfully or unsuccessfully) a human figure that has not been fina...
H41 - Due to the fault of a dog, a person is weak, mortal, and vicious. Usually, the antagonist bribes the...
H42 - After creating people's bodies or conceiving a creation, the creator or his representative leaves fo...
H43 - One character creates people's bodies and the other makes them come to life. ...
H43a - Having created the human body, the creator leaves. At this time, another character tries to break a ...
H43aa - Having created the human body, the creator leaves. At this time, his opponent spat on a figure that ...
H43ab - Man is mortal because somebody spit on him when his figure was still in process of creation...
H44 - Two characters, one connected to the sky or water, and the other to the earth, or to the spirit worl...
H44a - Two persons, one of whom is connected with the sky (water, spirit world) and another with the earth ...
H45 - A woman or child disrespects food by staining it with feces. For this, people (rarely: only the culp...
H46 - God takes away people's bread as punishment, but leaves some for the animal (usually a dog), so cere...
H46a - peculiarities of cereal vegetation (usually the size of an ear of bread) are determined by the dog's...
H47 - Heaven (heavenly deity) or Earth are offended by people's behavior towards them, and responds accord...
H48 - Diseases - female sisters (less commonly male brothers), usually children of an evil spirit. ...
H49 - A dog or other animal kills a creature that threatened a young child. The owner or other people mist...
H49b - A person borrows money and leaves the dog as collateral. The dog is of great benefit to the new owne...
H49c - A pet bird (rarely: a pet) shows visible aggression towards its owner (usually a falcon knocks the b...
H49d - A character (usually a bird) brings healing (rejuvenating) fruit (seed, branch). Incidentally or by ...
H50 - A pair of deities or first ancestors disperse. A man stays on earth or goes to heaven (stays in heav...
H51 - The horse is a predator or is associated with an opponent of God. ...
H52 - A person finds a country where there is no death, but eventually dies. ...
H52a - Coming back from the land of immortality, the hero should not touch the ground. However, he comes do...
H52b - Setting off in search of the land of immortality, the hero comes across persons or animals who are i...
H53 - The wolf takes part in the creation of the earth or is the brother of the creator and/or the victor ...
H54 - character's eyelids (eyelashes, eyebrows) hang down, closing the eyes. In order for his eyes to be w...
H54a - The hero meets an old man whose face is completely covered. He cuts his hair, a grateful old man hel...
H54b - The character's gaze brings death (and destruction). ...
H55 - person who goes to another world consistently sees people punished or rewarded for their lifetime ac...
H55a - Once in a different world, a person sees a husband and wife trying to cover themselves with one blan...
H55b - From a person who has visited hell (met a deity), the robber learns about his future fate, humbly ac...
H56 - After eating certain foods, the first people become mortal or lose their human nature. Cf. Motive F9...
I1 - Things that cause or embody rain and/or thunderstorm are birds or winged anthropomorphic characters....
I2 - Lightning flies out of the eyes or mouth {indicated} of the creature that embodies the thunderstorm....
I3 - Lightning (and thunder) produces an object (sword, arrow, whip, mirror, etc.) in the character's han...
I3a - During a thunderstorm, the character strikes with a whip - these are flashes of lightning. ...
I4 - As the vehicle moves across the sky, thunder sounds. ...
I4a - thunder falls to the ground and can't rise. Usually a person helps him return to heaven. ...
I4b - A person helps thunder defeat the enemy. ...
I4c - Stormbringer's opponent temporarily overcomes and captivates him. ...
I4d - The enemy steals a weapon (usually a musical instrument) that the thunder god uses to cause a thunde...
I4d1 - The enemy steals the thunder's tendons (heart and eyes), who returns them and prevails over the enem...
I4e - The hero and his opponent fight and are still fighting in the sky. This is thunder. ...
I5 - Thunder (lightning, rain) looks like a four-legged mammal - a pig, buffalo, camel, anteater, tapir, ...
I5a - Tapir is associated with the upper world (thunder, sky, moon). ...
I5b - A flying jaguar causes storms, rain, thunderstorms. ...
I6 - A person meets a huge bird carrying clouds, rain, snow, thunderstorm, etc....
I6a - The male and female of a huge bird carry different types of precipitation (for example, an eagle car...
I7 - The reptile produces rain and thunderstorm. ...
I7a - Lightning is associated with a snake. ...
I7b - Lightning is a crack in the sky through which the vault of heaven is visible for a moment. ...
I7c - When a character in the upper world urinates, it rains (dew falls) on the ground. ...
I8c - The ground is kept from falling or swaying because it is tied to ropes. ...
I8e - Four (or eight) anthropomorphic male persons support the earth or the sky or are placed at the four...
I8e1 - The sky or the earth rests upon four or five (cardinal points and the center) supports of any kind (...
I8f - The sky, the world, is based on a single pillar (a pole or a tree). ...
I8g - One giant supports the earth or the sky...
I8h - man and a woman in the underworld support the Earth. ...
I8i - Initially, the earth swings, is unstable, and it has to be specially fixed. ...
I9 - Each (or at least three) of the four cardinal points (as well as the zenith and nadir) and/or object...
I9a - The zenith and/or nadir are described together with four cardinal directions as the fifth (and the s...
I10a - individual tiers or categories of sky or clouds differ in color. ...
I10b - Individual levels or categories of land differ in color. ...
I11 - turtle (toad, frog) serves as the support (embodiment) of the earth (sky). ...
I12 - A tree, a pillar with branches, rarely - a smooth pillar connects the tiers of the universe. The cle...
I13a - A huge water-chthonic or heavenly serpent, dragon, snake-shaped creature has horns on its head. ...
I13b - A small snake, a snake, has horns on its head. ...
I13c - Reptiles own a treasure that a person takes possession of or tries to take possession of. This is us...
I13d - A person enters a snake's home, spends a long time there, is released back or runs away. While in th...
I13e - serpent agrees to let the person go on condition that he does not tell us about their meeting. On pa...
I14 - Creatures that do not have an anus are described. ...
I14a - People without anuses spew out a hole eaten through their mouths or other (marked) holes. See motive...
I15 - Creatures don't have mouths. Usually their mouth is then cut through. ...
I15a - Out of ignorance or in a hurry, anthropomorphic creatures first have their mouths cut vertically. ...
I16 - The first people do not have a mouth, anus, genitals, and their women do not know how to give birth....
I17 - Creatures without a mouth, anus, genitals who do not know how to give birth live underground, in the...
I17a - Creatures without anus or (Greece, yakima, zunyi: mouth) are dwarfs. ...
I18 - By visiting a world of people without an anus or mouth (the underworld, if not otherwise), the hero ...
I19 - Anthropomorphic creatures satisfy hunger with the evaporation of cooked food. See motives I14 (peopl...
I20 - The inhabitants of the lower world or a country on the horizon where the sky is adjacent to the eart...
I20a - Anthropomorphic inhabitants of the upper world are giants...
I20b - People in the upper world are different from those on earth and are belted below or above the waist....
I20c - Dwarfs live in the underworld that somewhat reminds the world of humans. If the dwarfs and the human...
I20c1 - Dwarfs live not deep under the earth but in hills and rocks, usually come from there to the earth...
I20c2 - The denizens of the country at the horizon (where the sky and the earth meet) are dwarfs...
I21 - At sunrise, inhabitants of the underworld or country have red (yellow) hair and/or red or black skin...
I22 - The character must walk between converging and diverging (rising and falling) rocks, trees, etc. For...
I22a - The sky is constantly moving up and down in respect to earth...
I22b - Migratory birds fly from our world to another; the hole to another world is narrow, the path lies be...
I22b1 - Some migratory birds (or shamns in guse of birds) perish when they reach the border of our world...
I22c - Person succeeds in getting through the opening which is going to bang shut but the stern of his boat...
I22d - To get a wonderous medicine that revives (cures) living beings, one must go between clashing rocks...
I22e - On their way to the Beyond, souls of the dead must get between clashing rocks or other moving obstac...
I22f - Person must go beyond relatively small objects (trees, logs, blades) which are incessantly clashing ...
I22g - There are mountains or rocks which permanently collide and separate again from each other or a crack...
I22g1 - Clashing stones are among strange creatures and objects, which the hero sees In the other world. The...
I22h - Person must jump over a crevise or precipice under his feet that is widening and narrowing all the t...
I23 - door of the house opens and slams by itself, pushing people in or out. See motive I22. ...
I24 - snake (or fish) forms a bridge across the river. ...
I25 - Dangerous creatures guard the path to or entry to the character's house. The hero appeases them with...
I25a - The character gives herbivores food intended for predatory animals, and herbivores for predatory ani...
I25b - It's about women who work without simple tools, but using parts of their bodies instead. ...
I26 - On its way to another world, the soul must distract the attention of its guards with gifts or defend...
I27 - A dog and/or (rarely) a domestic cat is the owner, guardian of the land of the dead, a guide on the ...
I27a - Souls of the dead dogs have their own towns in the Beyond or their own paths to travel there...
I27b - A dog ferries person across a river that forms a border between the worlds...
I27c - Dogs with two spots above their eyes stand out and are commonly referred to as double or quadruple-e...
I27d - There is a black or red dog that (associated with objects in the night sky) has a negative effect on...
I28 - Commercial animals or pets are located inside a mountain, in a cave or in the underworld, or have on...
I28a - Big game animals disappear under the earth and produce earthquakes...
I29 - The character climbs a hole for an animal and finds himself in the lower world, or digging a deep ho...
I30 - In the world of the dead, its master or mistress copulates with all new arrivals. ...
I31 - In the afterlife, the souls of the dead are met by a pair of mythological characters - a man and a w...
I32 - There was or is a tree on which the souls of unborn babies grow, whose leaves have turned into human...
I32a - When a leaf or fruit of a particular tree falls, one person on earth dies. ...
I33 - On the afterlife, the soul stops at a tree. ...
I34 - It is necessary to approach a tree that is surrounded by fire, spews fire, throws sharp chips, etc....
I35 - Thunder produces the skin of an animal or (rarely) a person being dragged, or clothes that are dragg...
I35a - thunder is produced by an old woman in the sky. ...
I35a1 - The character claims to be a thunder god, imitates him. ...
I35a1a - The character considers himself equal to a deity, imitating him, mocking him, or trying to kill him....
I35a2 - Thunder is heard when stones or large vessels are rolled, dragged, knocked over in the sky. ...
I35b - The sky is considered metallic. The process of creating it resembles metal forging. ...
I35c - One of the mythological characters, using craft skills, makes (usually forges) tools and natural obj...
I36 - Two brothers (two sisters, brother and sister, multiple siblings, young husband and wife) turn into ...
I37d - Mushrooms are the excrement of a mythological character. See motive I37. ...
I37d1 - St. Peter stealthily eats bread, and when Christ asks him what he is doing, he chokes, spits out cru...
I37e - Tree fungi are steps, small platforms, umbrellas, obstacles that make moving easier or more difficul...
I37f - Mushrooms are called “ears”. ...
I37g - Tree fungi shout like persons...
I38 - There are creatures that combine the characteristics of a dog and a person (usually people with dog ...
I38a - women's husbands are dogs or psoglavans. ...
I39 - A rainbow is a bridge, a road, a ladder. ...
I39a - souls of the dead walk across the rainbow to another world. ...
I40 - A rainbow is a bow. ...
I41 - A rainbow is a reptile (usually a snake), less often a fish or a snake-shaped, usually dangerous obj...
I41a - rainbow rises from an anthill or termite mound. ...
I41b - rainbow drinks (draws in) water (and living beings). ...
I41b1 - rainbow drinks, swallowing fish, people, etc. along with water. Sometimes this fish falls from the s...
I41c - rainbow, or the Milky Way, is the reflection of a snake (fish) on the ground or at sea. ...
I42 - A rainbow is a pair of creatures, usually male and female, male and female. ...
I42g3 - In the forest person comes across a house that is made, completely or partly, of edible matter...
I43a - A giant reptile, a snake, a fish, a chain of fish extends above the ground and/or supports the sky. ...
I43b - The Milky Way is a reptile, a fish, or a chain of fish. ...
I44 - A huge serpent borders, embodies, or supports the earth. ...
I45a - The one who points with a finger or gazes intently at the moon or star will become ill (die), or the...
I45b - The finger pointing or gazing closely at the rainbow will become ill, or the finger pointed at will ...
I45c - Misfortunes and ailments await the counting stars. ...
I46 - A rainbow is an ornamented piece of clothing, a bright fabric, an ornament, a belt. ...
I46a - rainbow is associated with a woman - usually an elderly woman. ...
I46b - The color of the rainbow can be used to predict the yield of individual crops. ...
I46c - rainbow is the rope that cattle are tied to. ...
I46d - rainbow is a hunting loop, a trap. ...
I46e - A rainbow is a sword that cuts a weapon. ...
I47 - rainbow smells disgusting, is associated with malodorous animals, is a stream of secretions, is asso...
I47a - rainbow is associated with a fox or jackal wedding. ...
I48 - The character is unable to move, after which he acquires cosmic dimensions: he supports the earth (s...
I48a - At the terminal part of the narrative the antagonist of the hero descends into the underworld...
I49 - earthquake is an anthropomorphic character (or category of characters) who moves to shake the ground...
I50 - An animal (horse, elk, deer, bear, etc.) with six, eight or more legs is described or depicted. ...
I50a - demon consistently tears off the legs of an animal that helps the hero (usually the horse that the h...
I50b - A predator animal or a zoomorphic non-reptilian monster with six or more legs is described or repres...
I50c - An ungulate animal with an additional set of legs on its back runs using in turns legs under its bel...
I51a - supports the Earth or has a large mammal in the center of the earth. See I8B motif. ...
I51b - The earth or sky is perceived as a large mammal or created from parts of its body. ...
I52 - The world rests on a fish or fish-like creature, or the earth itself is a similar creature or origin...
I53 - An animal on which the earth rests is annoyed by an insect or other small creature, so the animal mo...
I54 - Inside a snake or other aquatic creature there are aquatic animals or live fish; a water monster pro...
I55 - Stars are holes in the sky; or holes in the veil, in the roof of a dwelling, appear to be stars. ...
I55a - Stars are lakes on one of the celestial levels. ...
I55b - The hero is chasing a deer or a moose that carries the sun. ...
I56 - A person who enters another world is invisible to its inhabitants, and whoever he touches usually fa...
I56a - When a man who had got to the land of spirits touches a local dweller the latter dies or becomes sic...
I57 - Thunder's opponents are animals, reptiles, and spirits living in burrows. They usually hide from him...
I58 - The Milky Way is called the bird route and is associated with migratory birds. ...
I59 - The Milky Way is something related to agriculture and scattered - straw, chaff, less often flour, ha...
I59a - Astral objects or moonspots are associated with a story about the theft of certain items, and the va...
I59b1 - The Milky Way is a road to a distant city, usually with religious significance (Rome, Jerusalem, etc...
I59b2 - The Milky Way is St. James's Road. ...
I59b3 - The Milky Way is the road of salt traders, the “Chumatsky Way”. ...
I59b4 - The Milky Way is associated with snow, frost, and cold. ...
I60 - The Milky Way is a seam, a crack between the two halves of the sky. ...
I60a - The Milky Way is a band associated with the longitudinal band on the animal's body. ...
I61 - Milky Way is a trace of spilled milk...
I61a - The Milky Way is a heavenly belt. ...
I62 - The Milky Way is a heavenly river, a pond, a chain of creatures floating in water. ...
I63 - Milky Way is a path of tapir, or tapir is seen in the Milky Way...
I64 - The Milky Way is a trail of animals walking or fleeing. ...
I64a - Two different ungulates race across the sky. The Milky Way is usually their dust trail. ...
I65 - The Milky Way is a path to another world, followed by souls of the dead and/or shamans, or by a fune...
I66 - The Milky Way is ash or smoldering embers. ...
I67 - The giant figure of an emu (in Australia) or a nandu (in South America) can be seen on the Milky Way...
I68 - At a certain point, the sky opens up and you can see what is happening in heaven; it is generally be...
I68a - Once in a year water for a short time acquires special qualities...
I68b - In a certain night of the year any wish that was thought of or voiced is fulfilled...
I69 - Glowing celestial objects or atmospheric phenomena are the bodily secretions of celestial beings. ...
I70 - Trees or reeds grow on the reptile's back or head. ...
I71 - Stars are the roots of plants growing in the upper world. ...
I72 - Stars are anthropomorphic creatures. See motif K19 (marriage to a star). It does not take into accou...
I72a - Stars are children of the moon and/or sun. ...
I73 - Stars (rarely suns and months) are sparks, hot coals. ...
I74 - Stars are (bright) stones, sparkles, beads. ...
I74a - Stars are fireflies. ...
I75 - Before the present world or people of today, there were others (at least two worlds or races). ...
I76a - After a certain period of time, the snake or fish turns into another creature, usually a dragon. ...
I76b - After a certain time or after performing certain actions, an ordinary mouse turns into a bat. ...
I77 - A mighty character associated with thunderstorm and rain, chrome. ...
I78 - The Earth is thought to be rectangular (usually square). ...
I80 - A person who finds himself in the role of an assistant or guest of a heavenly character, or who secr...
I80a - When a person meets Gromov, he himself becomes one of them. ...
I80b - A person is allowed to control the weather to his own advantage. He sends rain in time but forgets t...
I81 - Earth's waters are falling into the abyss. ...
I81a - A giant crab causes earthquakes or floods, closes or can close water runoff. ...
I81a1 - The fight between crab and snake (eel) determines the characteristics of the terrain of a particular...
I81b - At high tide, a creature spews out sea water or displaces it with its body, and at low tide it swall...
I82a - The Morning Star and/or the Evening Star is a male character. ...
I82b - The Morning Star and/or the Evening Star is a female character. ...
I82c - Venus, or an unidentified star in the eastern and/or western sky, is the wife of the Month. See the ...
I82c1 - The Month has two wives (usually the Morning Star and the Evening Star). For a caring woman, he is g...
I82d - The morning and evening stars are opposed as a man and a woman. See motive I82a, I82b. ...
I82e - said about Venus or another star that she sold her mother or father to dress up luxuriously. ...
I82f - (Evening) Venus is associated with a predator animal, usually with a she-wolf...
I82g - Venus or another star (Arcturus, Sirius, etc.) is called the Shepherd's Star (the star of Shepherd, ...
I82h - The name of Venus sounds like Cholpan, Cholbon, Tsolmon, etc. (čol- “sparkle, shine” [Vámbéri...
I82i - The name of the night sky object (usually Venus) sounds like Zukhra, Zahra, Zura, etc....
I83 - Birds (especially vultures and eagles) have lived or live in the sky, usually on one of the smaller ...
I84 - The Milky Way is a ski trail. ...
I84a - Contrary to the warning of his father or mother, a young man or girl sets off in winter and freezes....
I85 - The North Star - stake, nail, horse riding, etc....
I85a - Animals walk around the North Star, or the movement of stars is compared to the movement of animals ...
I85a1 - The North Star is a hole that leads to the upper world. ...
I85b - The North Star is one person. ...
I85c - There are vessels in the sky with certain weather, types of precipitation, seasons, etc....
I85c1 - In the sky there is a special container (vessel, skin, box, etc.) for storing the rain...
I86 - The inhabitant of the upper world releases fluff, wool, scales, which turn into birds, animals, and ...
I86a - Snow comes from bird fluff when a bird shakes off in the sky or when a character shakes out down or ...
I87 - Characters use as cover an object (skull, animal shovel, mitten) belonging to the giant world. Wed. ...
I87a - A gigantic character turns out to be small compared to an even larger character, or the same charact...
I87a1 - The two are engaged in a dialogue, contradictory characterizing the size of creatures and objects. ...
I87a2 - antagonist calls numbers from one to seven or nine, the hero answers what each corresponds to, the a...
I87aa - A giant bull is described (rarely: a horse): a head on one field, a torso on another; a bathhouse on...
I87ab - Strongmen or many people cannot move the body of a killed animal or the leg of a person lying motion...
I87ac - A person gets into his eye something huge that he thinks is a speck. Usually, a bird carries an anim...
I87ad - giant hides a stalked person in his mouth-usually (possibly always) in the hollow of a tooth. ...
I87b - When a character shows off his strength, his wife or mother says he is stronger than he is. He goes ...
I87c - Animals use a small object belonging to the human world (skull, mitten, pitcher, etc.) to hide or mo...
I87c1 - The mouse makes a boat for itself from a small object. ...
I87d - earth used to be inhabited by giants. One of them finds a tiny little man, brings it to his father o...
I87e - After today's humans, dwarfs will live on earth. ...
I87f - Before modern people, there were others who were strong, tall, noble, or other qualities. They disap...
I88 - A creature with several tails is described. ...
I89 - People mistake a star or constellation that rises at night for the morning, go on a journey, lose th...
I90 - The character goes to the goal, following a ball of thread rolling in front of him. {The motive is n...
I91 - foot or around the base of a tree that connects the tiers of the universe or is gigantic and is cons...
I92 - A person who comes into contact with the rainbow in a certain way (who walks under it, drinks water ...
I92a - Anyone who jumps or steps over the rainbow will change his or her sex...
I92b - There is a treasure under the extremities of the rainbow...
I93 - The Milky Way is the spine, support, pillar of heaven or peace. ...
I94 - Pleiades are something full of holes. ...
I95 - Pleiades are a sieve or sieve for sifting agricultural products. See I95 motif. ...
I95a - Orion is a scale. ...
I95b - Orion is a rocker. ...
I95c - Orion's belt - a staff, a stick, three sticks, a rod, a crutch, etc....
I96 - The rainbow consists of blood or foreshadows war and death. ...
I97 - rainbow is an ungulate animal (horse, bull, goat, sheep). ...
I98a - Pleiades - chicken, hen with chickens, chickens, rarely a rooster. ...
I98b - Pleiades are ducks, wild duck's nest or egg. ...
I99 - The Pleiades are a group of boys or men, or a group of different people but predominantly males...
I100 - The Pleiades are a group of girls or women (with children)...
I100a - Pleiades are a woman or man with children, members of the same family. ...
I100b - Pleiades are a group of people of any gender and age. See i99 - i100a motives, cumulative data. ...
I100c - God turned her husband into a cuckoo, and his wife and children into Pleiades. ...
I100d - Stars are associated with goats. ...
I101 - The Big Dipper or several bright stars of another constellation are stakes, pillars that support the...
I102 - The Milky Way is a tree, a tree trail. ...
I103 - Sirius is associated with a dog or a wolf...
I104 - Stars are formed from body particles, fragments of a larger star (usually a month); stars (usually a...
I105 - One of the constellations is associated with the hand (with five fingers marked). ...
I106 - The Big Dipper is one anthropomorphic character, not a group of people. ...
I107 - Stars are nails hammered into the sky, stakes, or stars are nailed. ...
I108 - Pleiades are one character, not a group of people. ...
I109 - The Milky Way is the road on which the Sun and Moon travel. ...
I110 - Constellations are associated with agricultural tools or with people who are engaged in agricultural...
I110a - Orion (rare: other constellation) is a plough...
I110b - Orion is people or agricultural tools associated with harvesting or haymaking. ...
I111 - The land as a whole, or a mountain range, is the body of a crocodile, dragon, snake (eel). ...
I112 - A boat is a living creature with a mouth, a fish. ...
I113 - A pig or boar made of gold or with golden bristles is a precious item. (In ATU, “gold-bristled pig...
I114 - Creatures shake the ground when they learn that there are no more inhabitants on it, either to check...
I115a - In the same narrative or ritual context, Orion and the Pleiades are pitted against each other as a m...
I116 - The Milky Way is the border-line between seasons of the year or parts of the universe (the wet and t...
I117 - Spider person raises the hero to the sky, helps him or her to return back to earth or otherwise help...
I117a - bat helps the hero to descend to earth from a high cliff. ...
I118 - spider woman (less often an old spider) patronizes a hero or heroine, they live with her, the hero m...
I119 - Earthquakes cause inhabitants of the lower world; during earthquakes, they try to get to the surface...
I119a - Supernatural beings shake the earth because they think that no earth dwellers remained or wanting to...
I120 - Food and clothing can be extracted from the horn of a pet (ox, cow, goat). ...
I120a - Entering into the ear of an animal (usually a horse or cow) and going back, the character becomes ha...
I120b - The character pulls food, clothes, and other valuables from the ear of an animal (most often a horse...
I121 - Constellations (usually Ursa Major and Ursa Minor) are considered as two identical, paired objects. ...
I122 - Pleiades are a beehive, a nest, a cluster of bees or wasps. ...
I123 - Altair with a small neighboring star from Orel or Vega with the same weak star are considered to app...
I124 - The Big Dipper is considered a boat. ...
I125 - Hyades (sometimes possibly the Pleiades or Orion) are the jaw or severed head of a large animal or a...
I126 - The Ursa Major or other circumpolar constellation is a stretcher carrying a dead or sick person, a b...
I127 - Big Bear - bed, couch. ...
I128 - Big Dipper - bucket, scoop. ...
I129 - The rainy season is associated with the appearance of the Heron constellation in the sky. ...
