J23B. Spears are placed along the trail .13.19.20.

To defeat the monster, the young man (twins) prepares spears in advance and leave them along the intended escape route. Running away from the monster, the young man throws his spears at him one by one and eventually hits him to death.

Anuak, Acholi, Vedau, Motu, Gudinaf, St. Croix, Tanna, Ontong Java Islands.

Sudan - East Africa. Anuak [a huge snake eats people; when he saw a pregnant woman, he was going to swallow her; she said that she was carrying something in her womb that would kill her, the serpent abandoned its intention; he ate all the other snakes; a woman gave birth to a son; one day he saw a fiery red mouth; the mother told me everything; the young man made platforms and each had one or two spears that belonged to the inhabitants eaten; threw the first spears at the snake and ran; took spears from the platforms and threw them at the pursuer; the snake pierced the latter's eyes with spears, he died; the young man cut his stomach, the swallowed ones came out; the last was the young man's father, he was all red, for was in the guts and the snakes would soon monster him; the young man refused the girls offered to him and went in search of a distant beauty; two dogs with him; took the form of a monkey; she was caught and the girl's father told her carrying firewood; leaving the village, the young man regained his human form and fed his dogs; this was noticed by a girl, the sister of the leader's daughter; she saw for herself, met with the young man and gave birth to a boy; when The child is 4 years old, the leader called the men: let the boy hit the one who is his father with a wand; he hit the monkey; the leader wanted to kill the monkey, but she became a young man, and the dogs with lions, chewed on the people; the young man recalled lions, they turned into dogs again; the young man brought cattle and married the chief's daughter]: Evans Pritchard, Beaton 1940, No. 17:72-74; Acholi [Lucoro ate all humans and animals, left pregnant Min-kwet; she hid in a cave, had 8 daughters and 20 sons; they immediately grew up asking where her father was; her mother replied that 5,000 copies should be made first and a stand should be built; she called L., that smokes tobacco, smoke spread across the sky; L. goes to M., her sons throw spears at him; when he reached the platform, L. fell dead; the brothers cut his little finger, all swallowed went out]: Oryem, Wright 1960:121- 122.

Malenesia. Vedau [a monstrous boar kills people; the rest sail to another place; the pregnant woman stays, digs a shelter, gives birth to a son, goes out at night to eat in abandoned areas; boy grows up; builds shelters to the boar's lair, each with a stock of spears, leaves the mother's two best spears; consistently throws spears at the boar, moving from one shelter to another; kills with spears, abandoned by the mother; smokes meat, makes a raft out of stubble, tells them to stick where people are in mourning; the raft is not given to other people, allows one of the escapees to take it; people return, make a winner boar chief]: Ker 1910:121-127; motu [giant Tauni-kapi-kapi devours people; villagers sail away in boats; the pregnant woman's husband did not have time to make a boat, T. swallowed it; in other boats there is no place for a woman, she hides in a cave; gives birth to a son; he grows up, is extremely strong; on a huge tree she builds platforms one above the other with a supply of spears and stones; at the very top he makes a fire; As the giant climbs the tree, the young man throws spears and stones at it from ever higher platforms; tells his mother to light a fire; pierces the giant's eye with a spear, throws a burning platform into his mouth; a burnt giant who swallows stones falls, breaks; so the young man avenged the death of his father; married the giant's daughter; becomes the leader of returning people, takes many wives]: Romilly 1889:120-127; Goodinaf [Manubutu (osprey) ate almost everyone, the rest fled the island; there was no room for the young pregnant woman and the old woman in the boat; they hid in a cave, the young woman gave birth to twins; their They are called differently: Kewala and Wiwia (two species of parrots {hereinafter K. and V.}), "The one above the ground", and "The one who is underground", "Born first" and "Born second"; the old woman cares about them, they grow up incredibly fast; they ask why to whisper; the mother explains, usually calling the osprey "Seer"; the grandmother secretly teaches how to make various spears; taking their dog, the brothers go to look for an osprey along the way they leave their spears in different places; when they bump into a sleeping M., they wake him up by throwing stones; he first thinks it's the wind; surprised that someone is alive; the brothers hide under an inverted boat; M. He pierces his claws into the bottom, and the brothers stab him from below with spears; not sure that M. is dead, they are afraid to approach him, but tell the dog to bring his heart; let him go through his mouth, penetrate his ass, then he will turn back and only then will he tear his heart off, going out again through his mouth; {the dog brings the heart}; when they return to the women, the brothers put M.'s heart on a raft with a sail and let them go to sea; (in some In addition, brothers and women eat M.'s body at this time); the father of the twins sees a raft that has sailed to Ferguson Island, realizes that M. is dead, but decides to wait to return; the grandmother reports that M. has Vinetauna's wife ("The Woman Herself"), who is scarier than him; the brothers leave their spears along the way; climb a tree, throw nuts at V.; V. puts on a "combat skirt", dances, takes off her skirt, puts on another one, trying many, increasingly inflamed with anger; brothers run, throwing their prepared spears, but they do no harm to V.; they have the last double-tipped spear; brothers argue who will throw it; K. ("elder") strikes V. in both eyes, V. dies; the brothers again tell the dog to bring the heart, send it back on the raft; this time the people returned, the father saw his sons, they were made leaders]: Young 1993:384-385; Santa Cruz Islands (Reef Islands - Nukapu Island) [the cannibal Tepkakhola and the huge Ulaka boar ate them all; 10 brothers and sister are left; they made a boat to sail away; sister tries to sit down into it, but the boat turns over every time; the brothers take shelter in the cave for their sister, sail away; two lizards jumped into the girl's mouth, she gave birth to twin boys; taught her everything; T. noticed the fire, met a woman, told him to give him fish; instead of the last fish, she puts a leaf core in his mouth, which looks like a fish skeleton; T. suffocates, the young men finish him off; they place spears along the path; when the boar chases with them, they pierce him one by one, kill him]: Coombe 1911:111-113; Tanna [giant Semo-Semo ate everyone; the last old woman, and lost her little daughter in the grass; she sucked the roots, grew up, she got fire by friction, found yams in abandoned gardens; became pregnant by inserting a vine into her vulva; gave birth to twins, taught everything; they lit a fire to attract the SS, ran, throwing them stuck in advance along the way, the spears were killed; first the ants checked whether the SS was dead, then one bird put the SS head in the anus, the other flew through and again from mouth to anus; then various parrots and other birds of different colors climbed into the SS; brothers cut the body, swallowed people, chickens, rats, birds came out; everyone was thrown a piece of SS flesh, told who would live, how and where; mother and sons turned into stones at the entrance to cave]: Bonnemaison 1987:98-105.

Micronesia-Polynesia. Ontong Java [{the second part of one text is mistakenly placed after the first part of another and vice versa; therefore, the page numbers are broken down}; the cannibal dog destroys people; the chief tells everyone to sail away to another island; the boats are overloaded; in order not to take a pregnant woman, she was sent to bring a forgotten scoop and sailed away; she gave birth to a son, raised her, they sleep during the day, awake at night so as not to attract the dog's attention; the mother told her son how it was; he started making darts and learned to throw them; climbed a Kekoa tree, spread three packs of darts on the branches; called the dog; she was approaching, young man throws darts, going down the trunk; the dog ran, began to dig the ground {obviously trying to knock down a tree}; the young man killed her with the last dart; when he went down, painted himself with the dog's blood; when the boat with people docked at the island, the young man's mother replied that she had killed the dog (her son told her not to tell her how it was going right away); then admitted that her son had killed her; the chief gathered all the girls and the young man chose him as his wife his daughter]: Keopo 1981:93, 89.