I130 - One of the constellations is a hunting or fishing net, and a seine. ...
I131 - Every person's life corresponds to a thread, when the thread breaks, the person dies. ...
I132 - The deer rests its horns against the sky, and a person climbs them into the upper world. ...
I132a - The girl sits on the swing and they take her to the sky. ...
I132b - A girl comes to the Sun to become his wife, but at the last moment she experiences a metamorphosis (...
I133 - Star objects in different parts of the sky are associated with separate parts (including garments, j...
I133a - There is a constellation that stands for a bird and corresponds to several major constellations of E...
I134 - On the axis of the Milky Way, you can see the figure of a creature with a long neck (llama, emu, nan...
I135 - The sky (the Milky Way) is the skin of an animal. ...
I136 - rolling wheel (which the character turns into) is a weapon. ...
I137 - One of the constellations is associated with a footwear, usually with (worn) bast shoes. ...
I138 - glass mountain (tower, bridge) is referred to as an unusual (hard-to-reach) locus. ...
I139 - Two (less often three) men or women are at a distance from each other, but they regularly throw some...
I140 - the night sky, you can see figures of a deer and a jaguar; these images are connected in a plot. ...
I141 - A stick is a tool to initiate processes which results have no rational explanation...
J2 - husband or lover is a tree (temporarily turning into a person). ...
J3 - A woman conceives a son or twins in a way she doesn't understand; the reason is that when she sits o...
J4 - Heroes avenge the death (capture) of their father, uncle or grandfather, but not their mother or bot...
J5 - Two or more brothers (friends) play the role of the victim. The avenger hero is the son of one of th...
J6 - A pregnant woman is killed (and eaten). Twins are taken out of her womb, who are usually also meant ...
J6a - A pregnant woman with her young daughter ends up in cannibals. Cannibals find and eat a woman, but h...
J7 - A woman or girl goes to her husband (lover) or relatives, or a man goes to pick up a bride. She or h...
J7a - A girl (less often a boy) brings lunch to her father or brothers who work in the field (in the fores...
J8 - A woman or girl goes in search of her husband (groom, etc.). Bird feathers left on a trail, at a cro...
J9 - Before they are born, babies speak from their mother's womb, showing her the way. ...
J10 - A woman loses her way after being bitten by a wasp (or bee, ant, snake). She claps her stomach (eith...
J11 - son from his mother's womb asks to pick flowers or fruits for him (usually when a woman tears flower...
J12 - A girl or two sisters travel, usually looking for a suitable, gone or far away groom or husband. On ...
J12a - A girl or two sisters go to an old woman inviting her or them to marry her son. It's actually a worm...
J12b - groom or husband is a fragrant Honey or a skilled honey miner. See motive J12. ...
J12c - The girl meets her fiance at a dance and then follows in his footsteps. See motive J12. ...
J12d - After a girl marries a worthy fiancé, the rejected applicant or his relatives kill the rival. See m...
J12j - A girl or sisters come to a false fiancé who plays the role of a jester in the chief's house. See m...
J12k - Desired and unwanted marriage partners live in the same house. An unwanted person, a servant or juni...
J12l - The killer pretends to mourn the victim with everyone else. The deception is revealed, the murderer ...
J12m - A woman or two sisters come to two men and become the wives of one of them. The other one kills or t...
J13 - Not one woman, but two sisters (or more, but only two have an important role in the story) wander an...
J14 - To find the desired man, a woman goes to the sound of music or singing; she usually distinguishes im...
J15 - Going in search of a husband, relatives, etc., a woman, girl, or children accidentally go the wrong ...
J15a - Going on a journey (usually in search of a groom, husband, relatives), a woman finds herself in a ho...
J15b - Wandering, a woman finds herself in the house of a frog or toad. See motive J15. ...
J16 - The character dies because being forced to look for insects in another's head, refuses to bite throu...
J17 - Instead of lice, the character's hair contains other creatures, or he pretends to live in his hair. ...
J18 - A pregnant woman or woman with a baby falls from the sky. She or her daughter is dying or undergoing...
J18a - cannibal eats a woman, enters her house. A woman's daughters (daughter and son, one daughter) run aw...
J19 - While a husband or brother is hunting, an evil spirit comes to his wife or sister; he kills her or t...
J19a - When a woman is alone, a demonic character comes to her. He says that in order to do certain things,...
J19b - An evil spirit kills a woman by burning through her body. ...
J19c - A demonic character comes to a woman and pulls out her tongue. She dies (and comes back to life when...
J20 - While a husband or brother is hunting, an evil spirit comes to his wife or sister; he kills or maims...
J21 - Gods, human ancestors, and founders of dynasties are born from eggs. ...
J22a - Two men, or a brother and sister, emerge from one body or embryo cut in half, or the second comes fr...
J22b - A woman is cut or torn in half, two new ones are emerging. ...
J22c - There is a demonic character in the form of Siamese twins - two half-merged women. ...
J22d - Foreigners or animals come from an animal cut in half. ...
J22e - The second character emerges from the last of the first. ...
J23 - People in general or older brothers (siblings, older sister) disappear one after another. A woman ra...
J23a - A woman cries, the discharge from her nose (her tear) turns into a boy, he grows up, defeats strong ...
J23b - To defeat the monster, the young man (twins) prepares spears in advance and leave them along the int...
J23c - To make sure that an enemy is actually dead, an insect or bird enters his body from one end and come...
J24 - The powdered hero respawns. ...
J25 - Heroes (one, two, or one out of two), while still babies or foetuses, disappear or are thrown (often...
J25a - Mother dies or is murdered. A baby or newborn in her womb is buried with her. He comes out of the gr...
J25a1 - Woman dies but remains but remains imperishable and gives birth to a boy. He is found in her grave a...
J25b - A pregnant woman dies and is buried. Her spirit comes out of the grave to bring food to the baby. Th...
J26 - The character or egg from which he is born is found in a river, lake, sea; little heroes emerge from...
J26a - Among the children of a woman or two women living together are a boy and a puppy, or a woman was giv...
J27 - A little boy (several babies) was thrown away, born to a dead mother, lives in a river, in a forest,...
J27a - One of the babies is thrown out and lives in the river, in the forest, etc.; the other stays in the ...
J27b - baby is thrown into a lake or river and goes ashore from time to time. In addition to his earthly pa...
J28a - When asking how one of his parents died, the hero receives a number of false answers. He often expos...
J28b - When a woman (usually a hero's mother) is hiding the truth about his father, mother, brothers or bri...
J29 - The murdered parents themselves inform their children about the circumstances of their death. ...
J30 - Before heroes defeat or run away from antagonists, they find or receive the victim's remains or prop...
J31 - A young hero obtains and uses weapons or other powerful objects which belonged to his murdered fathe...
J32 - At night, someone regularly steals animals (horses, sheep, etc.) or crops (apples, hay, peas, flower...
J32a - When a person dies, he tells him to spend the night at his grave or bring something to the grave. ...
J32a1 - Every night somebody tramples down the grain field, steals hay, etc. The hero discovers that horses ...
J32b - To have time to do what he wants, the hero extends the night, changing the character's behavior, on ...
J32c - At night, a demonic character comes to the grave of the deceased, intending to harm him. ...
J32d - The girl will be received by someone who, on horseback or otherwise, quickly reaches a hard-to-reach...
J32e - hero manages to establish who is kidnapping newborn foals. ...
J32f - While on guard, the hero finds out who is stealing fruits (usually apples) from the garden. ...
J33 - A boy, boy, or two children live in the older character's house. In order to provoke a certain react...
J33a - A boy, boy or two children live in an old woman's house. They kill her husband, a human or a big ani...
J34 - After killing a dangerous enemy, the heroes scarecrow him, scaring his family. ...
J35 - A tree frog kills or neutralizes a demon or beast chasing heroes. ...
J36 - turtle drags the hero's parents under water. ...
J37 - Having turned into a powerful bird or created one, the hero lifts into the air and carries his oppon...
J38 - mighty bird pierces its claws into a huge aquatic creature. The claws are stuck in his body. The bir...
J39 - An antagonist makes a woman his slave. Other characters secretly come to her, killing a small animal...
J40 - powerful creature living in the sky takes a person or many people, or a person's head. The hero (usu...
J40b - After the hero comes back after a long absence and finds his parents enslaved, he tells them to demo...
J41 - The hero leaves for a long time When he returns, his relative or relative does not immediately belie...
J41a - The son returns and finds a mother who was humiliated and tortured in his absence. A son turns his m...
J41b - The son returns, finds a mother who was humiliated and tortured in his absence, burns the torturer a...
J41c - The character is going to fight a dangerous opponent. Along the way, he is offered tasks that he per...
J41d - To test his iron cudgel, sword or the like, strong man throws them into the air and catches (lets th...
J42 - The character creates a dry passage along the bottom of the reservoir, and after it passes, the wate...
J43 - To destroy antagonists, the hero creates an edible bait for them, usually a fruit tree on the other ...
J44 - The hero lures the enemy to a shaky bridge. The enemy falls into the water, into the abyss (see moti...
J45 - The character stretches out his leg (duffle: arm) or neck in the form of a bridge over a water barri...
J46 - Antagonists die when they fall into the water from a shore, from a bridge, or try to swim across a w...
J47 - The character climbs to heaven on a rope, ladder, etc. or climbs a tree or rock, or descends from th...
J47a - Bob or another plant with edible fruits grows to the sky, the character climbs it. ...
J47a1 - Person gets into a house inhabited by the goats. He secretly eats the food found there but is ultima...
J47b - The character runs away from the pursuer, a strong rope (chain, etc.) is lowered from the sky. A rot...
J48 - The character climbs into the sky or descends from heaven to earth on a rope. The parrot cuts the ro...
J49 - The wife and/or sister of the Month unsuccessfully tries to climb into heaven or reaches him, but re...
J50 - The father or mother of twin heroes dies or is killed. An attempt to revive the deceased fails. ...
J50a - A mother dies when her sons push or hug her. ...
J50b - father (alone or with his brother) is only partially resurrected and is unable to live among people ...
J51 - The character is dismembered or eaten; he is revived from his remains, but because one of the bones ...
J51a - To climb a rock or tower, you need to stick bones into it and climb them like stairs. ...
J51a1 - To get an object out of a hard-to-reach place, the girl tells her to dismember (or just cut off her ...
J51a2 - A girl must get into an inaccessible place using the chicken bones. Because a bone is lost or their ...
J51b - month was eaten or died and the body decomposed. It is being revived, but a small part (bone) is mis...
J52 - A character with more pronounced predator habits insidiously kills another who is associated with a ...
J52a - A bear or bear insidiously kills its companion, neighbor, etc., which is associated with a herbivoro...
J52b - girl, young woman, or children associated with hares (rabbits) are victorious heroes or successful t...
J53 - deer or deer fall prey to an antagonist (usually a large predatory beast). The victim's children tak...
J53a - The character invites someone else to play. He follows the rules, but the initiator of the game does...
J53a1 - The victim’s children kill the murderer’s children luring them in a place where the die of smoke...
J53b - Two women live together, each one has children. When they are outdoors, one of them kills another an...
J53c - Two co-wives of female companions live together, both have children. Once when they go to work outdo...
J53c1 - Two women live together, both have children. One of them kills and (later) eats another. The murdere...
J54 - Two women live together and both have children. One of them leaves the house with the other, kills h...
J54a - Two women, both or one of whom are animal characters, live together and have children. One of them k...
J54b - The antagonist's son and hero are half-brothers or half-brothers (uncle and nephew; brothers). When ...
J55 - While traveling, the hero meets characters who, without recognizing him, say they are expecting some...
J56 - A son or sons come to see their father. He tests them to see if they are really his children. ...
J56a - Brother heroes turn into pots or pans, but only the older one can sit on fire long enough. ...
J57 - A virgin girl is impregnated by the Sun and gives birth to a son or twin boys. When her son (or the ...
J58 - Characters fire arrows (darts) that pierce each other and form a chain. They usually take it to the ...
J58a - To cross the river, each of the three people uses their own magic method. ...
J58b - Using a chain of arrows, the sky or sun is pulled lower or moved higher, or a hole is made in the sk...
J58c - A chain of arrows forms a bridge over a water barrier. ...
J59 - To get to the sky, you have to fire an arrow that will pierce the sky. See motif J58; see J59A: A ma...
J59a - After firing an arrow, a person flies it, behind it or in front of it, or sends another person on a ...
J59b - To revive the deceased, the character shoots an arrow into the sky (it is assumed that the deceased,...
J59c - Person revives the dead beating the bones of corpse with the whip...
J59d - Person revives the dead stepping or jumping over his remains...
J60 - A woman conceives twins from two different fathers. ...
J61 - The character has the ability to move or hover in the air like a feather or a feather. ...
J62 - The character turns those who come to him into inanimate objects (usually stones). (In many cases, t...
J62a - The character turns people who come to him into plants (trees, flowers). The hero (heroine) remains ...
J62b - The character turns people who come to him into animals. Thanks to the hero, they're disgraced. ...
J62b1 - The sorceress who lives an island transforms men into animals...
J62c - To kill a young man, an antagonist makes his sister (rarely: himself) want to possess wonderful obje...
J63 - Enemies came and tied up my husband. The wife agreed to live with a new one, the old one is connecte...
J64 - Without coming into contact with fire, without burning, the character rises into the sky or crosses ...
J65 - After the enemies attack, a woman and her daughter remain. She rejects the matchmaking of animal gro...
J66 - The character cuts, gnaws through bow strings and other straps in advance, and holes boats, making i...
J67 - At night, the character puts light pebbles or shells over his eyes. Thinking that the character's ey...
J68 - Characters who have been chasing an animal for a long time see fresher droppings on the trail and fi...
J69 - Person is killed (with the cold weapon, with water of death) and then revived. Another person asks t...
K1c - A man is marooned on an islet, a rock but survives thanks to helpful birds and animals. The next tim...
K1d - The wife's brothers are trying to destroy the hero, leaving him on an island. ...
K1e - Person is marooned on an islet or on another side of a sea or wide river...
K1f - A man maroons another because of jealousy or because he plans to take hold of his wife...
K1g - The hero turns into a deer or creates a deer to care for a relative who sent him into a trap. ...
K1h - The character is inside a tree trunk or inside a rock; someone frees him by making a hole from the o...
K1i - A tree, reed, or vine grows near a rock, at the bottom of a hole, or in the lower world, along which...
K1j - An abandoned person turns into a bird and returns home faster than someone who left him. ...
K2 - The hero climbs or descends a ladder, rope, pole, etc. Rope, etc. is torn or cut off. Usually, anoth...
K2a - Hero is sent to the lower world though a well, precipice, etc. After he obtains valuables (young wom...
K2a1 - demon takes away a noble girl. An ordinary person accidentally witnesses a kidnapping or accidentall...
K2a2 - monster rushes past the young man, taking the princess away. The young man picks up the princess's l...
K2a3 - To maroon hero on a mountain, his companions destroy the rope or chain by which he climbed there or ...
K2b - The pastimes or only names of the hero’s companions are unusual and different but their specific q...
K3 - The hero climbs a tree or rock to get bird eggs, chicks, fruits, honey, etc. He can't go down becaus...
K4 - The character climbs a tree or rock to get a bird, bird eggs, chicks, climbs into a bird's nest; com...
K5 - To trap the hero and send him far away, the enemy makes fake birds from valuable materials (bodily s...
K6 - From tears, snot, urine, saliva, chewed substance, a vine or rope emerges. See K1A motif. ...
K7 - A person compares a particular object to the genitals of another's wife. The offended takes revenge....
K8a - The character enters the womb of an aquatic creature, or into the womb of a giant creature whose app...
K8aa - A huge bird swallows people. The hero kills her, freeing the swallowed ones, or, if swallowed by him...
K8b - The raven ends up in the whale's womb; the woman inside asks him not to touch a whale organ (usually...
K8c - The character enters the womb of an ordinary terrestrial animal, kills it from within (K952) and/or ...
K8c1 - The tiny little man was first accidentally swallowed by a large herbivorous animal, and then carried...
K8c2 - The mouse is swallowed by a large land animal and comes out, cutting it from the inside. ...
K8c3 - One (zoomorphic) character refuses to use any part of another's body other than the one he uses to k...
K8c4 - A small animal (most often a bird, mouse or porcupine) or (rarely) a tiny little man lets a large un...
K8c5 - Does a zoomorphic character no larger than a fox let a bear swallow himself and kill him, strife fro...
K8d - Person (often an animal-person) gets into the belly of anthropomorphic being. He kills it from the i...
K8e - Person or animal gets into another being through its anus...
K8f - A swallowed person discovers a live deer in the monster's womb. See K8A motif. ...
K9 - The heavenly leader (deity), accusing or suspected a woman of infidelity, affiliation with an animal...
K9a - The punished character is hung on a chain or metal thread between heaven and earth. ...
K10 - A monstrous bird (bat) attacks people, heroes fight against it. See K10A - K10G motifs. ...
K10a - Heroes kill a dangerous bird; during or before battle, they hide in a shelter (hut, cage, vessel, ba...
K10b - A huge bird carries a cage, bag or other container in which people are located to its nest. See moti...
K10c - The hero (twins) hangs around the animal's blood-filled intestines. The bird pierces them with its c...
K10d - A flying monster takes the hero to a distant island. The hero kills the monster and uses a boat, bri...
K10e - In the bird's habitat, the hero finds people kidnapped by it; helps them return home. ...
K10f - The character turns the children of a flying monster into ordinary eagles or owls. ...
K10g - Once in the nest of a giant bird on a tree or rock, a person descends to the ground with the help of...
K10h - The bird takes the woman or boy to its nest, supplies food, but does not let go. The captive or pris...
K10i - The tree opens its trunk and hides a hero running away from the cannibal bird. The next monster hold...
K11 - Brothers (brother and sister) kill a monstrous bird. Her eyes turn into heavenly bodies (for the Oax...
K11a - The feathers of a (huge) bird that are torn out turn into current birds or humans emerge from them. ...
K11a1 - Pierces of flesh or feathers of monstrous/unusual bird turn into common birds (or into their plumage...
K11b - bones of a huge bird turn into reeds or bamboo for making arrows or sarbacans. ...
K12 - The hero returns the woman that the opponent or rival tried to take away from him. ...
K12a - unrecognized hero comes to a place where his fiancée or wife must be given to another person or tur...
K12b - The hero enters a world outside the human world and marries there. The wife allows the hero to visit...
K13a - character's leg (rare: both legs) is cut off, bitten off, or torn off. The character rises to the sk...
K13b - A man crosses a pond on the back of a caiman. He bites off his leg. A cripple experiences metamorpho...
K13c - The cannibal's daughter takes revenge on her husband for the death of her mother, she manages to cut...
K13d - A group of boys reaches the sky, the last leg being cut off or torn off. ...
K14 - A person receives or buys simple advice, the meaning of which is not clear at first (traveling with ...
K14a - antagonist tells you to kill the one who comes first to the appointed place in the morning. The hero...
K14b - A person is advised not to do anything until he is urged to do so. He unwisely offers to use his kni...
K14c - Returning from a long absence and seeing signs that there is another man in the house, the man think...
K14d - To test his wife (friend, member of his household), a man pretends to commit a crime or his behavior...
K14e - Sons don't care about their elderly father (rare: daughter-in-law doesn't care about their mother-in...
K15 - The woman swears that she did not get along with anyone but (her husband and) a dirty beggar. Others...
K15a - The hero quietly replaces the weapon or magic tool of a powerful character with an unusable fake. Tr...
K15b - By quietly swapping vessels with living and dead (giving and taking strength) water (rarely: oil, et...
K15c - The owner of stone (ice) clothes kills people. By hiding or changing his clothes, the hero kills him...
K16 - Taking the form of a bird, bat, insect, small animal, fish, a man lets himself be caught by a girl o...
K16a - In an effort to show that he is a good hunter, a man regularly walks in front of the girl, pretendin...
K17 - A male character in the form of a bird penetrates a girl or magically or imperceptibly makes her pre...
K18 - A boy is born whose father or mother is unknown. He chooses a true father or mother, who usually has...
K18a - The boy's father is the man whose bow or arrow he chooses. See motif K18. ...
K18b - Men or women consistently approach or hold a little boy in their arms. A parent is someone or someon...
K18c - The boy's father will be recognized as the man in whose arms he describes himself. See motif K18. ...
K18d - young man lets go or save a fish (a frog, a snake, a supernatural creature), it fulfills his wishes ...
K19a - A man maries a star-woman...
K19b - A male star marries an earthly woman. ...
K19c - A person brings home a small creature with whom he makes love at night. A person's mother, sister, o...
K19d - Once in the sky, the star's husband suffers from the cold. He freezes to death or dies when he touch...
K19e - Returning from heaven to earth, a woman or two sisters run into a wolverine man trying to master the...
K19f - star or many stars are coming down from the sky to work on the field. See K19B motif. ...
K19g - One star is an old man, the other is young; both stars differ in brilliance or color, but it is impo...
K20 - Looking at the sky at night, a man or woman wants to marry a star or Month (kuchin: having a star as...
K21 - A girl goes to heaven and gets married there. ...
K21a - A celestial marries an earthly woman. She wants to return to earth and secretly descends from her hu...
K22 - Different from (ordinary) humans, inhabitants of a faraway country from time to time fight enemies o...
K22a - Birds or other creatures which not dangerous for common people attack dwarfs who live in another wor...
K22aa - A person enters a country whose inhabitants are birds that live with us in the summer, and when they...
K22b - The inhabitants of another world are being attacked by some enemies. Man helps to defeat them, becau...
K22c - Inhabitants of another world who are attacked by enemies that are dangerous for them, but not danger...
K23 - Birds attack people in another world or a person who is trapped in another world. See motif K22. ...
K23a - Birds use their feathers as arrows, or falling feathers cover their victims' mouths. ...
K24 - Women who have magical powers and usually come from another world (from the sky, from under the wate...
K24a - A man, who is usually inhuman, hides clothes or sits on the clothes of an ordinary earthly girl. To ...
K24b - The magical wife gets her wings back and flies away after she pretends that the clothes they hide fr...
K24c - A young man comes to an old man (less often an old woman), who teaches him to get a magical wife by ...
K25 - A person catches, grabs, meets a woman associated with the upper world (a bird, a heavenly maiden, a...
K25a1 - A magical wife leaves her earthly husband when she finds her clothes that he hid (often feathers if ...
K25a2 - An anthropomorphic character flies away or tries to fly away, attaching feathers dropped by birds fl...
K25a3 - The magical bird-wife flies away when she makes herself new feather clothes from feathers collected ...
K25a4 - A man (rarely a woman) is at the mercy of a water-chthonic creature (usually sirens, fish, sea monst...
K25a4a - A young woman is at the mercy of a water dweller, and if she goes to the ground, she is chained. To ...
K25a5 - The older brother is a hunter, the younger brother (rarely a sister) is at home. When he learns that...
K25a6 - A woman from another world agrees to live with an earthly man, but leaves him after learning about h...
K25a7 - The elder brother is a hunter, the younger one is a housekeeper. When the elder brother gets to catc...
K25b - A woman climbs a tree trying to catch a porcupine and finds herself in the sky. ...
K25c - Digging roots, collecting mollusks, etc., a woman finds a baby. He grows up, fights against dangerou...
K25d - digging a root, a person penetrates the sky or earth, sees the underlying world, and goes down there...
K25e - People in general, a certain ethnic or tribal group, or a ruling dynasty are considered descendants ...
K26 - When you go to or through a hole, the character sees the world below him (usually he sees the ground...
K26a - The hole in the sky is covered with a flat stone. Pushing it away, the character sees the ground. Se...
K27 - The character receives tasks that are deadly or can only be completed with supernatural abilities or...
K27a - Challenge: spend the night in the cold (the antagonist tries to destroy the hero in this way). See m...
K27b - The challenge: smoke a huge or poisonous pipe or breathe in clouds of toxic smoke. See motive K27. ...
K27c - The challenge: to stay alive when in contact with piercing, cutting, and pressing tools. See motive ...
K27d - Challenge: stay alive in a room full of predatory, poisonous, and other dangerous creatures. See mot...
K27e - The character is asked to eat or drink an unusually large amount or poison. ...
K27f - A powerful character requires the hero to get a woman. See motive K27. ...
K27f1 - The character builds a bridge (usually from precious materials) in an incredibly short time. ...
K27f2 - The girl requires the groom to get the same pair of shoes (or other items) as hers. These items eith...
K27f3 - The character must quickly get enough feathers to fill a feather bed or pillow with them. ...
K27g - character is ordered to bathe in (hot) milk, boiling water, jump into the fire, he is unharmed, and ...
K27g1 - The character must quickly clear the stable or stable from the manure that has accumulated there ove...
K27g2 - The character must cover the house with a roof made of bird feathers. ...
K27g3 - To knock down all the trees in the forest, a person knocks down one (slightly touching him with an a...
K27g4 - The character must carry out all the field work in an unthinkably short time and present the product...
K27g5 - A person tries or should try to cut or dig with a wooden tool instead of an iron one. ...
K27h - The hero must cut out an image of the character's head that he never shows. It usually adorns a wood...
K27h1 - The character is tasked with bringing the fruits of a tree that is difficult to reach. ...
K27hh - The character is instructed to quickly separate small particles of different varieties (usually seed...
K27i - The task: to drain a large pond. ...
K27k - A contest: to dive deep or for a long time...
K27l - The task: get an object from the bottom of the reservoir. See motive K27. ...
K27l1 - By voluntarily testing himself, the character allows himself to freeze into the ice and cannot free ...
K27m - The task is to kill and bring in an animal of a certain (often unusual) color or shape. See motive K...
K27n - A man must fulfill difficult tasks (to win competition) to receive the permission for a marriage...
K27n1 - character who gives a hero tasks that are impossible for an ordinary person (putting the hero to dif...
K27n3a - A character who offers difficult tasks or puts him to the test is associated with the sun, month, th...
K27n3a1 - In course of his matchmaking, hero comes into conflict with persons (more than two) who embody the e...
K27n3b - Person who gives difficult tasks or tests to the hero or heroine lives in the sky but is not associa...
K27n3c - character who offers a hero difficult tasks or puts him to the test is associated with a terrestrial...
K27n3c1 - Inhabitants of the village of the polar bears who are relations of the hero’s wife give him diffic...
K27n3c2 - The task-giver is the bear who is the hero’s father-in-law...
K27nn - Someone from the entourage of a powerful character seeks to lime the hero and persuades him to give ...
K27o - The confrontation between heroes and antagonists takes place in the form of a ball game. ...
K27o1 - The character plays with a severed human head like a ball. ...
K27o2 - To kill the hero, his enemies involve him into a game with a dangerous ball (or ice, stone, bone, ir...
K27o3 - Two groups of participants compete in fulfilling difficult tasks or are engaged into the game in whi...
K27p - The antagonist sends the hero to the place where he is attacked by dangerous creatures. The hero kil...
K27p1 - The enemy tells the hero to kill or tame a dangerous animal, or not to kill a specific animal while ...
K27q - The task is to get milk from a wild animal or milk owned by a dangerous creature. See motive K27. ...
K27q1 - The hero is sent to get a musical instrument, usually samogudas. ...
K27r - The assignment giver requires you to bring an item or message from the...
K27r1 - antagonist believes that the hero was burned, but returned safely from the dead, so he orders to bur...
K27r2 - The task is to bring objects (fruits, wood, water, etc.) that perform actions peculiar to humans (si...
K27s - Competition: running, racing. See motive K27. ...
K27ss - A strong man must overtake a woman, often an old woman. This fails or is difficult. ...
K27t - Competition: climb a pole. See motive K27. ...
K27u - The task is to hide (the hero finds the antagonist, or the antagonist cannot find the hero). See mot...
K27u1 - Someone demands that the baby be born the morning after conception or speak immediately after birth....
K27u2 - The powerful character tells you to find out where the tumbleweed is heading or what news from him. ...
K27v - The character must hit the bird with an arrow or stone. (Cf. K27M motif, where it's not the shooter'...
K27v1 - The character must hit the needle with an arrow (in the eye of a needle). ...
K27v2 - The character must hit an object or creature made of copper with an arrow. ...
K27v3 - The character must shoot an arrow through a small ring or several rings. (The main materials were id...
K27w - Task-giver asks to bring him dangerous being or object possessed by a moster or deity. Hero fulfills...
K27x - A man marries a woman from another world; a wife goes to her own world, a man follows her; there a w...
K27x1 - After receiving a difficult task (usually: to bring an object or creature that does not have specifi...
K27x2 - The character can get an egg or chick (and put them back) from under the bird in the nest, change th...
K27x3 - The power holder seeks to take over the wife or fiancée of a person with a lower social position an...
K27x3a - When the hero goes to fulfill a difficult task, his magic wife gives him her towel or handkerchief a...
K27x4 - character is told to climb a tree (pole, mountain, etc.), holding a full open vessel in his hand wit...
K27x5 - When you go in search of a woman or wonderful objects, a person consistently comes to characters of ...
K27x6 - Going in search of a marriage partner, the hero or heroine finds himself in the incarnations of star...
K27x7 - Along the way, a person meets characters who have power over animals (birds, fish). They call animal...
K27x8 - Only a frog (toad) knows the way to an unattainable object for ordinary people that the hero is look...
K27x9 - To bring an object from the sea bottom...
K27xy - Several men (animals), each of whom can do something better than others, together complete the diffi...
K27y - The hero is sent or, knowing the danger, goes to get various (at least two) materials for making a b...
K27y1 - The character thinks or pretends that the arrowheads should be made of bark, coal, grass, etc. mater...
K27yy - To get a feather, chick, bark, fruit, etc., the hero must climb a tree or rock where he is in danger...
K27yy1 - Hero brings a feather (feathers) of a dangerous bird...
K27yy2 - Hero is sent to bring a nestling of a dangerous bird...
K27yy3 - Hero is sent to bring fruits which grow on a tree that is dangerous to those who come near it...
K27yy4 - Hero is sent to get bark of a tree that is dangerous to those who come near it...
K27z - A character gains power over another by winning a game of chance or intellectual play (not in a spor...
K27z1 - The assistant teaches you how to steal the right object, but not to take anything else (take a bird,...
K27z2 - A noble woman is forced to leave home, gives birth to a son and is separated from him. The young man...
K27z2a - Having noticed a woman's pregnancy, her relatives or relatives accuse her of debauchery, because, ac...
K27z2a1 - The husband leaves his wife without getting along with her. The wife visits her husband incognito an...
K27z2b - difficult relationship between a simple girl and a prince leads to the fact that on the wedding nigh...
K27z2c - After marrying a poor girl, the prince leaves her locked up. She turns out to be smarter than he is....
K27z2d - male bird (sparrow, pigeon, etc.) abandoned the female with the chicks, and then claims the rights t...
K27z2e - When meeting (sometimes not in their original form), a young man or girl takes some items (jewelry) ...
K27z2f - A poor girl buys a doll (goose) that defecates in gold. When the neighbors took the doll, it only st...
K27z3 - The character taught a cat (monkey, dog) to hold a candle (lamp) or extinguish it at a signal. Seein...
K27z4 - The character always wins bets or beats others thanks to a trained cat (mouse, rat) that holds (or t...
K27z4a - cripple claims that the visitor's father took his leg (eye) and did not return it. The person's wife...
K27z4b - The husband leaves, meets the deceiver and loses to him everything he has. The wife comes disguised ...
K27z5 - Two men agree to marry children if one has a son and the other has a daughter. The girl's parents do...
K27z6 - After becoming a victim of injustice and suffering, a young woman talks about it to certain inanimat...
K27z7 - The character promises to comply with the request if the other finds out a secret that causes someon...
K27z7a - A man is going to kill someone who found out why he brutally punished his ex-wife. ...
K27z8 - A person makes a riddle that can only be solved by knowing the circumstances in which he was in. ...
K27z9 - A (dried) fish (water-spirit, satyr, etc.) laughs, smiles or spits because a man disguised as a woma...
K27zy - A young man (girl) lives in the house of a cannibal (witch). To destroy him or her, the cannibal tel...
K27zz - A person marries unaware that his wife is a cannibal/witch; she stalks former wives (often blinds or...
K27zz1 - Several wives were thrown into the dungeon (banished), each gave birth to a child, but only one mana...
K27zz2 - Several wives of one man (several sisters) go blind - the eldest in both eyes and the youngest one. ...
K27zz3 - father or stepmother (a werewolf) push/encloses female sisters (the girl and her maids) in a hole. T...
K27zz4 - The arrogant prince (the son of a merchant) beats his wife every day (he marries on the condition th...
K28 - The young hero's maternal uncle or father (or grandfather, if he replaces a father who is not mentio...
K29a - The hero demonstrates his magical abilities or cunning, staying alive in a hot bath, stove, fire, an...
K29b - hero is asked to climb into a hole, which is immediately covered with earth or into which a pole, st...
K29c - They hope to destroy the hero by knocking down a tree on him or tying him to a tree. He comes alive,...
K29d - To catch an animal or bird, water in the pond is replaced with wine, honey, etc., and an intoxicated...
K30 - A flying creature takes a woman away. The kidnapper is killed and/or the woman is running away from ...
K30a - The first ancestor's wife flies away with vultures (usually voluntarily, after she has already cheat...
K30b - A girl or a woman is prohibited to go outdoors and is abducted by the flying creature as soon as she...
K31 - The character makes wood into a marine mammal or fish. It kills his enemies or drags them into the o...
K32 - A man does not notice that another woman, an evil spirit, or a trickster man is replacing his wife o...
K32a - A man is carrying his wife or daughter. Another woman or demonic character replaces her when the man...
K32b - A man's mother takes the form of his wife to take her place. ...
K32b1 - man's mother-in-law takes the form of her daughter to take her place. See motif K32. ...
K32c - The liar takes the place of a real wife, and the real one becomes an owl. See motif K32. ...
K32d - As a result of the antagonist's machinations, a noble girl (young woman) or boy (boy) is turned into...
K32e - A negative character or locus is opposed to one or two positive characters like wood and gold and si...
K32f - A woman or girl raises a bird of prey, which brings her food and fire. This usually happens after an...
K32g - antagonist is executed by tying him to a horse (camel, bull) that drags him along the ground or tear...
K32g1 - The culprit is offered a choice of items that have utilitarian value (often forty, seven, three, etc...
K32h - antagonist is executed after being buried alive in the ground. ...
K32h1 - antagonist is executed by putting her in a barrel of nails and letting her down the mountain or by t...
K32h2 - A man executes his wife, leaving her to be eaten by ants. ...
K32h3 - antagonist is executed by burning him alive. (Episodes in which burning a character is not a punishm...
K32i - The girl finds the body of a young man who shows no signs of life and must sit next to him for a cer...
K32j - After learning from a young man that he has a beautiful sister, the king wants to marry her. The bri...
K32k - The false wife who acquired guise and place of the real one is a smelling bug or a grub...
K32l - The ruler gives horses (cows) to his subjects for fattening. Only the heroine returns her well-fed. ...
K33 - A woman is turned into an animal or pushed into water, into the lower world, or she herself is force...
K33a - Young siblings (usually brother and sister) leave home. One of them (rarely: several brothers), acci...
K33a1 - woman thrown into a well (into a pond, into a hole, etc.) gives birth to a child (twins, triplets) t...
K33a1a - A woman who was thrown into the water is swallowed by a fish (whale) but ultimately saved...
K33a2 - brother takes his sister to her fiance in a boat. The sister can't hear her brother's words. The wit...
K33a3 - A woman, turned into a turtle because of her rival's machinations, tries to establish contact with h...
K33a4 - A woman, turned into a medium-sized forest animal (lynx, she-wolf, vazhenka) because of her rival's ...
K33a5 - A woman who has become a duck (goose) because of her rival's machinations tries to establish contact...
K33a6 - kid (lamb, gazelle, etc.) runs up to the pond into which his mistress was pushed and says that they ...
K33a7 - After the death of her mother, a small girl suggests her father to marry another woman who is her te...
K33a8 - The heroine’s rival transforms her into a dove. The dove makes attempts to contact her children or...
K33b - The girl goes with her friends to the forest, to the river; everyone returns home, and she has to st...
K33c - A young man gets a girl inside a fruit or flower. ...
K33c1 - Thrown into the water, the character is embodied in a flower (usually a lotus). ...
K33d - A man discovers that a beautiful girl is hiding in the guise of an ugly mess or under the skin of an...
K33d1 - The young man does not know that a beautiful girl is hiding inside an object brought into his house....
K33e - Newborn babies disappear (die) one after another, but are returned to their wife or husband when the...
K33f - The character must fill one container (pool, stream) with honey and the other with butter (milk, etc...
K33g - person who has eaten a fruit (leaf, etc.) grows horns (long nose, etc.) or becomes an animal, and th...
K33h - A person finds a magic object that fulfills any desire. This item has been stolen. It is returned by...
K33h1 - The hero’s wife (mother, servant) does not know about the magic qualities of an object in their ho...
K34 - The character puts others on a swing and, rocking, throws them (or threatens to throw them) into the...
K35 - The deceiver pretends to be a hero in order to take his position (to take possession of his woman). ...
K35a - character who demonstrates extraordinary abilities in obtaining food or fighting enemies agrees to g...
K35a1 - Once on a journey, a person (often against the advice of his horse) picks up a precious pen. After l...
K35a2 - A man kills an animal with glowing skin. After learning about this, the powerful character gives him...
K35a3 - To get the privileges that the hero has, the deceiver manages to change clothes and names with him, ...
K35a4 - To get rid of the hero and take his position, the deceiver pushes him into the sea or leaves him on ...
K35a5 - The powerful character leaves a sign (letter) for the little boy that when the boy grows up and come...
K35a6 - Person finds an objects (usually a feather) with which he illuminates his room...
K35a7 - Person finds a feather that has a quality to make alive beings healthy and handsome...
K35b - The hero gives rivals the food that the king sent them all for, but what rivals buy turns out to be ...
K35c - Dev (Azhdaha, king of the sea) did not kill the man who came down to him, as people expected, but re...
K35c1 - young man was not killed, but rewarded, because he correctly (evasively) answered the question of a ...
K35c2 - When the ship suddenly stops, the hero descends to the bottom of the sea, behaves correctly with the...
K35c3 - Because of the reason that for some time remains unclear a ship stops in the middle of the sea (rare...
K36 - The hero (heroine) is temporarily turned into an animal (usually a dog/coyote or a donkey withered f...
K37 - In order to return or receive a wife, son or husband (also a pet or object in Africa), a person must...
K37a - The character must identify a son or husband among many identical people or animals. ...
K37b - A man must recognize blindly the woman that he is eager to marry. He does it knowing that one of her...
K37c - The character must identify an animal or object among several identical ones. See motif K37. ...
K37d - The character learns about the presence of another person by noticing traces of his teeth on the fet...
K37e - The clairevoyant is unable to pinpoint a person who betrayed a secret because doing this, the latter...
K38 - For doing good to chicks (rarely: flying snake cubs), their grateful mother does a favor to a person...
K38a - Once in the lower world, the hero sees white and black horses, rams, etc. White will take you to the...
K38b - A serpent or water monster regularly devours or injures children of powerful being (almost always ne...
K38b1 - Every time a mare gives birth to a wonderful foal, a bird takes it away. Going in search of foals, t...
K38b2 - A character (almost always a giant bird) brings or leads the hero to his nest, after which he accide...
K38b3 - The hero feeds, heals, decorates or protects the chicks of a giant bird (the Finns have a flying dra...
K38b3a - Mighty bird helps a man because he had given food to its nestlings...
K38b3b - Mighty bird (more rare other creature/mythological person) helps a man (rare: a woman) because he (s...
K38b4 - Powerful bird has its nest on the tree that stands in or nearby the body of water. The serpent (rept...
K38c - The hero helps the bird (usually does good to its chicks), a grateful bird brings it to the place he...
K38d - A strong and dangerous character prevents others from using water (or sending floods), in most cases...
K38d1 - Fearing a monster living in the water or wanting to stop the flood, a girl is sacrificed or voluntar...
K38e - Loci or objects made of three (rarely four) materials with different degrees of value are mentioned,...
K38e1 - Characters drive (pass) through a forest with two or more types of metal trees (copper, silver, etc....
K38e2 - Returning from the lower world to earth, the princess places the surrounding objects (clothes, house...
K38e3 - In a row of three (less often two or four) loci or objects associated with materials of high but var...
K38e4 - A palace (castle, crypt, church, bridge) made of gold and silver modules (usually bricks, more rare ...
K38f - A monster with reptile features requires human casualties (devours people; kidnaps a girl; closes wa...
K38f1 - When killing a monster or animal, the hero cuts off and hides part of its body, usually his tongue; ...
K38f2 - girl saved by the hero stains him with the blood of the monster he killed. When the deceiver claims ...
K38f3 - To kill the dragon, the hero digs a hole and hides in it. When a dragon crawls nearby or above a hol...
K38f4 - From the mouth of a monstrous creature or person who is the enemy of the hero fire is coming out; it...
K38f5 - From the mouth of a horse fire is coming ot the horse itself is of fire...
K38f6 - A creature that consists of fire is mentioned...
K38f7 - Person obtains some wild animals (of two or more different species) who serve him like dogs...
K39 - The character must feed a powerful creature by regularly throwing pieces of meat at him. The harvest...
K40 - Two (less often more) characters consider themselves doomed to death, but the one who dies later rej...
K41 - A character representing a thunderstorm or giant bird fights a snake or other large creature living ...
K42 - A young female bird vigorously searches for someone she likes among a group of men, forcibly takes h...
K43a - People leave a boy, girl, sister and brother, young woman or young couple alone and leave. Someone s...
K43b - People leave a boy, girl, sister and brother, young woman or young couple alone and either leave or ...
K43c - connected children (boy and sister) are left alone in an empty camp, and the animal frees them. ...
K44 - The character kidnaps a boy or hides him from his mother or father, and says he is his mother or fat...
K44a - An amphibian (frog, toad, rare newt) steals or finds a boy, lies him that she is his real mother...
K44b - The hero or heroine returns after a long absence. When he sees (usually climbing to the roof of the ...
K45 - A man swims away from the woman chasing him or walks away from her on a sledge; when she tries to gr...
K45a - A man rides away from a woman or girl in a boat (on raft). When she tries to snatch a border of the ...
K45b - A man and a woman of different generations (the father and the daughter, the son and the mother) get...
K46 - In a fit of fear or shame, a woman or girl runs to the sea, throws herself into the water or hides o...
K47a - A woman takes a dog as a lover or husband, or conceives it from a dog. Her children grow up to be pe...
K47b - A woman marries a man who originally looked like a dog. The birth of children from a dog is insignif...
K47c - From a woman's marriage to a dog, dogs are friends and helpers. ...
K47d - The girl gives herself to the dog because he fulfills the marriage condition set by her or her fathe...
K48 - antagonist tells the hero's wonderful bird to sing or talk, but it is silent or screams in the wrong...
K48a - hero's costume and/or hat is decorated with live birds or animals. Usually an antagonist steals clot...
K49 - A woman turned into an animal or outside the human world returns to her child to feed and care for h...
K50 - A person comes to the enemy disguised as a woman and kills him at night (usually cuts off his head a...
K51 - The husband feigns death, disappears or leaves home for a long time. The wife finds out that he has ...
K51a - The old wife comes to her new wife in her husband's absence and kills her by pushing her head into b...
K51b - One young woman (small girl) kills another and puts her dead body in such a position that one could ...
K52 - A woman or boy who comes to the shore is carried to the bottom by the predatory inhabitants of the s...
K52a - The hero comes to the bottom of the sea for a woman A slave floods the hearth in the aquatic house. ...
K52b - The hero comes to get the daughter of a supernatural creature. He sees a slave breaking an ax (teslo...
K52c - Demonstrating his strength, a shaman, sorcerer, or other character with magical powers makes the hom...
K52c1 - Demonstrating his strength, a shaman, sorcerer, or other character with magical powers makes the hom...
K53 - The character temporarily turns into an animal or bird of a certain species by wearing its skin, or ...
K54 - you meet a giant or snake, a person is afraid of him, but he becomes his friend and asks for help wh...
K54a - A man and his friendly giant live together. A friendly man fights with another giant, asks a person ...
K55 - A powerful character finds out if his guest made love to his daughter or wife (if the character is f...
K56 - One girl, girl, or young woman (one man's wife) meets a character who can reward and punish. She's b...
K56a - Two or three sisters go successively to a powerful character. The first or the first two act incorre...
K56a1 - groom, the giver of well-being, tells the girl who comes to do work that she is unable to do herself...
K56a2 - The character (usually a girl) comes to another (usually an old woman). He asks the person who comes...
K56a2a - A girl becomes beautiful or ugly after being washed with water of a certain color. ...
K56a2b - A supernatural character asks a girl to buy (feed) his (her) children. They are snakes, beetles, or ...
K56a3 - wandering girl or girl should not tie ties, shoelaces on shoes or clothes. She does it and gets into...
K56a4 - When a kind girl returns home, an animal or bird (usually a dog) reports that she is doing well, and...
K56a4a - Left alone with a demon in the bathhouse (at the mill, etc.), the girl demands that he bring her mor...
K56a4b - The girl was told to peel the yarn, or spin, weave. The wind blows away the yarn (canvas, spindle), ...
K56a4c - A person is instructed to wash white something black or daughter something white (yarn, clothes, boa...
K56a4d - On the way to a dangerous character, a person lubricates the gate (door hinges) with grease or oil. ...
K56a4e - The supernatural person gives similar containers to the good and to the evil person. Opening them, o...
K56a5 - An old or ugly woman, without expecting to become a young beauty or finding wealth. Usually another ...
K56a5a - To become a young beauty, an old or ugly woman asks to peel off her skin. Cf. motive H4. ...
K56a5b - A person kindly answers the question of characters who embody the weather at certain periods of the ...
K56a5c - A person kindly answers the question of characters who embody the weather in certain months of the y...
K56a5d - A person kindly answers the question of a character who embodies the cold, praises him, and is award...
K56a6 - On their way to another world, people or objects ask the child (girl) to eat the food they offer or ...
K56a7 - In winter, a girl (rarely a boy) is sent to bring what is normally available only in summer. It brin...
K56a8 - A girl marries an animal or brings with her an animal that turns into a handsome man (or a young man...
K56a8a - The girl goes to another world, behaves correctly, returns with an animal or object inside which the...
K56a8b - A good girl (usually the daughter of a dog) wants to commit suicide and puts her hand in the snake's...
K56a8c - A young man brings to his place an animal, it turns into a girl. Another man marries a dog (pig) but...
K56a9 - When a small animal (usually a mouse) rings a bell, knocks on a drum, etc., a blind or farther away ...
K56aa - Two or three sisters successively become the dog's brides. The first or the first two act incorrectl...
K56ab - The girl marries a monster. On her wedding night, he tells her to take off her shirt and she tells h...
K56ac - A girl gets to the house in the forest. The bear comes and tells her to prepare him a bed of stones ...
K56b - First one, then another man meets a powerful person or persons. The first man is worthy and rewarded...
K56b1 - poor man goes looking for fire. The old man gives him coals by the fire. At home, they turn into gol...
K56b2 - A supernatural being (object) gives wealth to a humble person. Greedy, trying to take more than he s...
K56b3 - Intestine gases of a man become fragrant. His rival attempts to achieve the same effect but the resu...
K56c - A man loses an axe. The spirit or leader offers him a golden axe, the person says that the axe is no...
K56d - One person heals a bird, it brings a seed, and something valuable grows. Another deliberately maims ...
K56d1 - Pumpkins or watermelons given to humans (grown from donated seeds) contain treasures. ...
K56e - Two men have a similar defect (a hump, a lump). One spends a night in a place where spirits free him...
K56e1 - A man gets to see dwarfs (ghosts, witches) who dance and sing. They mention some days of the week in...
K56f - A person divides a roast rooster (goose) according to the social ranks of those present (the owner -...
K56f1 - It is necessary to divide five chickens (geese, etc.) between six eaters (possibly different numbers...
K56f2 - To divide a certain (often five) number of eggs equally between people of different sexes, a clever ...
K57 - The girl hides her beauty and/or languishes in poverty, a high-status man sees her in her real guis/...
K57a - A noble young man, who treated an insignificant maid rude and disdainfully, does not recognize her i...
K57b - To detain a fleeing beauty, a man in love with her smears the threshold (porch) with resin and glue....
K57c - The prince puts the ring on the beauty's finger, not knowing that she is the same girl who works in ...
K57d - Prince brings a shoe to marry a girl whose foot it fits. To meet such a standard, some girls cut off...
K58 - To get the hand of the chosen one, the character builds a canal or aqueduct. Usually, a woman does n...
K58a - The character draws water for irrigation or a fish river to where the girl agrees to meet him, and d...
K59 - One person puts another in a box and closes the lid, or ties another to a board, boat, etc., throws ...
K60a - Unaware of the danger, the character allows himself to be tied tightly. ...
K60b - Person is lured into a trap being invited to lie in a box or a hole to measure it. Being unable to l...
K60c - The obstinate wife of a decent person goes on a date with a demon or servant. He hits her, but she p...
K61a - To find out the exact number, a specific object in a set, the name of a particular character, or the...
K61a1 - Two men sleep (hide themselves) in one bag. Supernatural person takes them for an unknown monster an...
K61b - To find out the names of strangers, the character finds or creates a situation in which strangers sa...
K61c - demon undertakes to help (agrees not to harm) a person on the condition that he guesses his name. At...
K61c1 - A person will die if he does not find an answer to the demon's question. A person or an acquaintance...
K61d - A young woman accidentally gives her groom, husband or mother-in-law the impression that she works h...
K61e - Seeing a ridiculous situation, a powerful (supernatural) character laughs and thus usually recovers ...
K61f - Fearing her husband's anger, a childless woman pretends to have given birth. The husband believes th...
K62a - mouse (rat, mole, etc.) and a bird quarrel after they cannot share their supplies for the winter. (T...
K62a1 - A person saves (spares) and cares for an injured bird. Having gained strength, the bird puts it on i...
K63 - A person comes to people who hunt people or catch human fish. For them, these are wild animals or fi...
K64 - Once in the home of a herd owner or wildlife owner, the character fears that the owner will kill him...
K64a - A person blinds a cannibal giant who has fallen asleep or unable to move and flees from him. ...
K64b - The hero's opponent provokes him to touch an object that turns out to be sticky. The hero sticks to ...
K64c - A man who gets to destroy the only (healthy) eye of the monstrous man or woman is a smith...
K65 - Being thrown off, thrown away, placed in certain places, born by ancestors, creatures of a certain c...
K65a - When dropped from a height or thrown away, different creatures fall into different loci, receiving a...
K65b - Spirits (deities) or unpleasant animals (snakes, frogs, worms, etc.) were generated by the same firs...
K65c - A woman hides some of her children (rarely all) or some pets from God. According to him, hidden chil...
K65c1 - A woman gives birth to many children, but she hides some of them from God. The hidden ones become th...
K65c2 - A woman or female animal gives birth to several sons, including a human and a tiger. ...
K65d - The first human couple first has only miscarriages, or their children are spirits or unpleasant and ...
K65e - A woman is invited to an inhuman world, where she gives birth to one of the creatures (or serves as ...
K65e1 - A woman is summoned to help supernatural being as a midwife (to baptize a baby). In the human world,...
K65f - Once in the locus of demons, a person sees them in their true form. When a person returns, he sees a...
K66 - Each of several companions or brothers is somewhat superior to other people (he sees, hears, runs be...
K66a - princess (inheritance) is inherited by someone who builds (obtains) a ship that can move on the grou...
K66b - Wandering from one place to another, the hero leaves one of his companions in each of them (usually ...
K66c - The bear takes a woman for sexual partner or the she-bear takes a man. They have children who look l...
K66d - The (adopted) human child of a bear has superhuman strength...
K67 - At night, one is going to throw another's shoes or clothes into the fire, but eventually his shoes o...
K67a - A low-status character annoys high-status characters. When he learns that high-status characters int...
K67b - A character of low social status (who does not have supernatural abilities) undertakes to work for a...
K67c - The character agrees that under certain conditions, another may tear off his back, or cut off his ea...
K67d - An employee (rarely a husband) has annoyed the owner (wife) so much that he or she decides to flee, ...
K67e - The bargain between two persons is to end when a bird whose call is related to particular time of a ...
K67f - A fool (trickster) is told to slaughter any sheep (cow, ox) that will look at him, i.e. it’s all t...
K67g - Pretending that he is acting according his master’s instructions, the farmhand cuts off the lips o...
K67h - When the farmhand is sent to the place where he is expected to be killed by wild beasts, he subdues ...
K68 - A strong person takes food from a weak person, forces him to work for himself (usually a son-in-law ...
K69 - Several men walk to the horizon to go up to heaven from there to visit the Sun or another supreme de...
K70 - One man marries a girl, the other (usually the brother of the first) marries a frog or a toad, or a ...
K71 - coyote brother successfully defends himself against enemies as long as the coyote does not violate a...
K72 - A high-status character meets or marries three (less often two or four) women. One (promises to give...
K72a - The king notes that his ban on lighting lights at night has been broken. ...
K73 - A young wife (promises to give birth and) gives birth to wonderful children (or one son). In the abs...
K73a - Ill-wishers of a woman in labor replace a baby with animals or inanimate objects (they inform the ba...
K73a1 - Ill-wishers of a woman in labor replace the baby with a broom (they tell his father that his wife ga...
K73a2 - After hiding or throwing away a newborn baby, the woman's rivals replace him with a stone (pestle, g...
K73a2a - Hostile women substitute baby of the newly made mother with a piece of wood and/or inform the baby�...
K73a3 - Ill-wishers of a woman in labor replace the baby with a statue, a doll, a piece of wood (they tell h...
K73a4 - Ill-wishers of a woman in labor replace the baby with a puppy (they tell his father that his wife ga...
K73a5 - Ill-wishers of a woman in labor replace the baby with a kitten (they tell his father that his wife g...
K73a6 - A woman's detractors kill (throw away) her wonderful children. Their remains grow into trees (flower...
K73b - A woman who is falsely accused of killing her newborn child or giving birth to a puppy instead of a ...
K73b1 - A woman and her newborn son (a pregnant boy) are placed in a barrel (box; rarely: in a boat) and low...
K73b2 - The woman's children were replaced by puppies, and the woman was punished. Puppies stay with the wom...
K73b3 - A person who is asked to count the nuts in a barrel (take the nuts out piece by piece) accompanies h...
K73b4 - A person is asked to fill the bag (pot) with truth (lies, fairy tales). He complies with the require...
K73b5 - The woman is accused of actions that she, by nature, could not commit. To deny the charge, an exampl...
K73b6 - You need to boil the pot, telling an incredible and yet happened story. ...
K73b7 - Hero saves magic wife from her enemy when both, the future wife and the enemy, have the animal guise...
K73c - The girl ends up in a bird's nest (usually a bird takes a baby girl to it). The bird takes care of t...
K74 - Of the two or more characters, each successively stays at home or goes for a fire to cook or brings ...
K74a - A demonic character comes and mocks one of the remaining men in the house. When the hero remains, he...
K75 - A girl (usually the youngest sister) does not reject a hero who temporarily looks like an animal, fr...
K75a - The character chooses one of many contenders (a woman - a husband, a boy - a father, a boy - a bride...
K75a1 - The ruler tells the youngest daughter and her chosen husband to live in conditions that do not corre...
K75a2 - The unrecognized hero works as a gardener at the powerful person...
K75a3 - The unrecognized hero works as a groom for the powerful person...
K75b - Wanting to show that it is time for them to get married, daughters of different ages send their fath...
K75c - Devil promises a person wealth if he does not wash (cut his hair, etc.) for a while; both keep their...
K76 - A boy born or picked up has a strange or ugly appearance (ball, nut, bag, half human, dwarf, animal)...
K76a - frog or a toad marries a beautiful woman, or a handsome young man marries a frog. ...
K76b - The son or adopter of the spouses is a snake. He turns into a person, usually marrying a high-status...
K76c - The son or adopter of the couple is pumpkin or (rarely) watermelon. Or a girl has the image of a pum...
K76d - The son or adopter of the spouses is a hedgehog. He marries a princess and turns into a handsome man...
K76e - The son (daughter) or adopter of the spouses is a pig. He marries a princess, turns into a handsome ...
K76f - The young man, who looks like a calf, marries and then turns into a handsome man. ...
K76g - The son or adopter of the spouses is cancer (crab). He marries a princess and turns into a handsome ...
K76h - A young man who temporarily has a strange or monstrous appearance (freak, animal, etc.) marries the ...
K77a - Various objects and animals (rare: only animals, but including those that are actually safe and are ...
K77b - After leaving their owners, pets find an empty house or build a house. There are robbers or beasts o...
K77b1 - When pets find the head or skin of a predator, they show it to other predators, who flee in fear. ...
K77b2 - A predator animal asks a goat (a ram, etc.) about a purpose of certain parts of his body. The goat d...
K77b3 - Goats meet a wolf. One goat has one belly, another has two bellies, the third one has three bellies,...
K77c - Objects and/or domestic animals live in a house. When dangerous enemy comes, they attack him, he die...
K78 - cannibal swallows people. When he's killed, it turns out they're not in his womb or they're dead the...
K78a - The demonic character swallows the cripples and regurgitates them healthy and prettier. ...
K79 - When helpless, a person sees a small animal finding a cure for itself or another animal. A person us...
K80 - The character turns into objects or creatures that the other consistently destroys. However, the cha...
K80a - An object or creature that arose from the remains, jewelry, etc. of the victim talks about the murde...
K80a1 - bird (usually arising from the remains of the victim or embodying his soul) talks about the crime co...
K80a2 - part of a victim's body or a plant that grew at the scene of the murder tells people about the crime...
K80a3 - Members of the same family (girls, young women or children) go to the forest for berries. They envy ...
K80a4 - The character is buried (often alive) or falls into the ground. His hair turns into grass (spines, b...
K80a5 - Brothers competing as suitors or heirs must get wild boar. The youngest can do it. The elders kill h...
K80b - The (step)mother kills or orders to kill her small (step)son, eats him or feeds his flesh to her hus...
K80c - Before death, the victim of murderers turns to birds (luminaries, animals, plants, etc.). Later, whe...
K80c1 - After committing a misdemeanor or crime, a person brings home or brings something to eat (veal head,...
K80c2 - Two (or more) people find (steal) valuables. Not wanting to share, one kills the other, but dies him...
K80c3 - Before he dies, a man asks his murderer to tell his pregnant wife to give the newborn a specific nam...
K80c4 - In a deserted place, one person kills another. Over time, he is exposed due to facts and circumstanc...
K80d - A young woman or man is bewitched (turned into a bird, animal, immobilized) when a pin or other shar...
K81 - For a misdemeanor or on false charges, a man maims and kicks her out of the house, or (rarely) kills...
K81a - A girl with the cut off hands comes to the fruit tree (into the vegetable garden) to find food. A pr...
K82 - man's wife or another woman tries to kill his sister. ...
K82a - An ill-wisher makes a woman swallow a snake egg (snake, something else) so that the man thinks that ...
K83 - To heal, rejuvenate, or save a father, father-in-law, or sister, you should bring medicine (a doctor...
K83a - To fulfill their mission, persons sons must reach a place where he never been (or which he reached i...
K84 - The young man gives his sisters for the first to come to marry. They are animals or demons who then ...
K85 - antagonist owns the fastest horse. The hero gets an even faster one (usually the brother or sister o...
K85a - When assessing the speed of a horse's running, the speed of thought (lightning, something else) and ...
K85b - three-legged horse is strong and fast, and is ridden by an inhuman rider. ...
K85c - three-legged horse is strong and fast, but its four-legged brother is faster than him. ...
K85d - By ordering to cover itself with skins (cover with resin and sprinkle with sand, etc.), the heroic h...
K85e - Magic horses live under the water...
K86 - Because a small child is ignored or punished by its parents (usually it cries late in the evening), ...
K87 - A girl or girl becomes an animal's wife against her will. Usually, a forest (water) dweller feeds hi...
K87a - A forest woman gets or kidnaps a little boy and raises him to make him her lover. ...
K87a1 - Mother of a baby child is asked by demonic woman to give her the baby for a short while or the demon...
K87b - A woman picks berries, steps into bear droppings, scolds bears. An insulted bear takes her away and ...
K88 - Two people go on a journey or argue what is stronger: true or false (stinginess or generosity, etc.)...
K88a - A stepmother (aunt, rival) dazzles a young woman. She regains her eyes (often exchanges them for som...
K88b - The character is thirsty or hungry. His companion promises to share water or food with him if he let...
K88c - Person gets to know that the blood (brain, etc.) of a dog who guards sheep nearby can cure the sick ...
K89 - After getting married, the heroine and her rival (witch, frog) must bring gifts from their relatives...
K89a - After getting rid of the danger, a girl or boy goes with his sister or brother. The sister or brothe...
K89b - At the beginning of the story, a sister breaks up with her brothers (or one brother) who die, stay i...
K89c - The girl breaks up with her brother or sister. One or that becomes the wife or husband of a bear or ...
K89d - Left alone in the house or in someone else's house, a girl (less often a male character) hides, turn...
K90 - A person sees two opposing monsters or animals (usually in contrasting colors: red and black, black ...
K90a - Seeing two contrasting colored snakes fight, a person tries to hit one, but accidentally hits the ot...
K90b - antlers of a deer or the tusks of an elephant that a serpent or dragon tries to swallow get stuck in...
K91 - Dogs, the hero's horse, or he himself fight against the enemy in the lower world. Those in the dista...
K92 - father asks the children a question, the answer to which seems obvious (does his daughter love him, ...
K92a - Kicked out of the house or married to an insignificant poor man, a girl becomes rich and respected. ...
K92b - The daughter replies to her father (rarely her brother) that she loves him like salt (or that salt i...
K93 - After a series of adventures and victories, the hero gets into trouble. His twin or brother follows ...
K93a - When lying down with a woman, a man puts a sharp or prickly object between her and himself as a sign...
K93b1 - After eating fish, a childless woman gives birth to a boy or twins. ...
K93b2 - A childless woman conceives a child after eating a fruit (usually an apple; in northern traditions, ...
K93b3 - To have a baby, a woman eats fish, an apple, or something else. Some (often peels, decoctions, peels...
K93b4 - When a woman gives birth to a son, a mare (dog, and/or other pets) gives birth to a boy at the same ...
K93b5 - Person gets into the place of his antagonists acquiring guise of a pup or a kitten. Usually one of h...
K94 - Eating a wonderful bird, fish, animal or fruit gains wealth and power. ...
K95 - Two people who love each other (usually a man and a woman) die untimely and are buried in the same g...
K95a - Lovers are buried in the same grave or nearby. Two plants that stretch towards each other grow in th...
K96 - Several (more than three) brothers are getting married or must marry in such a way that their wives ...
K97 - A man is preparing to kill, but not a big bird. When the bird later carries it, it pretends to leave...
K98 - An animal or (less commonly) a woman who gave birth to or helped a hero becomes a home and property....
K99 - A person dreams about an upcoming celebration for him or a member of his family (rarely: he dreams a...
K99a - A young man or girl (often after dreaming) declares that he (her) has a great future (usually that h...
K99a1 - man thrown into prison is released and exalted, because only he manages to solve the riddles given t...
K99a2 - A person sees a dream, and another person buys it and finds what was predicted in the dream. ...
K99a3 - A person dreams of the sun, moon and stars (all together or part of the above). At the end of the st...
K99b - The girl and the boy agree that he will take her away at night. The young man is late or falls aslee...
K100 - A person learns of the dangers facing another (and usually that by warning his friend/master, he wil...
K100a - When going on a journey, the young man releases the caught fish, an animal, or he or his father does...
K100b - A person helps to bury a dead man (pays his remaining debt, pays tribute to the saint). A living dea...
K100c - A woman (rarely a young man) does not know that there is something dangerous for her marriage partne...
K100d - At the end of the story, an assistant animal (horse, lion, etc.) automatically turns into a prince (...
K100e - Fairy tales act like separate characters: they usually try to harm people by believing that someone ...
K100f - A person caught an unusual fish (rarely: a bird or some aquatic creature). His son (employee) lets h...
K100f1 - A person (usually a king) catches a strange (anthropomorphic) creature. His son releases the wonderf...
K100f2 - The imprisoned supernatural person breaks his chains and escapes after they give him some water (or ...
K100g - To revive or heal a friend (heal himself, fulfill his vow), the character agrees to sacrifice his li...
K100h - The character satisfies the wishes of each of several men, and later visits them again. Most are ung...
K101 - A girl or boy disappears at night. Usually, a girl's clothes or shoes are worn out overnight, or the...
K101a - A man spends several nights next to a dead girl who has become a dangerous demonic creature. As a re...
K101b - girl or boy is disgraced after the hero endures the torment or fears to which demons expose him for ...
K101b1 - The enchanted person (a palace where he or she is) changes his (her, its) appearance gradually as fa...
K101c - The bride makes a condition that she will be with her husband only during the day. The husband finds...
K102 - A woman who initially is friendly to the hero (his mother, sister, more rare his wife, sexual partne...
K102a - A man tells the boy's sister, wife or mother to be killed. The young man does not allow such an orde...
K102a1 - To hide the truth, a person buries an animal or inanimate object and says that another's wife (bride...
K102a2 - A woman seeks to kill her adult son. ...
K102a3 - Someone (usually a woman) puts a poisonous tooth (bone, nail, etc.) into the hero's bed. The young m...
K102a4 - A character hostile to a young man is behind a water barrier. The boy's sister or mother helps him c...
K102a5 - A woman should fill one or two vessels with tears. (Usually, after that, her sentence must end, or t...
K102b - To destroy a hero (heroine), the antagonist must first get rid of his horse. When the horse is ready...
K102c - The enemy takes possession of an item that makes the hero invulnerable and kills him. The hero is al...
K103 - pet (horse, cow, ox, goat, sheep, sheep) helps an orphan, a lonely child, and an unhappy young woman...
K103a - suddenly grown tree (vine, etc.) deviates (raises branches, etc.), preventing the antagonist from cl...
K103b - cow miraculously spins or weaves: it chews a tow, turning it into thread, telling you to wind the ya...
K103c - Sitting on a bull or in the wild, a boy or girl runs away from his stepmother's house. On the way, t...
K103d - An animal (a demonic being) asks the hero or heroine to take objects necessary for him (her) from it...
K104 - youngest brother stays at home, injures a red swan or duck, and follows in his footsteps. ...
K105 - A despised wife gives birth to wonderful children, and other wives produce animals. ...
K106 - hero (a wonderful baby, a magic rooster) is thrown under the feet of animals, but they do not trampl...
K107 - A magical husband leaves his wife. She finds it and returns it. ...
K107a - Before reaching the goal, the character must wear an iron shoe or an iron staff. ...
K107a1 - When the father leaves, the daughter asks for an object to be brought to her. This object is an unus...
K107a2 - A noble person (king) is forced to promise a daughter or son to a demon (monster, predatory beast). ...
K107b - One of the spouses forbids the other to see himself, appears only at night. When another, willingly ...
K107c - magical spouse who arrives in the form of a bird or otherwise appears meets a girl. Envious sisters ...
K107d - Having overcome difficulties, a girl (rarely a young man) finds a magical spouse, but at first she c...
K107d1 - Waiting for a magical wife, the young man falls asleep. His wife cannot wake him up and leaves (the ...
K107e - A woman remains pregnant for many years and gives birth only after her wonderful husband or someone ...
K107e1 - When a magical spouse leaves his earthly wife, his shirt is stained with blood. Only the wife who co...
K108 - The wife dies, her husband revives her, she goes to another man, is punished. ...
K108a - A man gets a magical wife. Another woman tells her to kill or divorce her, then she will be his wife...
K109 - hero gets advice to ask supernatural characters for their service for something insignificant (puppy...
K110 - character is offered to get the treasure from the bottom of the reservoir. He doesn't understand tha...
K111 - The girl's mother consistently rejects birds and animals marrying to her daughter, accepts the propo...
K112 - A person accuses the Sun and other characters responsible for the weather, wild animals, etc., for l...
K113 - Young men (usually three brothers) find wives (usually by shooting arrows or other objects at random...
K113a - young man throws an object, shoots a bow, etc. Where the arrow hit (where the object fell), the youn...
K113b - The younger prince marries a frog. She should be visiting his parents for the first time. A thunders...
K114 - Several brothers leave home immediately after or shortly before their mother gives birth to a baby g...
K115 - When the character hides in the shelter, the spider immediately weaves a web at the entrance. Enemie...
K116 - The young man is going on a journey. His father or mother teaches him to choose a companion: not to ...
K116a - The king takes or is about to pick up the poor man's wife. She finds an excuse to convince the king ...
K116b - To take possession of a girl, someone arranges her father to let her down in a chest (barrel) into t...
K116c - To get a girl, a minister of religion persuades her father to put her into the box (barrel) and thro...
K117 - A woman will marry someone who makes her laugh; a man promises a reward to whoever makes his daughte...
K117a - A girl who is constantly silent is promised to someone who can get her to talk; or her husband can h...
K117b - The hero makes different people (and animals) stick to each other (or to objects). ...
K117c - When a character plays the pipe (violin, horn, etc.), humans and animals start to dance against thei...
K117d - A princess between two suitors must blindly choose who she likes best. A low-born groom adjusts so t...
K118 - When leaving, the character allows another to dispose of the house, but not to look into a specific ...
K118a - Seeing a portrait of a beauty, a man seeks to meet her. ...
K119 - The animal promises to make the poor man rich (usually to marry a rich bride) and, by deception, ful...
K119a - An animal saves a man or helps him but the ungrateful man humiliates the animal, kills or tries to k...
K119b - After deceiving wild animals, the fox brings them to the king under the guise of a gift from its wea...
K119c - father of the bride, who was tricked by a zoomorphic assistant to marry a poor young man (motif K119...
K119d - A cat or cat helps a poor young man marry a princess. ...
K119e - A poor young man who was benefited from an assistant animal, imagining him as a rich man in the eyes...
K120 - girl's father (rarely: stepfather) is going to marry her (as only she meets the requirements that th...
K120a - A man is going to marry his sister (it often turns out that only she meets the requirements that the...
K120a1 - To get rid of an unwanted fiancé (her own father, brother, monster), a girl requires him to get her...
K120a2 - Family members want to marry their daughter to someone they don't want to marry (they usually want t...
K120a3 - The character gets a nut containing valuables (beautiful clothes, jewelry, helper animals, etc.), or...
K120a4 - The character must fill the vessel with tears (pour them on the floor). ...
K120a5 - To get a woman, a man lures her to a ship (into a boat, to a flying machine, etc.) and takes her awa...
K121 - At the crossroads, it is indicated that one road is safe, the other is neutral, and the third is dea...
K122 - Having penetrated a powerful woman from another world, the hero returns to his own. The false hero t...
K123 - A boy, a young man, less often a girl intentionally or accidentally offends an elderly woman. She sa...
K123a - A boy or boy accidentally, and more often out of mischief, breaks or turns the vessel of a woman or ...
K123b - A boy or boy spoils an elderly woman's spinning wheel or yarn. This episode is the basis for the res...
K124 - The animal killed by the hunter runs away. The animal itself or someone else explains that this is n...
K125 - The pursuer asks various items where the hero hid or ran. Everyone is silent, one of the items gives...
K126 - A predatory beast or demon eats the hero's horse, but for this he is forced or voluntary to help him...
K127 - The girl has many brothers, they are turned into birds or animals (rarely: plants; killed by witchcr...
K127a - The heroine must remain silent for a long time and therefore cannot answer the charges. They want to...
K127b - A group of brothers is turned into bulls (oxen) and then disgraced. ...
K128 - The character tells the hero to herd animals (or birds) and promises to execute (deprive the reward)...
K128a - The princess will marry the one who brings her the best apples (figs, fish, etc.) or who brings enou...
K128b - The ruler will give her daughter to someone who can herd (collect, train) hares (squirrels, sheep, p...
K129 - Because of the female antagonist, a girl faints and is taken for dead but her body is not decomposed...
K129a - A young woman (lying in a tomb) comes to life and then looks dead again, but is finally disgraced. ...
K130 - A woman asks who is the most beautiful and gets the answer that she is. Once she is told that the ot...
K130a - Several young men (brothers) live far from people. A girl comes to them, or she is born in their hom...
K131 - Some characters argue for the possession of magic items, but the hero gets the items. Usually he off...
K131a - Several animals (often a lion, falcon, ant) argue (usually over prey or habitat). The hero resolves ...
K131b - After receiving and then losing a magic item, the hero returns it with a new one (a baton, a box wit...
K131c - The woman offers her kidnappers to shoot a bow - she will marry the winner. While they figure out wh...
K131d - The boots (shoes, sandals) which allow the person wearing them to move with extraordinary speed are ...
K132 - A small character (most often a rooster) comes to a powerful opponent. Thanks to creatures and objec...
K132a - The husband (rarely: wife) sends a rooster to work and he brings money. A wife (husband) sends a chi...
K133 - A person notices that his horse (donkey) looks tired and learns that an animal or demonic creature i...
K134 - Treasures are thrown at the guest to accuse him of stealing. ...
K135 - Accidentally defeating powerful opponents, a physically weak and timid person is honored. ...
K136 - young man is the owner and leader of a herd of cattle, and with his herd of cows or buffaloes is cal...
K136a - Seeing the hair of a girl or boy covered with water, the character decides to marry the one (marry t...
K136b - The character finds gems or unusual flowers (usually in the river) and finds out where they come fro...
K136c - When leaving, the demon temporarily kills or puts the girl to sleep, and when he returns, he revives...
K136d - From a cow (buffalo), the young man receives two flutes (flutes, horns), playing on which has differ...
K137 - brother is killed, the sister dressed as a young man, gets women who can revive the dead, puts her b...
K137a - A young man is killed. His sister puts on his clothes and pretending she is a man gets a wife for hi...
K138 - A person gains the ability to revive the dead by incarnating in his body. As long as he stays in it,...
K139 - servant is so amazed at the girl's beauty that he lets the meat or bread intended for the master bur...
K140 - Traveling with his sister or brother, the young man regularly kills saviors and helpers, exposing hi...
K141 - Supernatural women are hurting people. The hero tames them and usually marries them. ...
K142 - After killing several, the person asks the gravedigger to bury the dead man and each time says that ...
K143 - The protagonist of the story is a poultry farmer or a bird hunter, or the son of a birdsman (hunter)...
K144 - When the animal, object, or person that should have caused the character's death has already died or...
K145 - A person is predicted to be torn to pieces by a wolf or die during a wedding. The prediction turns o...
K145a - A person is predicted to die from a predatory beast. The image of the beast comes to life and kills ...
K145b - When a girl and a man remain alone (usually during their wedding night), the girl turns into a preda...
K146 - The hero is sent to get a remedy that can cure the patient or revive the deceased. On the way back, ...
K147 - The enemy dismembers the hero's body. The remains are tied to the horse's saddle or the horse picks ...
K148 - A mare gives birth to a foal every night or every year, and every time someone abducts it. ...
K149 - The character has a rope or reins with three knots that allow you to move faster or slower. Usually,...
K150 - A magic horse (rarely: a dog) eats (hot) coals, nails, etc. or tries to feed the horse with it. ...
K151 - The magic assistant satisfies the poor man's simple desire. The poor man or his wife is asking more ...
K152 - A person saves a trait that suffers from the proximity of a certain character or object. To reward h...
K152a - A man pushes a grumpy wife into a hole (well, failure). The evil spirit (snake, predator) who was th...
K153 - A person provides services to several (potentially dangerous) animals and another person. Grateful a...
K154 - A man finds a skull with a mysterious and dark prophecy written on it. Then it turns out what it mea...
K154a - solving a riddle, a boy or young man exposes the daughter, wife, or assistants of a powerful charact...
K155 - A person (usually a king) raises a son (daughter) in isolation. One day (usually by chance) a young ...
K155a - A person (usually a king) raises his daughter (less often a son) indoors, tells her to feed her meat...
K155b - A girl in the tower lowers her hair out of the window, which makes another character understand her....
K155c - Father regularly puts his daughter on the scales and understands that she is pregnant because she is...
K156 - The girl pretends to be a man. To determine who it really is, flowers are placed under the pillow or...
K156a - The young man suspects that the other boy is a girl in disguise. The young man's mother comes up wit...
K156b - People suspect that a young man is a disguised girl and suggest tests to identify the real sex of th...
K157 - The character lures his opponents one at a time and each, as soon as they appear, cuts off their hea...
K157a - To find the missing husband (wife, savior), the character arranges a free distribution of food or ot...
K158 - To find her missing husband (and other men who helped or harmed her), a woman displays her image and...
K159 - When two characters are fighting, the person nearby wants one of them to slip (and the other to stan...
K160 - The hero is given the task of bringing hair, feathers, scales, etc. of a dangerous character. He doe...
K160a - A woman living in the house of a supernatural character hides the person who comes to her and asks t...
K161 - A character who has imprisoned a dragon (demon, thunder) tells others not to unlock the dungeon (not...
K162 - antagonist (robber, sorcerer, witch) enters the house of a girl or young woman, hiding inside a stat...
K163 - magician tells the young man to get a magic object (often a lamp) from a remote place. The young man...
K164 - The person himself or someone else creates a situation in which he is convinced that his wife is not...
K165 - The young man has never been afraid and wants to know what it is. Robbers and evil spirits don't sca...
K166 - A group of girls form a community or detachment and acts independently of men. Cf. motive F39. ...
K167 - The boy plays pretending to be king and is wiser than the real one. ...
K167a - The queen hated her son, who is pregnant, and replaced him with the son of an ordinary man, who is r...
K167b - The boy is able to determine the sex and the color of a baby-animal in its mother’s womb...
K168 - A person is going through an eventful long period of life. Everything turns out to be an illusion, h...
K168a - A person thinks that he has something in his hands to eat (veal head, melon, bread, etc.), but these...
K168b - A person makes another believe that he has become a bear (wolf), ended up in the forest, etc. When h...
K169 - The hunter spares the stalked animal, noticing that it is a pregnant female and remembering his own ...
K170 - The character goes in search of an area where there are no ordinary creatures living everywhere (wat...
K171 - Heroes fight, but there are no fewer enemies, as someone is constantly weaving (forging) new warrior...
K172 - To a potential fiancé, a man describes his daughter as ugly and crippled. The groom agrees to the m...
K173 - A powerful and rich man loses everything, is separated from his wife and children, they are separate...
K174 - To sign their arrival, a person places, and often quietly throws a ring or other small piece of pers...
K175 - man carried the flour, the rising wind carried her away. A person complains to a powerful character ...
K176 - A man goes on a journey to find or return a bride or wife. ...
K176a - Hero is in search of his lost magic wife. One of the winds is just going to fly there because he mus...
K177 - A girl or young woman sets off to find or return her fience or her husband or she escapes from a fan...
K178 - The girl goes down to the lower world to her magical husband, and when she violates the ban, he driv...
K179 - As much (or more) gold (silver) as she weighs herself has been given or promised for the girl. ...
K180 - The ruler demands an explanation for his dream. The snake tells a person that this dream means the c...
K181 - The hero finds a suitable horse in the dungeon (in the basement, in deep mud, etc.), where he has be...
K181a - When a man puts his arm on the back of a horse, the horse gives way, falls. It is a sign of the man�...
K182 - A supernatural protector comes to the rescue when he hears an alarm, but stops doing so after the si...
K182a - Mighty hero is retired to the cave (tomb etc.) will come back to the world (to help his people) or h...
K183 - The character rips the bellies of aquatic creatures or looks down their throats to find the swallowe...
K184 - Not recognizing his son, his father fights with him and kills him. ...
K561 - A poor man brings his master a chicken (goose, etc.) as a present. The master asks him to divide the...
L1a - anthropomorphic character turns into a dangerous four-legged predator (tiger, bear, jaguar). ...
L1b - A young woman turns into a monstrous bear, killing most people except her younger sister (Ojibwa: ex...
L1b1 - A woman gets into conflict with her brothers and turns into dangerous demon...
L1c - Those who run away from the monstrous bear rise to the sky and turn into stars. ...
L1c1 - Fleeing from demonic characters, a group of male relatives of the girl ascends to heaven and stays t...
L1c2 - Fleeing from the demonic creature, the characters hide their children (younger siblings) in a disgui...
L1d - werewolf jaguar kills most people and is killed thanks to a woman who survived. ...
L1e - A monstrous bird is made from small amounts of human or animal flesh (usually from the heart) or fro...
L1f - sister, magically or turned into a monster, kills her brothers, avenging them for the death of her l...
L3 - The demon takes the form of a man and comes to his wife (less often another woman). Usually a woman ...
L3a - Left alone, a woman carelessly calls someone to help her with the housework; a demon comes and kills...
L4 - The character consistently (almost) kills girls (rarely: his nephews or his wife's younger siblings)...
L4a - demon requires the hero (heroine) to eat food that they should not eat. When the hero reports that t...
L4b - Person gets to know that the heroine has broken his or her prohibition to enter a certain room becau...
L5c - monster head chases stars, humans, or sticks to someone else's body. See motif L5. ...
L5d - A rolling head suffers from thirst. See motif L5. ...
L5e - woman's decapitated body stalks her husband and her head haunts her children. ...
L5e1 - A woman who had changed into demon pursues her own children...
L5f - The head, face or skull are a woman's husband, groom or son; it is not dangerous for her, brings wea...
L5g - remains of one of the sisters is her head. She goes after another sister or sisters, or they take he...
L5h - Two sisters or two brothers find themselves in a demon's house or in front of an obstacle. One or on...
L6 - creature requires a person to wear it all the time and does not allow himself to be thrown off. ...
L6a - inconspicuous, faint-looking character asks a person to carry him or her on his back, and then refus...
L7 - In pursuit of a person, a spirit, monster, or beast mistakenly rushes after a large double object, u...
L7a - A character who sticks to another creature and refuses to get off first sticks to the person and the...
L7b - In pursuit of a person, a spirit, monster, or beast mistakenly rushes after a calebasa launched alon...
L9 - character's body parts look like cutting or piercing guns. ...
L9a - character's leg is maimed (intentionally or accidentally) or initially pointed. He uses sharpened bo...
L9b - character's sharp elbows or (rarely) knees are like knives or awls. ...
L9c - The character kills others with a sharp protrusion on his chest. ...
L9d - The character has sharp nails or knife hands that he uses to kill people. ...
L9e - In an anthropomorphic character, the nose is like a copper or iron beak. ...
L9f - A person's nose or teeth made of gold or silver are a sign of his demonic nature. ...
L9g - The beard or hair of a man are of unusual color. This is a sign of his demonic nature...
L10 - The character has a sharp (biting) tail or protrusion on the back. See Motive L9, cf. L9C Motive. ...
L10a - A demonic character approaches a man's fire. A person first leaves a block instead of himself, hides...
L11 - Everyday items look like fish, invertebrates, reptiles, dangerous predators, or items turn into thes...
L12 - Vultures take to the sky a creature that has lost some of its members or has only one head left. ...
L13 - People bring home and raise a dangerous creature (or it grows by itself in a man-made water tank). W...
L14 - People bring a small creature (usually a worm or reptile) into their homes and raise them, or they s...
L15a - The character's vulnerable spot is on the surface of the body, but not in vital internal organs. ...
L15a1 - When a baby is hardened to make his body invulnerable, a small area remains unhardened. A mature her...
L15a2 - The body of a person is made invulnerable (in a furnace, etc.) besides a particular spot...
L15b - A character can only be killed by a specific plant that is not usually used to make weapons. ...
L15b1 - In a battle between positive and negative creators, a positive person chooses a deer horn as a weapo...
L15c - A dangerous character asks the hero what he can kill, what he is afraid of. The hero lies, the named...
L15c1 - A dangerous character innocently tells us what exactly he is afraid of or what his life is about, th...
L15d - Life of a person or creature is preserved outside of his (her, its) body. Person or creature dies af...
L15d1 - When a character tries to find out where his soul is (death), he first gives the wrong answer, and t...
L15e - hero's life is in an object, usually in his weapon. The enemy steals or throws away the item, the he...
L15e1 - An aged and/or feeling his death is approaching, instructs his son, warrior, or people under control...
L15e2 - A powerful character instructs his son, warrior, or people under control to throw his blade (sword o...
L15f - A young woman or boy dies as soon as her or her jewelry (rarely an organ) is stolen and comes back t...
L15g - A person's life is connected with an object that can be burned. As soon as an object is burned, a pe...
L15g1 - Person knows the secret on which depends life of his or her husband, son or wife. After a quarrel, h...
L15h - An object that contains the life (soul) of a person is inside two or more creatures or other objects...
L15i - A man dies or loses strength if his hair is cut or the hair on his head is pulled out. ...
L16b - creature's eyes or mouths are located on the joints (knees, etc.). ...
L17 - mouth and eyes of an anthropomorphic creature are on the chest, no head. ...
L17a - A character or creature has an eye or second pair of eyes on the back or back. Cf. motive L17b, “m...
L17a1 - Characters with varying numbers of eyes remain watching the hero or heroine. He or she puts his eyes...
L17a2 - Instead of a beautiful woman, a man takes a devil with an odd number of eyes. ...
L17b - The character or creature has a second person or second mouth on the back of his head. ...
L18 - A bird with two or more heads in descriptions or images. ...
L19a - Beings (any besides birds) with even but not more than ten number of heads are described in tales or...
L19b - Creatures (any other than ornithomorphic ones) with more than 10 heads or an odd (but more than one)...
L19b1 - seven-headed reptile is described or depicted (except when snakes with the largest number of heads a...
L19b2 - A creature with 12 heads is mentioned either individually or by closing a row of creatures with fewe...
L19b3 - A monster with twelve heads is mentioned either alone or at the end of the row of creatures with eve...
L20 - Two characters hunt or fish. One turns out to be or becomes an ogre, which is discovered when he/she...
L20a - A man climbs a tree, pulls chicks (usually a parrot) out of the nest and throws them to the woman. S...
L21 - cannibal or demon under a tree intends to capture a person who climbs a tree; he throws prey or an o...
L22 - Breaking a ban, seeing an unusual object or a strange character, people fall asleep deeply; at night...
L22a - Breaking a ban, seeing an unusual object or a strange character, people fall asleep deeply and wake ...
L23 - Trying to free himself, the captured character consistently turns into various substances, materials...
L23a - Trying to free himself, the captured character consistently changes his appearance, in particular tu...
L23b - Trying to free himself, the captured character consistently changes his appearance. The last transfo...
L23c - Being seized, person changes his or her guise in succession, the last transformations is into a smal...
L23d - Being seized by a person, a female person turns into different materials, elements or animals (Urari...
L23e - Being seized by a person, a male person turns into different materials, elements or animals...
L24 - Demons (or one of them) attack people and return to their den (usually a cave or tree hollow). Peopl...
L25 - By killing demons, people save the life of a child, girl or woman. When she or he stays around, she ...
L26 - During the (first) initiation, supernatural beings teach boys rituals and kill them for violating ru...
L26a - During the (first) initiation, men kill supernatural characters (reproducing their appearance and/or...
L27 - Sisters or girlfriends meet a demon. One or both don't understand the danger. One is eaten or maimed...
L27a - Sisters, or siblings, find themselves in the same house as an antagonist whose cannibalism they only...
L28 - A person who eats unusual or forbidden meat or fish food, or touches something forbidden, turns into...
L28a - The character eats the meat of a snake (dragon, unusual fish); this results in a flood, a river or l...
L29 - People fish where they should not be, usually in a small forest pond isolated from running water; th...
L30 - A person who violates the food ban is terribly thirsty and drinks huge amounts of water. See motif L...
L31 - People are forced against their will to follow an object, person or animal (usually stick to it) tha...
L31a - An object comes down from the sky. Children playing climb into it or stick to it, it takes them to h...
L31b - people find a reptile on land, they touch it or sit on it, stick it and crawl into the water with it...
L32 - The stone swallows, bites, hits or transforms people. ...
L33 - The stone rolls after the character, trying to crush him. ...
L33a - trickster picks up an object lying on or near a rock or other seemingly inanimate object he has give...
L33b - character invites someone who at first glance is unable to move (stump, boulder, fire) to race. The ...
L33c - trickster and the boulder agree to race down the slope. The boulder is rolling faster and crushing t...
L33d - A rolling monster stone kills people. The hero destroys it. See motif L33. ...
L33e - The trickster demands back or picks up a cape belonging to a skateau or other character (he usually ...
L33f - A rock, a boulder chases the character. He calls for help, splits the rock to pieces with his nightj...
L33g - A tree, a creature on a tree, a stone kills (seriously injures) anyone who calls it a certain way, c...
L34 - A character kills or maims an enemy by setting fire to his clothes, mask, hat, hair, or object behin...
L35 - shaman or spirit comes at night and puts his hand inside the hut to steal food or disturb the woman....
L36 - The moment a husband climbs a tree or descends from a tree, the wife (or her brother) kills, maims h...
L37a - Description not found...
L37a1 - A person goes to find out the reason for his failures. Others also share their questions with him. G...
L37a2 - A person comes to ask God (fate, sun, etc.) questions asked him to ask by those he met along the way...
L37b - By accidentally overhearing animals or spirits talking, a person learns how to help themselves and o...
L37b1 - To cure a sick person or save the house from other misfortunes, it is necessary to kill (get, expel)...
L37b2 - From a conversation between snakes or crows, a person learns about the cause of another's illness: a...
L37b3 - Overhearing conversation of two snakes or raven, person gets to know the cause of a sickness of anot...
L37b4 - Overhearing conversation of animals or ghosts, person gets to know that the meat (brain, blood) of a...
L37c - A person meets the incarnations of Doli (and Nedoli) - his own or someone else's. He manages to infl...
L37c1 - Everyone's happiness (Unhappiness, Need, etc.) are special characters with whom a person comes into ...
L38 - The demon sets a trap, people fall into it. Cf. motive K64A. ...
L38a - The character sticks to an object, usually by successively sticking to it by individual members of h...
L39 - By force or deception, the character forces another to come down from the tree and brings or leads t...
L39a - A supernatural character comes out of the underworld and attacks a person who climbs a tree. See mot...
L39b - A tree grows from a doughnut (scone etc.) and usually brings doughnuts instead of fruits...
L39c - A boy (less often a girl) climbs a fruit tree that has just grown (usually from an abandoned bone). ...
L39d - A boy climbs a tree for fruit. The demonic character asks you to share with him, but not to throw th...
L40 - A character finds (rarely: he never finds) another on a tree or rock, noticing his reflection or sha...
L40a - An ugly woman sees the reflection of a young man sitting on a tree in the water and thinks that she ...
L40b - To get the character closer, they perform absurd actions in front of his eyes. The character does no...
L40c - Based on the ambiguity of the statement, the person who bought a cheap object claims rights to a muc...
L41 - After catching a person, the ogre carries his prey home, but the caught person runs away along the w...
L41a - The character runs away from the person who caught him, leaving a stone (or block, sand) instead. Se...
L41a1 - When demon tries to empty his bag, stones and not the hero fall out and break the cauldron...
L41b - basket in which the cannibal puts people is smeared or filled with resin. See L41, L42 motives. ...
L41c - cannibal grabs the kids when they ride down the hill. ...
L42 - An ogre or ogress catches a person and brings him to his or her home where he or she plans to cook a...
L42a - cannibal steals fresh corpses from graves. ...
L42b - The child (less often the wife) of the antagonist believes the words of the hero he caught and broug...
L42b1 - character kidnapped by the demon advises him to place pots, pans and other kitchen items on top of e...
L42c - The character hides from the stronger one inside the house and then outside, the strong cannot grab ...
L42d - A man runs away from the ogre on the ice, the cannibal chases him, licks the blood that has spilled ...
L42e - demon catches the hero, brings him home, the hero runs away along the way. The demon returns, grabs ...
L42f - Intended to be eaten, the character runs away unnoticed. The landlord thinks that his wife ate it al...
L42g - stepmother, and more often the father (usually at the insistence of the new wife) leaves the childre...
L42g1 - The father (stepmother) takes the children into the forest, leaves unnoticed. To make the children t...
L42g2 - A person leaves a trail, throwing seeds, pebbles, etc. or leaving drops of blood. Birds destroy the ...
L42g3 - In the forest or in the sky, the character sees a house that is fully or partially made of edible ma...
L42h - cannibal catches the hero, invites other cannibals to a feast. The hero runs away, and the cannibals...
L42i - Creatures from another world carry a little boy away. His sister picks him up and safely leaves the ...
L42i1 - The boy is swimming in a boat. The witch lures him out and takes him away. The boy is saved. ...
L42j - cannibal catches children (usually mice), puts them in a bag, tells the tree (pole, crossbar in the ...
L42k - The demonic character regurgitates an axe (Teslo) to cut down a tree. ...
L43 - The hero escapes from the demon's trap or continues to be unharmed in the shelter from where the dem...
L44 - demon or powerful beast requires a person or a weak animal to show individual parts of his body. It ...
L44a - demon demands that the person hiding in the shelter give him parts of his body. A person gives the d...
L44b - blind and the deaf (lame) began to live together, helping each other. After being fatally frightened...
L45 - A strong character drives the weak one into a trap and leaves someone to guard the loot. The watchma...
L46 - The character walks, goes up or down, or sees the world upside down. ...
L47 - The hero's opponent approaches him upside down or backwards, giving the hero the opportunity to kill...
L48 - A hero (usually somewhere on a hill - on a tree, rock, on the edge of an abyss or a well) kills and/...
L49 - Individual parts or pieces of the character's body are successively dropped down. (In American versi...
L50 - The character kills travelers passing by him. He usually does not attack them unexpectedly, but dist...
L51 - cannibal, a spirit, a predatory beast regularly throws its prey down, where they are devoured by aqu...
L52 - A person escapes from a pursuer by climbing a tree and then flying away from it by himself or on the...
L53 - A terrible creature has been killed or neutralized by hot stones, pieces of iron, etc. thrown into i...
L54 - To overcome a disaster, hot stones or ash are thrown into the water. ...
L55 - To neutralize a dangerous enemy, caustic or boiling liquid is poured into one of the holes in his bo...
L56 - monster or a huge animal dies from a fire in its womb. See K8A motif. ...
L57 - The character loses his inner organ, part of his body, they are carried away by others; he approache...
L57a - Hostile creatures take possession of a part of the character's body, he dies or gets sick. The other...
L57b - A person tears off, cuts off a part of the body of a predatory beast or demonic creature, and uses i...
L58 - A person denies food to his immediate family or spouse; as punishment, he or his food changes its na...
L59 - A woman eats the best food alone or eats fruits until they are ripe; as punishment, she metamorphose...
L59a - People who abuse a hero or his son are dragged into the sea, turning into a marine animal or part of...
L60 - Several sisters are picking up a baby. In their absence, he becomes an adult man, and when they appr...
L61 - The character eats himself, gutts, or kills himself to be eaten. ...
L62 - stone man kills people but then kills himself. ...
L63 - The character eats food with his bosom or anus. See F9A motif. ...
L64 - A character takes off, takes out a part of his body (head, scalp, lungs), picks it up, puts it back....
L65 - baby or small child turns out to be a demon, killing people. ...
L65a - A daughter is born, or people find a girl; she is a monster or turns into a monster, devours everyon...
L65a1 - A demonic person devours in succession parts of the hero’s horse, each time coming back to the her...
L65a2 - Person shoots off (injures) a finger of a demonic person and then sees that his baby-sister’s fing...
L65b - A demonic woman, less often her lover or other monster, is ready to kill or kill a hero. Dogs (or an...
L65b1 - A person exchanges sheep (goats) for dogs. The exchange looks unequal, but dogs help him succeed. ...
L65b2 - hero's dogs have names that indicate their strength and dexterity (Wind, Lomayiron, etc.). ...
L65b3 - character who climbs a tree manages to escape from a demon (usually he tries to knock down a tree). ...
L65b4 - A demonic character pulls out a tooth to use it as a weapon or tool (often an ax). ...
L65b5 - Despite obstacles, dogs of the hero or other animals who are his helpers come to the princess at the...
L65c - The eldest of three or more sisters turns out to be cannibal, devouring younger sisters and others. ...
L65d - When the older sister becomes a cannibal, the youngest is (temporarily) saved. Cf. motives L1B, L65C...
L66 - To help the hero, a small animal digs an underground passage under the lying monster, and the hero s...
L67 - After digging an underground passage to a lying monstrous ungulate, a small animal gnaws hair from w...
L68 - A person experiences a monstrous metamorphosis, being left (usually in a deserted place at night) al...
L69 - A person is attacked by a monster; a puma, jaguar, or dog fights, kills or chases a monster; the per...
L70 - The character is killed or maimed by an object dropped from above that he expects to fall, but he ha...
L71 - The character kills an animal; the trickster tries to pick up the meat; the character raises the mea...
L72 - Fleeing, the character throws small objects behind him that turn into powerful obstacles in the way ...
L72a - Fleeing, the character throws a comb (brush) behind him, which turns into an obstacle on (almost alw...
L72b - Fleeing, the character throws small objects behind him, turning into powerful obstacles in the path ...
L72c - Fleeing, the character throws a mirror behind him, which turns into an obstacle for the pursuer (ice...
L72d - Fleeing, the character throws scissors behind him, which turn into an obstacle in the path of the pu...
L72e - To overcome the obstacles created by the fleeing hero, the pursuer is forced to return home for the ...
L72e1 - To destroy the obstacles created by the hero, the pursuer uses tools. Before continuing his chase, h...
L72f - Fleeing, the character throws giblets or the contents of the animal's stomach behind him, which beco...
L72g - Fleeing, the character throws salt behind him, which turns into an obstacle in the path of the pursu...
L72h - Fleeing, the character throws behind him a firefighting tool (flint, chair, match, tinder), which tu...
L72i - Fleeing, the character throws soap behind him, which turns into an obstacle for the pursuer (slipper...
L72j - Fleeing, the character throws an awl or needle behind him, which turns into many awls or needles. ...
L72k - Fleeing, the character throws a bottle of oil behind him. When it spills out, it turns into a lake o...
L73 - Trying to drink the river, lake, sea, the antagonist bursts. ...
L73a - The fugitives make it so that darkness spreads behind them, preventing the pursuer (and light is pou...
L73b - The runner draws a line along the ground, resulting in an obstacle to the pursuer's path. ...
L73c - Waving a piece of cloth (throwing it on the ground, putting on water, etc.) person creates obstacles...
L74 - A bear or other powerful character tears off and carries another's hand. The third character steals ...
L74a - The enemy takes the hero away or tears off and carries away a part of his body, and then hangs his v...
L75 - One of the two brothers is the epitome of evil; at birth, he cuts his mother's body, killing her. ...
L76 - When a cannibal attacks a man, she devours or rips off his testicles. ...
L77 - The character devours people because he sees delicacy instead of them. ...
L78 - In the images, the character has the characteristics of a jaguar and a toad; the toad/frog becomes a...
L79 - The girl marries a powerful, benevolent character; his first wife is a monster; he kills her or is h...
L80 - A demonic creature or animal is killed, but it comes to life or may come to life if even a small par...
L81 - A person who goes looking for fire finds it in the demon. A demon stalks a person, harms him, kills ...
L81a - The girl offended the cat (rarely: a dog, a rooster) and she, in revenge, adjusts so that the girl s...
L81a1 - Seeing a red bead (pebble) falling into the hearth, the character thinks that it is a coal and does ...
L81a2 - While men are not at home, a demonic character comes to a girl or young woman to drink her blood. Me...
L81a3 - The girl sees the demon in a frightening and disgusting form. The next time he asks what she said ab...
L81b - The hero's rivals throw him off, cutting off his legs (usually leaving his sword in front of his ten...
L81c - A legless person lives with a blind and armless person (or one of two). Together they grab a demonic...
L81d - After defeating the demon, two crippled people with different bodily disabilities quarrel and fight,...
L82 - A person intentionally or accidentally burns his leg in the fire or burns himself entirely; he becom...
L83 - A character with only one head left (L5 motif) or who burns his leg (L82 motif) turns into lightning...
L84 - The character tries to cut down a tree with an ax made of obviously unusable material. ...
L85 - The character has only half of the body (vertically). See also L85C, Half Chicken. ...
L85a - The character is born as half a person or becomes half a person as a result of an accident. He or sh...
L85b - A pregnant woman scolds the Sun, Rain, or another powerful character. Because of this, a child is bo...
L85b1 - Having risen to heaven (meeting God, returning from heaven to earth), a bodily flawed young man (usu...
L85c - A character with half a body is a chicken, a chicken. Sometimes it's just a name, and the character'...
L85d - The hero meets a giant and a strongman (usually a ploughman) with one hand, one leg, one eye. He was...
L85e - The character has only one leg (and one arm), which does not prevent him from moving around. Unlike ...
L86 - Having become a demon, a woman stalks her children. See J35 motif. ...
L87 - The character accidentally tastes blood, and then devours himself and/or others. ...
L88 - A man kills a demon, and when he touches his remains over time, he comes to life. ...
L89 - One person, wanting to harm another, quietly lets him eat a certain food or use a certain item. As a...
L90 - One lip (one fang, horn, etc.) of the creature reaches the sky, the other drags across the ground. ...
L90a - A house is described that stands on the feet or one leg of a bird or small animal and/or rotates (ca...
L90b - One tooth (tusk) of a supernatural creature touches the sky, and the other touches the ground or rea...
L90c - An animal (deer, ram, goat, bull, cow or wolverine) has the horns, one of which touches the ground, ...
L90d - A hero attaches the upper lip (jaw) of a monster to the sky, and the lower one to the ground...
L91 - Two or four young men go camping or coming back. Their path is blocked by a long creature that canno...
L92 - demon, an ogre, cuts down a tree or rock on top of which the hero hides. The animal offers to cut th...
L93 - demon, an ogre, cuts down a tree or rock on top of which the hero hides. While he is resting, the an...
L93a - A fox, jackal or coyote, using cunning, helps a hero, heroine or people in general, saves them. ...
L93b - hare or rabbit, using cunning, helps a hero or heroine, saves them. ...
L93c - monkey helps the hero or heroine, saves them. ...
L94 - demon or animal helps a person or agrees to let him go, but for this he promises to give him a daugh...
L94a - When a person leans towards the water, the demon grabs his beard and lets him go for promising to fu...
L94b - A person promises to give the supernatural character the first person to meet (either what he has no...
L94b1 - A person receives a box (bag, horn, etc.) as a gift, which he must open only at home. Driven by curi...
L94c - Asking the deity to destroy an enemy, a person promises that if his (her) plea will be granted he (s...
L94d - The demonic character accuses a person of stepping on the tail (tore off the tail) of a fairy tale. ...
L94e - Supernatural being who helps the hero (heroine) if the latter fulfills certain demands is the white ...
L95 - A person (usually a child or teenager) returns to his original place for a forgotten object (often a...
L95a - A person sees lungs or liver lying on the ground or floating in water. As soon as he touches them, a...
L95b - Having promised to give the demon the child, the mother or father does not try to save him, but they...
L96 - The character has the ability to transform into animals or objects. Being sold in this form, he achi...
L96a - person sighs, followed by a character named <i>Oh</i>, <i>Uf, Awai</i>, etc....
L96b - A person comes to an ascetic, demon, etc. He is going to kill him by pushing him into a boiling pot ...
L96c - A youth studies magic but answers his master that he has learned nothing. Thank to this, the master ...
L97 - Seeing a character who is deprived of the ability to move (nailed to the ground, the bottom of his b...
L98 - demon who takes children away, threatens heroes, humans, etc., is an owl; there is an owl race that ...
L99 - After grabbing the character, the ogre tells him to bring firewood himself or a spit to fry it. The ...
L100 - A young man and a girl running away from their pursuers take the form of different but associatively...
L100a - fugitive turns into a small object (stick, stone) or hides in a similar object. The stalker angrily ...
L100b - After running away from his pursuers, the young man breaks up with the girl to return for her soon, ...
L100b1 - The young man forgets his magic bride and meets another woman. At the last moment a bird tells the s...
L100c - When a man comes to a lonely beauty, she asks him to do an insignificant assignment (close the door,...
L100d - A man or more men, one of whom is usually a cleric, seek the love of a beautiful woman. Having agree...
L100d1 - A person with (spiritual) power comes to a woman in the evening. When there is a knock on the door, ...
L100e - Before entering, the guest notices the hostess and her lover in the house. When a husband arrives, t...
L100f - In the absence of the host, the guest is told that the host is going to kill or to maim him. The gue...
L100f1 - The employee (the owner's young son) adjusts so that the dishes prepared by the hostess for the love...
L100g - servant serves the master a fried bird, one of which has already been eaten. He tells you to look at...
L101 - Running away from the pursuer, a person consistently undresses and throws garments behind him. The s...
L102 - girl or woman (for various reasons, jokingly or seriously) calls an animal or animal remains a husba...
L102a - The sea-gull abducts a girl or a woman but she gets to return to the people...
L103 - The runner throws or creates objects behind him that the pursuer, wasting time, collects, eats, or d...
L103a - girl, a young woman, runs away from a demonic character; she manages to run home, but her relatives ...
L103b - A girl or boy falls into a demonic creature. A captive (prisoner) rides a pet (usually a calf, a bul...
L103b1 - The Hero (heroine) flights from a demon riding a domestic animal (often a calf or a bull). When the ...
L103c - demon, usually an old cannibal, cannot enter the house as long as he is guarded by a dog or cat. The...
L104 - fleeing character consistently takes the form of various creatures or objects; the pursuer also chan...
L105 - An animal, fish, or anthropomorphic character injured by the hero runs away or swims away - usually ...
L106 - A person takes an item from another and loses it; the owner demands that the item be returned; the h...
L106a - antagonist makes formally justified, but essentially unfair demands on the hero. The hero performs t...
L106b - A girl, girl, or (rarely) boy loses a household item, usually carried away by water or wind. In sear...
L107 - People have disproportionately large ears (rarely: lips): they cover them like a blanket, use them a...
L108 - Every time a character who has left returns, he or she sends a conditional signal to his relative (u...
L108a - A predator or cannibal swallows humans and animals. A goat (rarely a sheep) punishes him and usually...
L108b - To prevent the victim from recognizing him, a predator, an ogre makes his voice thinner with the hel...
L108b1 - To make his voice subtle, the character turns to a blacksmith. ...
L108b2 - To get a subtle voice, the character lets ants bite his tongue. ...
L108c - To prevent the victim from recognizing him and unlocking the door, the predator, the cannibal shows ...
L108d - A character who swallows his prey alive falls asleep. When his belly was ripped open, the swallowed ...
L108e - A fox has a child, usually adopted (she takes care of a lamb, foal, etc.), a wolf or bear kills him,...
L108f - character (girl, boy) is in the water, the antagonist lures him ashore, imitating the voice of his f...
L108g - The character is black and must sit in the water until he turns white. The antagonist takes him away...
L109 - pumpkin turns out to be an absorber monster and/or grows from the remains of a monster. ...
L110 - The character swallows lots of people and/or animals. In the end, his stomach is ripped open, swallo...
L110a - The character swallows a person or (usually) a lot of people and animals, the hero kills the monster...
L110b - The stomach (spleen) taken out of the body of a pet or bird turns out to be a voracious monster. ...
L110c - Elderly spouses make a child out of clay (wood, straw). The doll comes to life, consistently eats ev...
L111 - Sky dwellers or shamans catch or want to catch people on earth with a hook, net, loop, etc., drag th...
L112 - A physically disabled boy is born (tiny, one head, half a body, etc.). After a series of adventures,...
L113 - A girl who usually rejects suitors for a long time falls in love with a handsome man who turns out t...
L114 - A group of boys or girls come to the demon's locus. A younger brother or sister or a sick, unfit cha...
L114a - One (usually the youngest) of a group of boys or girls (children) enters with them into the house of...
L114b - After receiving a task or on his own initiative, the cunning person enters the character's house (us...
L114b1 - The character consistently steals various objects from the ogre's house and finally catches or kills...
L114c - Children or young men (usually brothers) change clothes (hats, jewelry, blankets, places where they ...
L115 - girl who rejected her suitors finally finds someone she likes. The groom turns out to be a werewolf:...
L116 - cannibal (old man, gypsy) grabs the girl, carries her in a sack, makes her sing. People recognize th...
L116a - While chasing a roe deer (doe, deer), the hero finds himself in the locus of a demon or wizard; a ro...
L117 - A man is going to get married. An evil spirit, animal, etc. is forced to accompany him (usually help...
L118 - One character provokes another to stick his hand or paw into a split log (between two boards, etc.) ...
L118a - To get rid of a dangerous but stupid character, a person performs some actions that the character im...
L119 - The hero and antagonist fight in the air, tearing each other's dicks off. Usually, their allies on t...
L120 - After overhearing the conversation of demonic characters who are going to turn into something edible...
L120a - The hero hides in the forge from the dragon chasing him. When the monster breaks through, wipes the ...
L120b - The hero fights the snake and calls for help, but is not heard. Then he throws a piece of his shoes ...
L121 - An animal or cannibal (cannibal) turns into a woman and marries a hunter with the sole intention of ...
L121a - The hunter has the ability to avoid danger by turning into various objects. The werewolf wife tries ...
L122 - The character is riding a rooster. ...
L122a - The character is busy sewing up cracks in the ground, just like sewing up a torn cloth. (The motive ...
L123 - In order to confuse the pursuer, the character leaves traces in all directions before running. ...
L124 - A person extracts a vein, spinal cord, intestine from the demon's body, cuts out a strip of skin, or...
L124a - belt (vein, intestine, skin strip, etc.) dissects or burns what it is applied to (a tree or a person...
L125 - When a man meets a beauty, he finds her in a position where her inhuman nature appears. After that, ...
L125a - The woman with whom a man met is a creature of an inhuman nature. This becomes clear after at night,...
L125b - After following his wife (husband), the husband (wife) discovers that at night she or he goes to dev...
L126 - An anthropomorphic character cooks and eats a bird, but it gives a voice from its belly and gets out...
L127 - Once in another world, the character sees dancing body parts, etc. strange creatures. He shouldn't b...
L128 - When a demonic character or predator reveals who he is, a hero or herbivore responds with a name tha...
L129 - character is asked why his body parts, organs, tools are what they are. He answers (or the questione...
L129a - A wolf or demon is asked why his body parts and organs are what they are. He explains consistently. ...
L130 - Two or more characters have only one eye for everyone. ...
L131 - To get rid of a demonic woman or to make a bird or ladybug fly away, they are told that the locus wh...
L131a - To get rid of the demonic woman, she is told that the locus, where her house and/or children are, is...
L131b - To make a bird or ladybug fly away, they are told that the locus, where their home and/or children a...
L132 - When one of the members of a small (family) group, left alone, secretly eats food, this leads to a s...
L133 - The character keeps his limbs separately, connecting them to the body if necessary. ...
L134 - The hero's opponent (usually a demonic woman) is inside the sea wave (third, ninth) or embodies a wa...
L135 - Person leaves his (rare: her) home believing that his way back will take as much time as the way to ...
M1a - Cayman transports one of the brothers or a group of brothers, who then turn into the Pleiades. He us...
M1b - Cayman transports the monkey across the river; it manages to jump ashore, runs away from the caiman....
M2 - The hero descends from a tree or cliff on the back of an animal or on the backs of animals. ...
M3 - The character crosses a water or air barrier on the backs of chained animals, birds, or fish. ...
M3a - The character invites aquatic creatures to count them, and to do this, form a chain; crosses it to t...
M3b - Trying to grab a hare, another animal tears off (bites) its tail. It's been short ever since. ...
M4 - When crossing a pond or descending from a tree, the character (usually despite a warning) steps at a...
M5 - Once in a situation where his life depends on the will of a demon or animal, the hero feels like ins...
M5a - Small animal characters sail in the boat, it sinks, everyone escapes as best they can. ...
M5b - rat drowns, has difficulty getting to the shore (usually an aquatic animal takes it), and mocks othe...
M5c - The octopus or star-fish was covered with hair but the rat had eaten it up...
M5d - The squirrel and the creeping fish are smart and get medicines for each other...
M6 - A young man or girl spends night in the forest. The forest partridge (Tinamus sp.) provides him or h...
M7 - The character goes to the lower world, to the sky, to the country on the horizon, etc. and waits for...
M7a - Birds or animals take the character into their boat, but take on a zoomorphic appearance and leave t...
M7a1 - Person gets to a place from which he is unable to come out. Several (more than two) different celest...
M7b - zoomorphic character (usually a fox) finds himself in a place he can't get out of, and consistently ...
M7c - zoomorphic character is waiting to be transported across the water. Animals or fish consistently off...
M8 - Some characters (not humans) are struggling to break a strong barrier that prevents access to the de...
M8a - Animals, and more often birds, find it difficult to break through a rock from the outside or inside,...
M8b - Animals, and often birds, struggle to break through the rock to get water or honey hidden inside it....
M8c - Birds pierce through a layer of clay, wax, resin, etc., that covers the character's eyes or anus. ...
M8d - Birds break through the hard cover on the character's body to reach his entrails. ...
M9 - The character puts his head or hand in a hollow or (rarely) another hole), gets stuck in it, or fall...
M9a - A character who eagerly sucks honey from a hollow and/or gets stuck in a hollow turns into a tree fr...
M10 - girl or woman gets stuck in a hollow, extracting honey, or otherwise eagerly sucks honey and dies or...
M11 - A character gives others food extracted from his or someone else's body, or contaminated with body s...
M11a - The character gives others fish extracted from his body. ...
M11b - A woman feeds a man with benign meat or fat that she cuts off from her own flesh or removes from her...
M11c - Without harm to himself, the male character cuts off, pierces, roasts, holds a part of his body (or ...
M12 - Unable, unwilling or unable to catch game (fish), a hunter (fisherman) cuts flesh from his body, pul...
M13 - A person makes a request to the deity, and he fulfills it according to the letter, not the meaning. ...
M13a - Deity and man meet for the former to comply with the second's request. As a result, a person turns i...
M14a - Taking revenge on his wife or her relatives for the (alleged) offense, the husband roasts his wife a...
M15 - A man ties a girl or young woman to the top of a tree or puts her on the top of her head like a stak...
M16 - patient's wife or relatives (often mother) do not care about him. He is recovering, and those who tr...
M16a - A character (usually a loon) restores a person's eyesight and/or health by diving with him into the ...
M17 - A wife, mother or grandmother points the arrow of a blind man or boy at the game, lies as if he miss...
M17a - (Grand-)mother of a blind man or boy secretly eats meat or fish (usually acquired by her son or gran...
M17b - Wife of a blind man helps him to shoot a game but lies that he missed and secretly eats meat alone...
M18 - The hero turns into an object of fishing or hunting, exposing himself as a target for enemies. Arrow...
M18a - The character turns into an object of fishing or hunting, exposing himself as a target for enemies. ...
M18b - The character turns into a fishing object to carry the hook he is being caught on or the jail they a...
M19 - The character ties another (usually a child) to the end of the forest, using him as bait or forcing ...
M20 - The character removes fish or bait from the hooks; he is caught, his beak or jaw is damaged. Usually...
M21 - The character runs away from the pursuer. The person or animal that a person asks for help hides it....
M21a - The character is being chased by an enemy. The animal hides the fugitive in its mouth or on its body...
M21b - The character consistently damages others in such a way that each deceived person is used as a weapo...
M22 - long-necked bird living near the water (crane, heron, bittern, swan) helps the fugitive escape from ...
M22a - In a strange home, in a foreign country, where a hero, crane or heron enters is a watchman who must ...
M23 - The character pretends to be afraid of only one method of killing that isn't really dangerous for hi...
M23a - turtle says that before it can be eaten, it must be properly soaked in water, and once in the water,...
M24 - turtle goes to war and/or is captured. See M23 motif. Cf. motif K77 “Verlioka”. ...
M24a - turtle man goes to war, kills people (usually a woman). He gets caught or killed. In his animal form...
M25 - To take part in a festival in heaven or visit a deity, a flightless character manages to climb high ...
M26 - The character dives under waterfowl and ties a rope to their legs to catch them. Birds soar into the...
M26a - The character catches birds by feeding them bait tied to a rope, which they swallow one by one, or b...
M27 - The tree or staircase that people took to heaven collapses; on the way back, people fall down. Usual...
M28 - When able to take off, the character takes off but falls or stays in a remote place from where he ca...
M29a - See the motives in square brackets. ...
M29a1 - In three or more different episodes related to deception, absurd, obscene or anti-social behavior th...
M29b - Fox (a), Jackal, Coyote (or Wolf when, apparently, we mean a steppenwolf, i.e. the same coyote). See...
M29b1 - As a result of his stupidity or antisocial behavior, the wolf dies or suffers damage. See the motive...
M29b2 - As a result of its stupidity or antisocial behavior, the bear dies or suffers damage. See the motive...
M29b3 - As a result of its stupidity or antisocial behavior, the fox (jackal) dies or suffers damage. See th...
M29c - See the motives in square brackets. ...
M29d - See the motives in square brackets. ...
M29f - As a result of its stupidity or antisocial behavior, the wolverine dies or suffers damage. See the m...
M29g - See the motives in square brackets. They include traditions in which the hare/rabbit appears only as...
M29g1 - In episodes involving deception, ridiculous, obscene, or antisocial behavior, the hare or rabbit is ...
M29g2 - Cancer (crab) defeats or deceives strong opponents by cunning. ...
M29gg - hedgehog defeats or deceives strong opponents by cunning. ...
M29h - See the motives in square brackets. ...
M29i - See the motives in square brackets. ...
M29j - See the motives in square brackets. ...
M29k - A turtle (toad, frog) defeats strong opponents by cunning or perseverance. See the motives in square...
M29k1 - A turtle (toad, frog) gets into unpleasant situations due to its own stupidity or carelessness. See ...
M29l - See the motives in square brackets. ...
M29m - See the motives in square brackets. ...
M29n - See the motives in square brackets. ...
M29nn - See the motives in square brackets. ...
M29o - See the motives in square brackets. ...
M29o1 - As a result of its stupidity or antisocial behavior, the monkey dies or suffers damage. See the moti...
M29p - See the motives in square brackets. ...
M29q - See the motives in square brackets. ...
M29qq - See the motives in square brackets. ...
M29r - See the motives in square brackets. ...
M29v - The character defeats or deceives strong opponents using cunning. The protagonists are dwarf ungulat...
M29w - As a result of their stupidity or antisocial behavior, a jaguar (puma, ocelot) dies or suffers damag...
M29w1 - As a result of their stupidity or antisocial behavior, the leopard (panther, leopard) dies or suffer...
M29w2 - As a result of its stupidity or antisocial behavior, the tiger dies or suffers damage. See the motiv...
M29w3 - As a result of its stupidity or antisocial behavior, the lion dies or suffers damage. See the motive...
M29x - As a result of its stupidity or antisocial behavior, the hyena dies or suffers damage. See the motiv...
M29x1 - See the motives in square brackets. ...
M29y - See the motives in square brackets. ...
M29z - hero of the story is a character named “Beardless” or Aldar-Kose (Aldar is a “deceiver”, a b...
M29z1 - purely anthropomorphic character, or a character who bears the name of an animal or plant but does n...
M29z2 - Being smart and witty, the Gipsy overcomes strong adversaries...
M29z3 - The Gipsy (more often a female than a male) is an enemy overcome by the hero (heroine) or (rare) a w...
M30 - character who has no natural wings or can't fly long distances rises into the air, but falls or, hav...
M30a - The character flying over the village falls, is tied up, and defecated on him. ...
M30b - Birds give a non-flying or ugly character feathers so that he can fly or become beautiful, but then ...
M30c - A character flying through the air falls, violating the ban on talking, looking down, flying over vi...
M30d - To get into the air, a character without wings (usually a turtle or a frog) grabs a stick with the e...
M31 - A character who can't swim asks another to take him by water. He agrees, but throws the rider into t...
M32 - The character swallows food or water, or his own entrails, pieces of flesh flow out and fall out of ...
M32a - character's insides or pieces of flesh fall out of his back. He eats them, mistaking them for regula...
M33 - The character plugs or seals his anus tightly (with wax, clay, grass, etc.), or someone else does it...
M34 - An object is thrown at the character, which turns into a tail, and the character himself into a corr...
M35 - Two zoomorphic characters compete to see which of them will spend the whole night in the cold and st...
M36 - The character finds himself inside wood, stone, ice, etc. He or someone else makes a hole, but it's ...
M37 - Although the character's head or entire body is cut in two with an ax or split with a stick, the cha...
M38 - Person sees how others act using magic or according to their animal nature. He or she imitates their...
M38a - On a visit, the character sees how the owner acts with magic or techniques that suit his nature (in ...
M38a1 - The character imitates the sisters' sons-in-law or husbands, or the wife's brothers (shoshone's) or ...
M38a2 - The hen (other bird) cooks her own eggs and serves them to other animal persons (who imitated her wi...
M38b - The first wife, rejected or taken later than others, performs certain actions with the help of magic...
M38b1 - After the wedding, the wife is silent until her husband says certain words that indicate her origin....
M38b2 - Each of the three brothers comes to his father with his wife (fiancée). The younger brother or his ...
M38b3b - Mighty bird (more rare other creature/mythological person) helps a man (rare: a woman) because he (s...
M38c - blacksmith (supposedly) forges a person, rejuvenating or revitalizing him. ...
M38c1 - The character (supposedly) forges a person, rejuvenating or reviving him, the other unsuccessfully t...
M38c2 - To shove a horse or donkey, Jesus (the saint) cuts off his leg, nails a horseshoe to his hoof, and a...
M38c3 - A conceited smith attempts to rejuvenate an old woman (man). His magic helper tries to save the vict...
M38d - Two or more characters, which are small objects or small animals, live or travel together and die on...
M38d1 - bubble-head, the straw leg, the hair-neck are successively dying, trying to act like ordinary people...
M38d2 - Several characters (usually three), which are small objects, go traveling and must cross the river. ...
M38d3 - The character, who is a lump of earth (oatmeal, salt), blurred in the rain or after going to get wat...
M38d4 - Several characters that embody small objects (and a squirrel with them) travel together. The needle ...
M38d5 - Two or three types of cereals talk to each other, act together, etc. ...
M38d6 - Several characters embody small objects and die one at a time. The last one left laughs and rejoices...
M38d7 - Person who represents something fat (a sausage, a piece of fat, etc.) prepares a rich soup adding to...
M38e - mushroom (pumpkin) thinks that it is as durable as a tree. ...
M39a - fool lives with his brother (and mother), is sent on business, does ridiculous things (all or part o...
M39a1 - character misunderstands the first instruction, promises to do the right thing next time; literally ...
M39a2 - The character does ridiculous things, understanding the instructions too literally or one episode la...
M39a2a - fool buys spoons and/or a table, tells the table to go on its own feet, throws away spoons because t...
M39a2b - After buying salt or sugar, a fool pours them into a pond to salt or sweeten the water. ...
M39a2c - A fool (or a character pretending to be crazy) sows salt (small objects) like a grain. ...
M39a2d - Fools plant meat, horns, or bones in the hope of raising animals. ...
M39a2e - Forgetting his name, a fool remembers it when he accidentally hears a word. ...
M39a3 - fool kills a man, throws him into a pond, well, etc. A clever man throws a goat there. A fool search...
M39a3a - fool sees cracked objects (stumps, earth, ice), sympathizes with them and oils them. ...
M39a3b - fool decides that stumps need hats, puts pots on the stumps. ...
M39a4 - fool takes his own shadow for a character chasing him and gives her his property. ...
M39a4a - fool sells or gives an animal (plant, statue) meat, pet, cloth, etc., believing that the buyer will ...
M39a4b - foolish woman thinks that frogs will make yarn or cloth for her, or buy yarn and throw the material ...
M39a4b1 - Foolish woman throws her yarn ways (into the water, into the bush) and believes that somebody with w...
M39a4c - Fool sells property to birds and believes that they will pay him. Trying to get his money, he finds ...
M39a4d - Fool sells property a lizard and believes it will pay him. Trying to get his money, he finds treasur...
M39a4e - Fool sells property to a tree (stump, pole, a cross in the countryside) and believes that it will pa...
M39a4f - Fool sells property to the statue and believes that it will pay him. Trying to get his money, he fin...
M39a4g - Fool sells property to the dogs and believes that they will pay him. Trying to get his money, he fin...
M39a5 - fool led the goats to the fruit tree and killed them because they ate the fruit he had thrown. ...
M39a5a - Realizing that a stupid son, wife or (rarely) husband, after telling the truth, will cause trouble f...
M39a5a1 - Realizing that a son or wife, by telling the truth, will cause trouble for the family, the mother or...
M39a5a2 - My husband found a treasure. He knows his wife will talk about it. In order not to believe her, her ...
M39a5a3 - Realizing that a wife telling the truth will cause trouble for the family, the husband says that the...
M39a5b - The wife throws fish into the furrows or into the beds. My husband believes that the fish ended up t...
M39a6 - During the journey, a person allegorically asks someone else to say something, sing, etc., so that t...
M39a6a - After a long search, the ruler finds an intelligent wife for his son. At the mercy of his enemies, h...
M39a6b - The ruler, to whom the master builder went to work, is going to kill or maim him. The master asks to...
M39a6c - The poor girl agrees to marry the prince only if he learns a craft. The prince fulfills the conditio...
M39a6d - One of the relatives or spouses transfers a text or object to the other through third parties. Only ...
M39a6f - The father tells his son to sell the sheep (goat) and return it along with the proceeds. Usually a g...
M39a6g - person explains that he lends part of his earnings, and pays the debt in the other part, i.e. raises...
M39a6h - The king tells the commoner to pluck a goose (geese, shear a ram, etc.). He understands correctly: t...
M39a6i - A person sends food or things to another and tells the messenger to give the recipient some words th...
M39a7 - When instructed to wash the old man with warm water, the fool steams him with boiling water. ...
M39a8 - A fool drags the door from the house with him (usually raises it to a tree and drops it, scaring the...
M39a8a - A fool or buffoon climbs a tree taking a heavy objects with him and then drops it frightening those ...
M39a8b - Using a stratagem, someone who hides in a tree cuts (bits) off the tongue of a dangerous person and ...
M39a9 - The character asks a member of his family to bring vegetable products, cook food, and feed someone. ...
M39b - A person does not notice that he turned and swam back on the way, so he takes his home for enemies, ...
M39b1 - Once in the boat, some people row in one direction and others in the opposite direction, the boat re...
M39c - A fool is told that a round fruit is a mare's egg (donkeys, elephants, etc.). A fool buys fruit for ...
M39d - A person consistently and unintentionally harms others. The victims take him to a judge. He saves a ...
M39e - When reviewing the dispute, the judge asks about the secondary circumstances of the case. The offend...
M39e1 - A person appropriates property. The owner or his assistant puts the kidnapper in such a position tha...
M39e1a - The character claims that the mice ate iron (gold). ...
M39e2 - Two people hid their valuables together, and one of them secretly took them. He suggests asking the ...
M39f - A fool is left headless (usually trying to get into a bear's den). When asked whether the deceased h...
M39g - The girl weeps, imagining the dangers that threaten her future child; remembering an incident that c...
M39g1 - fool does not pull pants or boots over his feet, but jumps in them from above. ...
M39g2 - Numskulls try to shovel nuts with a pitchfork. F stranger shows them how to do this work more easily...
M39h - The wife wants to get rid of her husband and usually asks the spirit to blind him. The husband hides...
M39i - After going broke, a person decides to hang himself, but finds gold (specially put by the father whe...
M40 - The character is sent to get something relatively low in value. He asks for something else and shout...
M41 - The character throws his eyes (an inhaler has a tooth) up or into the distance. At first they return...
M42 - The character takes his eyes out of his orbits and loses them. He usually regains his eyes later, ma...
M42a - The character (usually after losing his own eyes) inserts seeds or berries into his eye sockets and ...
M42b - After losing his eyes, the character makes new ones out of resin or wax, sees again (often this is a...
M42c - Falling off a cliff and breaking his leg, the character eats his bone marrow. ...
M43 - To kill or catch a monster, he sees a figure made of wood or clay or a living person. Most often, a ...
M44a - The character discovers that someone is stealing game or fish from his trap, mountain, etc. or ravag...
M44b - The character discovers that someone is stealing game or fish from his trap, mountain, etc. or ravag...
M44c - A young hero steals the older character's food. He is usually caught, but not punished, but invited ...
M45 - When a zoomorphic character falls asleep or pretends to be dead (seriously ill), the animals he usua...
M45a - A person is sleeping or pretending to be asleep or dead. Animals take him for a dead man - they mour...
M45b - The old man carries a trough and lies down to rest, covered with it. The animals take the trough to ...
M45c - The character advises the other person to plant or sow boiled or roasted seeds or tubers, who follow...
M46 - Some creatures steal or own valuables. To return (get) them, the character turns into a small object...
M46a - The character turns into a baby, is picked up by the owners of valuables, and then steals valuables ...
M46b - The character turns into a tiny object or creature, swallowing or touching which a woman (usually a ...
M46c - The character turns into a needle, a garbage, a small insect. A woman swallows it and becomes pregna...
M46d - A small child cries and calms down only after being given a valuable item hidden in the house to pla...
M46e - They (promise to) give a child the Sun (and or the Moon) to play with...
M47 - When punishing a person or animal or restoring a dismembered body, a character intentionally or acci...
M48 - Trickster asks another zoomorphic character to turn him into a creature of his kind, but if he break...
M49 - The hero meets a character from the enemy camp and, taking on his form, penetrates enemies. Usually,...
M49a - hero needs to penetrate unnoticed into the locus of dangerous creatures; he meets an old woman (usua...
M50 - The character tries to join a group of stars (usually the Pleiades) or catch up with characters who ...
M51 - One of the two characters gets meat. The weaker deceives the stronger one, hiding the meat in his ab...
M52 - The character (by deception) kills an ungulates. He asks another to refresh the carcass, looks for a...
M53 - The character invites others to gather around him, focusing on an activity (usually dancing with the...
M53a - raven gathers seals or other marine mammals around and deceives them into killing them. ...
M53b - Trickster claims he's carrying songs in his bag. See M53 motif. ...
M53c - trickster, inviting birds to dance around him with their eyes closed, kills them one at a time and t...
M53d - The character pretends to be enemies coming; when people run away in fear, the character takes what ...
M53e - A character (always a raven) kills a whale and points others to imaginary signs that whale meat is n...
M53f - The character is involved in preparing food supplies. After leaving under some pretext, he returns i...
M54 - The character lives or stays at someone else's house; then goes far away, falls asleep, but wakes up...
M55 - A human or weaker animal character takes a stronger character to sleep in a supposedly dangerous pla...
M56a - A weak character hits a crocodile, but the crocodile is safe. He says he would be killed if the atta...
M56b - A weak character is tasked with bringing the skin (paw, tears, etc.) of animals that are stronger th...
M56c - The character promises to bring a snake. The snake agrees to have the character measure its length. ...
M56d - The character promises to fill the vessel with small flying living creatures. He bets with them that...
M57a - Instead of the usual secretions from the human body, beads, flowers, gold and other valuables pour i...
M57a1 - When a beautiful woman walks on the ground, jewels appear under her feet, flowers bloom, etc....
M57a2 - Instead of common body discharges a a man urinates, spits, etc. beads, flowers, gold and other valua...
M57a3 - Instead of common body discharges a a woman urinates, spits, etc. beads, flowers, gold and other val...
M57b - Beads or metals are the bodily secretions of a deity. ...
M57c - An animal (donkey, bull, horse, goat, bear, leopard) or inanimate object makes gold or food stand ou...
M57c1 - A man fights a bear or (Malayali) leopard and makes another person believe that this animal is defec...
M57d - A person consistently receives magical items that bring wealth. Others replace them or take them awa...
M57d1 - bird consistently gives a person magical objects (or gives one, with which he receives the rest) or ...
M57d2 - The man was about to cut down a tree. It himself, or the creature living on it or in it, asks not to...
M57d3 - A person receives a reward from a character who is associated with the wind. Cf. Motive K175 (“The...
M57d4 - A person receives a reward from a character who is associated with frost. ...
M58 - The earth is burning, the fire is chasing the character. A number of elements and objects refuse to ...
M59 - A small animal asks a large one to transport it across the river; consistently rejects all the seats...
M59a - After asking a large animal to transport it across the river, a porcupine kills or damages it. See M...
M60 - After injuring a demon (robber), the hero goes to his locus. There he, or (rarely) his assistant, pr...
M60a - The creature/character runs away or swims away with a hook, harpoon, arrow, or other object thrown b...
M60a1 - The hero meets a servant (usually a shepherd) and takes his form, after asking how he acts, how he t...
M60a2 - The servant must lick the master or mistress's feet or wound. The hero comes disguised as a servant ...
M60a3 - Avenging the seized property (a pet or a bird), the hero repeatedly comes to the offender in differe...
M60b - The deceiver, promising to cure a wounded or sick person, finishes him off and eats him or offers a ...
M60b1 - The crow promises to cure the fish, and eats it herself. ...
M61a - To get valuables, the character provokes a quarrel between their owners. When they start fighting ea...
M61a1 - The character (always a raven) provokes a seagull to quarrel with another bird, telling each one tha...
M61a2 - The character provokes a quarrel between two stones of different breeds. To do this, he told everyon...
M61a3 - The character tells each of two different species of fish how the other allegedly used to be hostile...
M62a - The hero quietly damages each of the two characters; they accuse each other, quarrel, fight. ...
M62b - Two or more characters aim their weapons at the hero in between, but they hit each other. ...
M62c - A weak character takes turns negotiating with two strong ones to compete in a tug of war. They don't...
M62d - trickster wears rotten skin, pretends to be another animal, and says that the name (i.e. himself) ha...
M62e - A weak character alternately negotiates with two strong ones to cultivate the site. Each of the stro...
M62f - The character asks others to come to him (to help him with his work or get a debt). Those called com...
M63 - Before reaching the part of the body that is most suitable for certain purposes, others are named or...
M64 - The character comes to the owner of valuables (food, fire) and pretends that he already owns them. A...
M65 - trickster bakes meat obtained by trick, deception; immobilized by sticking to a tree, ground, or sto...
M65a - The trees are creaking in the wind. Hearing a creak, the character climbs a tree and gets stuck. See...
M65b - Having resorted to deception, the character kills the game, but the thieves take the loot. See M53 m...
M66 - After eating certain foods frivolously or rubbing his body with his spine, the character suffers fro...
M66a - After eating a certain food, the trickster leaves a mountain of excrement that is larger than himsel...
M67 - By stupidity or carelessness, the character causes a wind that blows him away. See the M66 motif (Th...
M68 - Because of his own stubbornness, the character suffers from an irrepressible gas eruption and scares...
M69 - character is attracted by the inside of a large animal's skull (small animals or insects are dancing...
M70 - The oldest character poisons the youngest with his intestinal gases. ...
M70a - A character on whom an old woman defecates or whose face blows the winds pierces her from below with...
M71 - A character (usually carried away by a river or fallen from a height) turns into a piece of wood. So...
M72 - The character puts his hand into the anus of a tapir or other large herbivore and is unable to pull ...
M73 - Two characters compare their excrement or vomit to learn about each other's diet and decide which of...
M73a - Two (animal) persons compare their feces (with different purpose). One of them gets to exchange them...
M74 - A weak character regurgitates previously swallowed unusual food, or replaces his belching with a str...
M74a - The character pretends to be invited to visit several times in connection with the birth of a child,...
M74aa - The character (several times) pretends to be his name (that he is going to visit), and eats up suppl...
M74ab - Travelling in a boat or on a sledge, animal person (always the fox) steals food supplies or ruins ob...
M74b - The character adjusts so that the sign that identifies the thief who ate supplies or who should be e...
M74c - Having noticed the woodpecker's beautiful plumage, the wolf or bear believes that the fox painted it...
M74d - God (the saint) travels with his companion. When he leaves, he eats the kidneys (heart, etc.) and sa...
M74e - Two characters ask the third to share something edible between them. He bites off a little bit from ...
M75 - The character attracts and catches corpse eaters (usually birds) and as a result obtains valuables o...
M75a - The character lures a veteran to avenge his fall from the sky. Either the (potauatomi) shovel drops ...
M75b - A person hides in the skin or carcass of a large animal. A bird brings a skin or carcass to the nest...
M75b1 - A person (usually of high status) learns that a poor boy who is born will inherit his property or be...
M75b1a - A high-ranking person finds out that a (just born) poor or ugly girl is intended for him, or the gir...
M75b2 - bird tries in vain to prevent the marriage, which she learned was inevitable when the future spouses...
M75b3 - Enemies are shown a life-size or larger image of a horse or bull. Not realizing that this is a ruse,...
M75b4 - To master a woman, the hero hides inside the hollow figure of a horse (bull, deer) or in an animal c...
M75c - A person is offered to climb a rock or tree to get treasures. A return descent is not possible. Doom...
M75d - A man bereaves vultures of their hunting weapons or amulets...
M76 - A woman cuts off a man's leg when he climbs a tree; a man cuts off a woman's leg when she climbs a t...
M77 - The character stains another's clothes or bed with sewage or something that looks like sewage, threa...
M78 - A tiny little man performs a series of tricks, mocks people he meets and opponents. ...
M78a - A tiny little man emerges from the severed tail of a goat or sheep. ...
M78b - Wishing a baby, a childless woman gives birth to many tiny boys. She or her husband kill them or thr...
M78c - A tiny little man emerges from a severed finger. ...
M78d - A tiny boy (rarely a girl) comes from a pea (bean, seed) or from a spool of goat droppings, he is al...
M78e - A tiny boy comes from an animal's ear, compared in size to an ear, his name is “ear”. ...
M78f - When a woman falls asleep, a joker (usually a tiny boy) places an embryo or the entrails of an anima...
M78g - When the inhabitants of the house fall asleep, a joker (usually a tiny boy) ties them together in pa...
M79 - A person joins the dancers; it turns out that the dancers are reeds or trees in the wind. ...
M80 - The character insults a partridge bird, kills or offends its chickens; the partridge suddenly takes ...
M81 - Wandering, the hero finds himself in a place where blind or blind (two or more) live. ...
M81a - The hero meets two blind women and makes them sighted. These women are birds (geese, ducks, hazel gr...
M81b - The character is warned not to try to reach an arrow if it gets stuck in a tree. He breaks the ban a...
M81c - A person goes to heaven or (rarely) to the lower world, where he meets blind people (one or two), us...
M81d - A person meets (most often in the sky) one or two blind people and restores their sight. ...
M81e - young man undertakes to herd cattle and is warned not to cross the borders of a giant, dragon, witch...
M81e1 - A young man lives with an old man whose eyes or eyes were carried away by a giant. The young man goe...
M81e2 - By playing an instrument or otherwise, a character is able to attract an animal or person far away f...
M81f - blind beggar robs an honest man. He watches him and, when he enters the house, takes everything the ...
M82 - The character sees that something is tied to the other's tail. He also wants such a tail for himself...
M82a - One animal person inconspicuously ties rattles to the tail of another. The latter thinks that he is ...
M83 - Each character claims that he is older and appeared before this world or (Ingush) that his father wa...
M83a - The characters are arguing which one is older. After some people tell us how long they were born, th...
M83b - Two (or more) characters agree to give food to whoever has the best dream. One talks about a feast h...
M83c - Animals argue who of them gets drunk easier. The last one falls down because he becomes drunk as soo...
M84 - A person, animal, fish, or (rarely) a large fruit is killed and eaten. After a meal, what is eaten r...
M84a - After supernatural characters put the bones of a dead and eaten deer, cow, ram, or goat in its skin,...
M84b - An animal, bird or fish that is killed and eaten comes to life after its bones are thrown into the w...
M84b1 - A person enters a country from where fish come to people (and comes back). ...
M84b2 - The character carefully preserves the bones of migratory birds eaten (not fish or animals) and the b...
M84c - Sleeping in a deserted place, a person finds himself among spirits. One of them explains that he has...
M84d - A person hears trees talking, one of which is (fatally) ill and suffers. ...
M85 - character unable to climb a tree threatens to knock it down or climb a trunk if a bird or squirrel d...
M86 - A rock stalks or otherwise punishes a character when he unfairly insults her (usually takes away her...
M87 - The character comes to a place that is abandoned or seems to have been abandoned by the inhabitants....
M88 - The character follows the dancing girls and dies. ...
M89 - A character is humiliated after an object or creature made of wax, resin, or excrement that he made ...
M89a - Only horned animals are allowed to attend the festival. The hyena makes fake horns for itself, expos...
M90 - Someone asks a riddle about the material from which a particular item is made or originated. It is a...
M90a - The girl will marry the person who guessed her name, or someone who will fit the ring, or someone wh...
M90a1 - It is required to sew clothes from the skin of lice (fleas) or guess the origin of a large animal, a...
M90a2 - It should be guessed that the plant grew from a part of the body of a man or a snake or from dirt sc...
M90a3 - plant grows from a killed snake or part of a snake's body. ...
M90a4 - A tree is described on which jewelry or ornaments hang instead of fruits; individual parts of the tr...
M90a5 - The story mentions the golden fruits (rarely leaves) of a tree, usually golden apples. ...
M90a6 - Owning some apples ensures eternal youth. ...
M90b - The character was wrong when he claimed that the sun would never rise in the west or go down after m...
M90c - man agreed with another that he could take the first thing he touched from his house. The visitor is...
M91 - Pretending that the deceased has just been alive for a relatively long time, the character accuses o...
M91a - The character pierces a container of animal blood or other red liquid, simulating murder or suicide....
M91b - A person manages to fraudulently sell or exchange ash for gold and money. Others are unsuccessfully ...
M91b1 - A man is going to sell a pet skin. On the way, he gets big money by deception or by chance. Usually,...
M91c1 - The character (pretends to) take possession of someone's property (usually setting the owner to be k...
M91c2 - character is placed in a bag or chest, locked in a cage, tied, etc., to drown, burn, etc. When left ...
M91c3 - A person releases an animal or a bird - supposedly with his wife instructing his wife to cook food, ...
M91c4 - A person removes the pot from the fire, its contents continue to boil, or the person prepares food i...
M91c5 - The person himself or his little son goes to the bazaar to sell a cow (or another large pet). The cr...
M91c6 - A person sells a hat to others, convincing them that it pays the bill, you just have to lift it up (...
M91c7 - When enemies come to kill a person, he pretends to be dead. ...
M91d - The character deceives others by passing off the dead as alive, directing suspicions of murder to in...
M92 - Something red is glued to the character's eyelashes, he thinks it's a fire. ...
M93 - When falling asleep or going to do something else, the character tells a certain part of his body to...
M93a - The character punishes a part of his body (burns his ass, breaks his eyes) for not sounding the alar...
M94 - One character invites the other to roll down the mountain to destroy him. Cf. Motive L42C. ...
M94a - The demonic character kills his victims, provoking them to slide down the mountain. ...
M94a1 - By stupidity or negligence, a zoomorphic character rolls down a mountain and as a result dies or suf...
M94b - The character is lured to look under the mill wheel, he dies or is maimed. ...
M94b1 - The character is lured to look under the mill wheel, he dies or is maimed. ...
M95 - weaker character asks a stronger character to take the gift to his family and climbs into a basket, ...
M96 - In order not to share with family members, the character pretends to have guests and eats everything...
M97 - Blinded or far from the target, the character walks, bumping into trees of various species and askin...
M98 - The character counts the number of members in two huge and alternative sets (dead and alive, men and...
M99 - The character is going to abuse all birds or (less commonly) animals, but after hearing wise advice,...
M99a - The character is going to build a house (tower, etc.) from the bones or feathers of birds. ...
M99a1 - The character is going to pierce all the birds with their beaks (to string them on a rope) or cut th...
M100 - One of the characters encourages the other to go to bed on the edge of a cliff. At night he offers t...
M100a - One of the characters encourages the other to jump off a high cliff or tree, because this is what th...
M100b - One of the characters encourages the other to jump off a high cliff or tree, because this is what th...
M101 - The bear replies to the fox (rarely a sable, a wolf) that he is not afraid of people (he usually say...
M101a - Having learned that a person is supposedly stronger than him, a large predator finds a person and of...
M101b - A big predator wants to see humans. First he meets a child and finds out that he is a future person,...
M102 - The character believes that the other has temporarily separated his head or leg from himself, asks t...
M103 - One character asks another how her (his) children acquired valuable qualities (became beautiful, obe...
M104 - The character offers another to kill close relatives (children, brothers, mother), hides his own, cl...
M105 - The character hides his mother (wife, mother-in-law), but tells another that he killed or sold her, ...
M105a - The character hides his children, but tells the other person that he killed them, he believes. See M...
M106 - The character calls himself a made-up name that others understand not as their own, but as a househo...
M106a - The character who caused the damage calls himself a made-up name like “Nobody”, “I Myself”, ...
M106b - The character who harmed the antagonist calls himself a made-up name like “Last Year”, and other...
M106c - After telling his companions that his name is “Guest”, “For Guests”, etc., the character app...
M106d - saying that his name is “Son-in-law” (“Husband”, “Uncle”, etc.), the character deceives ...
M106e - A person says that supplies are made for winter, in case of need, etc. In the absence of the owner, ...
M106f - A stranger tells a woman he came from the dead. A woman gives him money and things with a request to...
M106g - A person lifts a cow (donkey, ox, wife) to the roof so that the animal eats the grass that grew ther...
M106h - A man puts his hat on the ground and pretends that there is something valuable underneath it. It's a...
M107 - A small character kills or maims a large four-legged dog by clutching its genitals. ...
M108 - The character calls to help him do the work (usually transporting property or provisions across the ...
M108a - Single elderly spouses adopt a trickster. He steals them (and runs away). ...
M108b - A deceiver carries away (in a boat) some person’s possessions. A small bird (usually a woodpecker)...
M109 - zoomorphic character sits down with his tail (penis) down so that something edible sticks to him, bu...
M109a - One zoomorphic character advises another to sit on the ice for a long time - usually until food fall...
M109a1 - zoomorphic character covers his head with dough (yogurt, butter, etc.) to show that his brain is bei...
M109b - A weaker character convinces the stronger one that he feels even worse than that one. Usually, the s...
M109c - The character is quietly tied to the tail and tries to escape (successfully or unsuccessfully). Cf. ...
M109d - zoomorphic character drops his tongue or tail into the water. The octopus or shell grabs it and hold...
M110 - Upon learning that it is being transported by water to eat, the land animal explains to the carrier ...
M111 - Two animals (usually a monkey and a turtle) agree to collect fruits. A person who knows how to climb...
M112 - zoomorphic character refuses to dig, clean, or fill a drinking water source and is not allowed to us...
M112a - Animals take turns protecting water or food, or using water. The deceiver takes what he needs or pre...
M112b - Animals that now do not see the sun (mole, shrew, earthworm) refuse to build a road together with ev...
M113 - In summer, at the height of the heat or constantly, birds of a certain species should not drink from...
M113a - A certain bird cannot drink water from rivers and lakes because instead of water it sees blood, fire...
M114 - character is asked to make (or does make) a rope or other object out of sand, ash, smoke, etc....
M114a - character is asked to sew clothes or shoes from stone or iron, or to remove the skin from the stone....
M114b - When a character is asked to do something at the same time and not to do something or not to do them...
M114b1 - When asked what is the sweetest thing (fat, fast, etc.), the clever calls abstract concepts and enti...
M114b2 - A man (a powerful character) asks a girl (subordinate) a question about the number of routine action...
M114b3 - When a girl is asked to prepare cloth from a handful of yarn, she asks to prepare for her weaving to...
M114c - The character wonders how the other's clothes (firewood, etc.) were dry after the rain - he covered ...
M114d - A person eats boiled eggs and leaves without paying. Much later he returns to repay the debt. The ow...
M114d1 - The character demands to remove the chickens (from boiled eggs) in a day, raise a chicken, and cook ...
M114e - The girl suggests that the visitor tie his horse to winter or summer, which means to a sleigh or a c...
M114f - The girl has a minor bodily defect. Man: The house is nice, but the pipe is crooked. Girl: But the s...
M114g - Only a boy, a young man, cleverly answers questions from a powerful character. When he asks why some...
M114h - A powerful character tells you to build a house hanging in the air. A person finds a witty way out o...
M114i - When asked where her father, mother, brother, etc., is answered by a girl or boy in such a way that ...
M114i1 - Person answers that his father (brother, etc.) is hunting; those animals that he gets to see. kills ...
M114j - The woman does not refuse the one who harasses her, but calmly explains that it makes no sense to tr...
M114k - liquid that is not normally used for drinking or cooking has been used once. You have to guess what ...
M115 - The character cunningly kills a dangerous predator. Relatives or friends of the victim find out abou...
M116 - People should kill their fathers (or mothers; nyoro: deprive them of power and property; Baluchis: d...
M116a - A man drags his father, intending to leave him to die in a deserted place, take him to an almshouse,...
M116b - monster drives people away. The old man gives advice on how to kill him in an ambush. ...
M117 - A fox or other predator asks the bird what it does when the wind blows. The bird shows how it puts i...
M118 - The character gets valuables or gets shelter inside an animal, tree, or room. Another follows suit, ...
M118a - chieftain brings robbers into the courtyard of someone else's house, hiding them in empty jugs, barr...
M118b - Once inside the animal, the character gets food there without harming the animal. ...
M119 - A character repeatedly shows another the same object or creature; another believes that there are as...
M120 - zoomorphic character undertakes to take care of another's children (raise them, teach them, treat th...
M120a - The character pretends to be a mourner, eats the dead (treats the body disrespectfully). ...
M120b - The character looks for a nanny (nurse, crying, shepherd, husband) and consistently rejects those wh...
M120c - Two animals agree to raise their children together. One of them eats the other's children, continuin...
M121 - louse or other similar creatures (flea, tick, firefly) are sent to follow a specific character. ...
M122 - In a difficult situation, the character asks for advice from his tail, penis or some creatures in hi...
M123 - A bird of prey or scavenger (crow, owl, hawk, coyote) marries (or tries to do so) with a partner who...
M123a - raven marries or tries to marry, posing as a leader and a handsome man. One day they notice someone ...
M123b - Trickster tricksters his wife and takes her away by boat. The woman asks for permission to go ashore...
M123c - non-migratory bird goes south with migratory birds, but is unable to reach the end. ...
M123d - Raven groom is rejected after the bride or her relatives discover that he is eating carrion or sewag...
M124 - The character buries the pet's tail (head, ears), claiming that it has fallen into the ground. He us...
M125 - The character lies to another like he's eating his own eyes. The other one agrees to eat hers. The f...
M126 - A person sees a talking skull (turtle) and reports it to the leader, the king. In the presence of th...
M127 - The character escapes, but is left without a tail (without an ear), and then tries to make other mem...
M127a - When asked by the character to laugh or feed him, the bird sits on the head of a person or cattle or...
M127b - The character attaches a vessel or part of it to the body, lowers it into the water, and the vessel ...
M127c - Seeing an object deliberately abandoned or accidentally thrown, or hearing a sound it makes, the cha...
M128 - Having agreed with the enemy that he will get animals with certain external characteristics or behav...
M129 - A parent or parent is going to transfer birthright (royalty, other virtues) to a chosen son. Another...
M130 - fox and the bird hide from the hunter in the same hole or hollow. The bird pretends to be dead and a...
M130a - The deceiver lures the animal into the hunter's trap. Another animal advises the victim to pretend t...
M130b - herbivore falls into the trap of a hunter. The predator does not want to release him because he hope...
M130c - When a lion (tiger, bear, elephant, human) is trapped, a mouse or rat releases it (usually gnawing t...
M131 - The character does not show that he is grabbed by the tail or leg. The other thinks he's grabbed the...
M132 - The enemy is ready to capture the character. He asks to take and throw away his clothes or shoes fir...
M132a - The predator thinks that a hornless herbivore has horns and is afraid of it, but it's just ears. ...
M133 - A cumulative fairy tale: a bird is injured on a thorny plant, asks him to punish, everyone refuses b...
M134 - Animals stand on top of each other to get something. The lowest one pops up, everyone falls after hi...
M134a - predator/cannibal blows and destroys a fragile house, but cannot destroy a solid one. Usually, two o...
M134b - When a predator is about to eat a person, he asks for permission to measure him first and hits him w...
M134c - zoomorphic character climbs into the cellar (pantry, garden, etc.) and eats up so much that he can't...
M135 - Two ungulates - usually after the wolf agrees to divide the meadow between them - butt the predator ...
M135a - wolf (rarely a bear, jackal, fox) approaches various pets (less often only one animal) to eat them, ...
M135b - Wolf (rare: jackal, fox) comes to different domestic animals (rare: only to one animal) to eat them ...
M136 - Some people don't know what to do with cutting guns; they try to use instead tools that are not suit...
M136a - People are trying to bring light, darkness, smoke, etc. into or out of the room....
M136b - A person cuts a branch on which he sits and similar options (cuts the rope on which he climbed up; c...
M136c - fool takes a passerby for a visionary and asks when he will die. He jokingly replies that this will ...
M136d - A person dreams of becoming rich little by little and forgets that this has not happened yet. As a r...
M136e - A man complains that large trees have small fruits. When an acorn (nut, pear) falls on his head, he ...
M137 - weaker predator tries to imitate a stronger one, but cannot do things that a powerful one does easil...
M138 - At first, everyone was given 20 or 30 years of age. This is a lot for animals, but not enough for hu...
M138a - At the beginning of time, a supreme deity or his messengers decided that the human lifespan would be...
M139 - fox caught the birds and packed them in a bag. Another character quietly swapped them with thorns. ...
M140 - The character pretends to be dead, sick, or weak, picked up, and eats food carried by others-usually...
M140a - fox cunningly connects a wolf or person and runs away. ...
M140b - The fox cunningly connects the wolf. A bird unties it, a grateful wolf adorns its plumage. See b97, ...
M141 - Several animals of different species find themselves in a hole from which they can't get out. They d...
M141a - In a collection of different animals, one of those present describes the weakest as irrelevant to th...
M141b - animal takes an insignificant event (a leaf, an acorn falls, etc.) as the beginning of a catastrophe...
M142 - zoomorphic character accuses his tail of only preventing him from escaping the chase (he usually pun...
M143 - Once in a hole or well, one character convinces another to go down to it, so he gets out on his own,...
M144 - One character manages to convince another that dangerous and inedible objects are attractive and tas...
M144a - The character asks a large and dangerous animal (tiger or elephant) to carry a bag of straw and sets...
M145 - One zoomorphic character shows another his reflection in a pond. He believes that a beast like him c...
M146 - Knowing that the meat is trapped or poisoned, or that there is a trap ahead, the zoomorphic characte...
M147 - A weak beast tells the strong that everyone is afraid of him, the weak, and suggests checking it out...
M147a - When the foxes (wolves) meet and one of them (one of the wolves) asks when they will see each other ...
M147b - To get rid of fleas, a fox (jackal) takes a bunch of moss (hay, grass) in its mouth and immerses its...
M148 - One zoomorphic character asks another to agree to be eaten - he usually says that he will be resurre...
M149 - A strong opponent is ready to kill a hero (human or weak animal). Someone, as if not knowing this, l...
M149a - The character, frivolously or against his own will, is bound by a contract with a predator that he c...
M149b - A person says that in his stomach (in a box) dangerous creatures he has swallowed (put in a box) tha...
M150 - Having begun to herd the herd, the character eats animals trusted to him. ...
M151 - A dangerous character pretends to be dead or missing or pretending to be an inanimate object. The po...
M152 - Seeing an approaching predator (giant, etc.), the weak character pretends to thank the person who le...
M152a - A strong predator (cannibal giant) and a weak predator tie together with the same rope to feel more ...
M152b - a herbivorous ungulates (usually a donkey) for the first time, a large predator thinks that it is st...
M152c - The weak companion of a large predator pretends to be strong and brave. When he is carried away by a...
M152d - An elephant and a tiger (lion) clash (usually competing to see who will make a louder roar). The tig...
M152e - A tiger (lion) and another animal compete whose roar is louder. The tiger roars louder, but eventual...
M152f - Animals agree to eat up one of them whose voice is the lowest...
M153 - Under various pretexts, the ungulate asks the predator to examine its hoof, and then kills or maims ...
M153a - The predator is going to eat a person or herbivore. The intended victim asks to be allowed to wash h...
M153b - A wolf is killed or maimed after agreeing to a pet's offer to ride a horse. ...
M154 - A person who has learned animal language laughs when he hears them talking. The wife or mother-in-la...
M154a - One pet (usually a donkey) encourages the other to pretend to be sick. After that, the adviser has t...
M154a1 - A person who understands animal language hears a mare saying that it is carrying four (three): she h...
M154b - The husband (rarely: son) will stay at home instead of his wife (mother), but he does everything bad...
M155 - The father or mother (pretends to) fall asleep naked (naked). One of the children is covering for hi...
M156 - A dangerous animal is about to kill a person or other animal - usually the one who freed it from the...
M156a - Dangerous animal seeks to kill a person or other animal who rescued it from captivity. The dangerous...
M157 - The character claims that a man, male animal, or object gave birth (or that it is menstruating) or t...
M157a1 - The character proves the absurdity of another's statements by stating in response that his or her fa...
M157a2 - The character claims that the calf (goat, etc.) did not give birth to a cow (goat, etc.) of another ...
M157a3 - The character requires another to provide him with offspring or milk from a male animal. ...
M157a4 - The character proves the absurdity of the other's statements, claiming that he (or someone else) was...
M157a5 - A person finds a golden (rarely marble, etc.) mortar (bell) and brings it to the powerful character....
M157a6 - To help a person answer the ruler's questions, a servant or friend replaces him and gives witty answ...
M157b - The husband drives his wife away, allowing her to take the most precious thing for her. She takes he...
M157c - To embarrass the character, others present pre-stored chicken eggs that the character doesn't have. ...
M157d - Animals (mostly domestic animals) and/or humans consistently join forces to achieve the goal (usuall...
M158 - A person and an animal (devil) or two animals decide to cultivate the field and divide the crop so t...
M158a - Two animal persons work their land together and agree to share the profits. While one is working har...
M159 - The strongest character (usually a lion) suggests dividing the loot (harvest). The one who is more c...
M160 - A strong wild animal and a man became friends. A person breaks a promise made to the beast or speaks...
M161 - The character gives the other a bag that should contain food, but in fact there is a dog; or frees t...
M162 - The character pretends to be eating his own entrails or his own meat. Others believe and kill (let t...
M162a - The character pretends to eat his own genitals. The other one believes and disintegrates himself. ...
M162b - The character pretends to rub the juice of sour berries into his eyes. The other (always a bear) wan...
M163 - A person finds himself in a country where there are many mice (rats, snakes), but no cats. He sells ...
M163a - After people who were tortured by mice finally got a cat, they fear that it will now eat them themse...
M163b - A person gets advice to throw money into the water and take only what comes up. This makes him happy...
M164 - The character refuses to enter the predator's lair when he sees that all traces lead in but not out....
M164a - Asking animals if his mouth really smells bad (or if his lair is dirty), the predator (lion, wolf) k...
M165 - One zoomorphic character promises another to sew a fur coat (boots), asks him to bring sheep, eats t...
M166 - The predator invites a potential victim in the tree to go down (he usually tells the bird that there...
M167 - In the dark, a person mistakes a tiger (lion, demon) for another person or for a pet (bull, ox). ...
M167a - A strong predator takes an incomprehensible word for the name of a creature that is stronger than hi...
M168 - The hares are desperate that they are the most cowardly, but they are happy to learn that there are ...
M168a - An animal or bird that regularly uses the fruits of a farmer's crop or lives in his field continues ...
M168b - bird or person who becomes a bird is tasked with bringing a stick that is neither straight nor crook...
M169 - In the presence of a powerful character, one of the downstairs intrigues against the other. He says ...
M170 - Pretending to be only concerned about performing religious rituals or fulfilling regulations (he rep...
M170a - The predator accuses the herbivore of sins and eats it. ...
M170b - The zoomorphic character put his head in a vessel, which crashed, leaving the corolla around his nec...
M171 - The character stays at the house and in the morning declares that the insignificant item or animal h...
M171a - A character (often zoomorphic) gets a girl (boy), consistently exchanging smaller values for larger ...
M171b - The character pretends to bring meat on the shoulder bone, lets the owners cook. Taking a bare bone ...
M171c - At the character's request, another removes a thorn from his body (cuts off the tip of his tail, etc...
M171c1 - Person has only a bast-shoe (or later asserts that he/she had the bast-shoe with him/her). He/she as...
M171d - The character changes one for another and eventually gets a musical instrument (usually a drum). ...
M172 - To show that a strong character is his slave, a mount, a weak character adjusts so that a strong cha...
M173 - zoomorphic character pretends to be dead where a traveler carrying luggage must pass. The traveler p...
M173a - The character throws one of the paired items in the other's way. The traveler passes by, but when th...
M174 - A weaker character adjusts so that the stronger one loses the ability to move while still alive. The...
M175 - The hyena sees the carcass of a larger predator behind him, does not understand that he is dead, and...
M176 - The characters agree to jump over a ditch, stream, etc. or cross it on a log, rope, etc. One or all ...
M177 - weak predator eats a part of the victim's body and explains to the strong that the victim did not ha...
M177a - One zoomorphic character teaches another to keep quiet, look at him or to the side when a third trie...
M178 - The owner consistently sends others to herd a goat (a herd of goats). The goat eats plenty of grass,...
M179 - Two zoomorphic characters live side by side, one's house is destroyed, he asks the other to shelter ...
M179a - One character, by deception or in the absence of another, occupies his home and refuses to return it...
M179b - One zoomorphic character asks another (or person) to let him dry out, warm up, etc. Once inside, he ...
M180 - zoomorphic character invites someone else to visit, but serves food in such a way that he can't take...
M180a - zoomorphic character invites another to visit, but requires that you wash your hands or feet before ...
M181 - Two characters are invited to the party. (On the way and) getting to the place, one deceives the oth...
M181a - The character believes that unattainable natural sites are accessible cultural sites. He usually agr...
M181b - The story of the Spider Trickster ends with his transformation into a spider that lives under a roof...
M182 - To catch a thief, a deceiver, the property owner puts a sticky figure to which the person who comes ...
M182a - A person coats resin on a bull, a horse (usually makes a figure that comes to life), or an object; w...
M182a1 - A person catches several wild animals and lets them go for promising to bring gifts or be useful. An...
M182b - The animals ask them to ride in a sleigh. Sledges break down, animals bring unusable material from t...
M183 - Numerous relatives of the character, who all look the same, together perform an impossible task for ...
M183a - Two are arguing which of them will eat or drink more. One of them is constantly replaced by his rela...
M184 - fast-footed and slow characters agree to race. The quick-footed is confident in victory and is in no...
M185 - fast-footed animal (a flightless bird) and a slow character agree to compete in running or jumping. ...
M185a - Birds, animals, fish compete to see which of them runs or swims faster, or who will fly the highest....
M186 - The animal (fox, wolf, leopard) runs along the coast, and fish (burbot, goby) swims in the water. Th...
M187 - By racing, the snail defeats a faster opponent. ...
M187a - Two fish (fish and whale, dolphin, squid and dolphin, etc.) agree to race. ...
M187b - The swiftest runner must receive the harvest...
M187c - A crab participates in the race and wins...
M188 - A character is honored after accidentally taking on an unusual appearance - getting dirty with paint...
M188a - The character demands to be treated like a ruler (he usually sits on a bunch of garbage and demands ...
M189 - To thread a thread through a spiral shell (a stone with a hole, a horn), the character ties a thread...
M190 - A beaver transports porcupine across a water barrier. He usually dumps it into the water or leaves i...
M191 - A fox (dog, squirrel) lives with whom and passes it off as a strong animal; forest predators are fri...
M191a - mice decide to hang a bell around the cat's neck or tail to know that it is approaching. Usually non...
M191b - A person does good (does no harm) to a snake (fish, lion) and benefits from it. His son (rarely some...
M191c - singing (threats, courtesies), the wolf (less often the bear) consistently forces the old man to giv...
M192 - scavenger who climbs into an animal's carcass or wears fresh animal skin cannot get out of it, becau...
M192a - The character agrees to be put on freshly skinned or wrapped in damp belts. Skins or belts cause pai...
M193 - To avoid predators (suitors) on the way back, the character climbs inside a pumpkin, a round cauldro...
M193a - The mice decide to hang a bell around the cat's neck or tail to know that it is approaching. Usually...
M194 - Several animals take possession of items that belonged to humans. When distributing the loot, one ke...
M195 - The character must guess which of the two horses is older. He does this by knowing how horses behave...
M195a - The character sends a long object that either looks the same at both ends or is inside a small objec...
M195b - A person puts a needle (thread, stick) in the ear of two or three dolls (skulls). In different dolls...
M196 - Husband and wife agree to give a negligible reward to someone who stays silent longer. Both or one o...
M196a - Arguing over a negligible reason, the husband and wife (or one of them) lie down and do not move, th...
M197 - Seriously or demonstrating the absurdity of such actions, the character tries to fry or cook somethi...
M197a - man took the pot (pot) and returned it with a small pot. The boiler owner agreed that the big boiler...
M197b - The owner claims that the other's mares were necklaced or thrown away because his stallions far from...
M197c - A person sells sand, dust, etc. as a remedy for fleas, mice, etc. Explains that it is necessary to c...
M197d - To find a thief, a person gives the crowd sticks and says that the thief will have sticks longer ove...
M197e - When going to meet a demon or beast, a person brings his wife (rarely: grandfather), who is covered ...
M197e1 - Demon claims form himself the harvest from the field possessed by a man. He agrees to renounce his r...
M197f - The person answers why his head is gray and his beard is not: his beard is 20 years younger. ...
M198 - In the house of a khan (judge, king, etc.), three brothers (rarely one person) determine that the fo...
M198a - Brothers (rarely: one person) inconspicuously identify the characteristics of a pet they have not se...
M198a1 - three brothers consistently and for no apparent reason determine the characteristics of an object or...
M198a2 - A person, by signs that are invisible to others, determines that a jewel (a gem, an expensive sword)...
M198a3 - One of the brothers steals a treasure for which all of them have equal rights or he is a bastard. Br...
M198a4 - Listeners of a story must answer whom they liked more: a husband who let his wife go to another man,...
M198b - A person who does not know how to find missing persons and expose thieves successfully does so, than...
M198b1 - A powerful character invites a person named Cancer to guess what is in the box (under the lid on a d...
M198b2 - A powerful character invites a person whose name is the name of an insect (most often Grasshopper) t...
M198b3 - imaginary fortuneteller accidentally manages to find the missing, he is awarded and close to the own...
M198b4 - The imaginary fortuneteller, while awaiting exposure, utters words that reflect his state of mind. T...
M198b5 - An imaginary fortuneteller accidentally overhears someone's conversation, otherwise he would not be ...
M199 - A man and a giant (devil, predator, robber) agree to test their strength by crushing a stone. A man ...
M199a - The man buried something soft and liquid in the ground, and when he stomped (fired an arrow into thi...
M199b - man and his opponent agree to test their strength by throwing a stone. The enemy throws a stone, and...
M199c - A person pretends to have thrown or is about to throw an object to a place where it cannot be return...
M199c1 - man and his opponent agree to test their strength - who will throw the heavy object next. A person p...
M199d - man and his opponent agree to compete in wrestling and running. A person puts his “relatives” in...
M199d1 - devil (cannibal) offers a person a competition: who will climb a tree faster. A person puts his chil...
M199e - man and his opponent compete to see which of them will be able to carry the horse. The enemy can har...
M199f - The character pretends to want to deprive the devils (aquatic inhabitants) of their habitat (pull to...
M199g1 - A person (a weaker animal) deceives a giant strongman (a trait, a stronger animal). One episode: bot...
M199g2 - The deceiver makes it so that the tiger with whom they carry meat on the pole holds the end of the p...
M199h - The character hides a bag under his clothes, imperceptibly putting food in it. After ripping the bag...
M199i - A person and a giant (hell, bear, etc.) compete to see who will make a louder sound (whistles louder...
M199j - The giant puts a man on his shoulders to carry him across the river. Believing that he is strong, he...
M199k - The giant sends a man to fetch water, giving him a huge wineskin. He cannot raise so much water, but...
M199l - When the giant blew, sneezed, etc. or let go of the bent tree on which the man was sitting, he was t...
M199m - man explains to the demon that heavy objects such as a harrow or millstone lying by the road are jus...
M199n - The man offers the demon to fill his hat, bag, etc. with money. The demon does not notice that there...
M199o - A man and his adversary have a contest to see who can make a (deeper) hole in a tree (stump) with hi...
M200 - old man and boy set off with a donkey. They try all the options: only an old man sits on a donkey, o...
M201 - A fast-growing mushroom (melon) believes that an oak tree will soon outgrow. The mushroom (pumpkin w...
M202 - A person pulls a splinter out of the paw (bone from the throat) of a dangerous predator or demon, wh...
M203 - A supernatural being sends a message to an unknown addressee through a person he meets. Upon fulfill...
M203a - A supernatural being transmits a message through a person he meets to an unknown addressee, transmit...
M204 - A male deity and his wife, or a rich man and his wife, see a poor man. The wife persuades her husban...
M204a - Gold was planted on a man's way to use it. At this time, a person accidentally closes his eyes and w...
M205 - Warriors lay siege to a city or palace. They catch or receive as a tribute the birds that live there...
M206 - A guard (courtier) agrees to open a man an access to a powerful person after a promise to share with...
M207 - A poor married couple (a poor man) bemoans life’s harshness and blame Adam and Eve who through the...
N1 - The fabulous and epic texts start from the beginning, which states that today's huge objects were ti...
N2 - Fabulous and epic texts start from the beginning, which states that animals were performing human so...
N3 - One finger says he's hungry and/or offers to steal something. The rest of the fingers express their ...
N4 - Fused ribs are a sign of heroic strength. {The motive was highlighted and the material was collected...
N5 - Long trips, hikes, flights, or battles are described using a formula that indicates that characters ...
N6 - horse tells the rider to whip it so hard that his blood splashes, his skin peels off, the meat is cu...
N7 - fairy-tale text ends with a formula that says that three apples fell from the sky or tree, at least ...
N8 - fairy-tale text ends with a formula that says that the characters placed the narrator in a gun or gu...
N9 - Two characters discuss the rider's approach. A person with a higher social status explains that what...
N10 - A woman or (rarely) a man with a transparent body is described. This transparency is a sign of beaut...
N10a - A woman or (rarely) a man with a transparent body is described - bones are visible through the skin,...
N10b - A girl or (rarely) a young man with a transparent neck is described, through which you can see the d...
N10c - A girl is described, through whose body you can see her internal organs or the food she has swallowe...
N11 - The character wants to have a child or spouse who is as white and blush as snow (milk) and blood. ...
N12 - A powerful character makes or tells you to make a cloak or fur coat from human beards and/or mustach...
N13 - A girl, a girl is associated with scissors (and a boy, a boy with a knife or an ax). ...
N14 - fairy-tale text ends with a formula stating that the narrator attended a feast and/or wedding arrang...
N15 - fairy-tale text ends with a formula that says that the narrator ate food and/or drinks, but they did...
N16 - fairy-tale text ends with a formula stating that the narrator had a horse and/or harness made of wax...
N17 - fairy-tale text ends with a formula stating that the narrator met with the characters described and ...
N18 - fairy-tale text ends with a formula stating that the narrator received food, drinks, money or other ...
N19 - fairy-tale text ends with a formula stating that one or two people who met the narrator after the fa...
N20 - fairy tale text ends with a formula that says that the characters have achieved their desires, goals...
N21 - The warrior-hero was made of dough and then became alive (his name is “The Dough”)...
N22 - fairy-tale text ends with a formula that says that if the characters are not dead, they are still al...
N23 - fairy-tale text ends with a formula that says that the characters stayed or left where the action to...
N24 - You can see a light that resembles a second moon or a second sun. It comes from a pretty girl. ...
N25 - said that characters spend a long time (days, weeks, months, years) on the road, but end up walking ...
N26 - said that the action took place when cultivated plants (wheat, cotton) grew on ice or salt. ...
N27 - Bird milk (variant: chicken, pigeon, hawkish, etc.) milk is mentioned in fairy tales, riddles, paroe...
N27a - It is said that somewhere there is (or was) even bird’s milk...
N27b - It is said that someone is only lacking bird’s milk or that somewhere the only thing missing is bi...
N27c - It is claimed that the bird has no milk and/or breasts...
N28a - The roots (belt) of mountains or stones are mentioned in myths, riddles, spells, and songs as someth...
N28b - In a list of things that do not exist in the world, a ladder or stairway to the sky (variant: a ladd...
N28c - In a list of things that do not exist in the world, a pillar of the sky is mentioned...
N28d - In a list of things that do not exist in the world, a lid or covering for the sea, ocean or river ar...
N28e - In a list of things that do not exist in the world, a bridge across the sea, ocean or lake is mentio...
N28f - It is said that water has no boughs or twigs...
N28g - In a list of things that do not exist in the world, a gall of horse or ass is mentioned...
N28h - In a list of things that do not exist in the world, horns of the horse are mentioned...
N29 - time required to perform an action or elapsed since the event described is estimated by comparing it...
N30 - formula that describes the confusion of feelings: when a character looks in one direction, he cries,...
N31 - Late autumn and then winter sets in line with the departure of two or three species of birds flying ...
N32 - The ornithomorphic character is said to be sitting on several trees. ...
N33 - hero drives the enemy into the ground, or he and the enemy alternately drive each other into the gro...
N34 - Streams (jets) that consist not of water but of honey (honey and butter, butter and milk, milk and b...
N35 - Somewhere milk rivers flow with banks made of jelly (porridge) - a sign of abundance (impossible in ...
N36 - is said about the horse that it jumps above trees (grass, the surface of the earth) and below the sk...
N37 - The character is said to sleep under the sky (like a blanket). ...
N38 - The character asks others which key is better - lost and found or new. This refers to a forgotten an...
N39 - The image of a three-ply rope is used to describe the invincibility of two close-knit friends...
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