L123. The tracks lead in all directions .43.45.47.49.67. (.72).
In order to confuse the pursuer, the character leaves traces in all directions before running.
Shuswap, Seneca, Alabama, Western Shoshones, Takana, (nivakle).
The coast is the Plateau. Shuswap [Muskrat kills a girl who rejected him; makes arrows from different tribes, pierces her body; wearing different snowshoes in turn, leaves traces around her house that lead to everyone directions; comes like a shaman to revive her, sings about how he killed her; runs away, turns into a muskrat]: Teit 1909a: 680.
Northeast. Seneca: Curtin, Hewitt 1918, No. 33 [two boys have the same appearance; one takes care of the other's sister; brother kills the groom, buries it under the hearth; tells his sister to leave traces leading to at home in all directions; puts her in an arrow, shoots her east through the chimney; the mother of the murdered young man finds his body, turns into a cannibal bear, chases his brother and sister; see motive L72], 57 [ an uncle kills any woman a tribesman marries; he runs away from home in all directions, then puts his wife in an arrow, refers him to his invisible brother, goes there by himself; the motive itself J19]: 172-176, 285-287.
Southeast USA. Alabama: Martin 1977:46; Swanton 1929, No. 14 [an ogre kidnaps a girl; tells her to cut off pieces of his meat, fry him; his old wife cuts off her meat, tells her to run; she first runs to in different directions to confuse the tracks; the old woman gives her berries, reeds, clay; the cannibal stops eating berries; the reeds turn into dense thickets, clay into the swamp; her brothers shoot at him, he unharmed; the bird tells you to shoot at the ankle, it dies; the corpse is burned; the ash turns into rooks, bees], 15 [short version]: 131-133.
Big Pool. Western shoshones [The Coyote lives with the Wolf; {obviously losing his eyes}; goes, meets two sisters, wants to marry; they offer him to hunt, he sees nothing, he has a hard time killing buffalo calf; asks to remove his lice, falls asleep; sisters see that there are larvae in his eye sockets; put a skin with a nest of ants under his head; run in different directions, entangling their tracks, run away; one takes off her necklace, rings it over the abyss; the Coyote goes to the sound, falls, breaks her leg, eats her own bone marrow; replies to the girls that he eats the bison's brain; returns to the Wolf; he kills bison, inserts Coyote's bison eyes; Coyote sees well again, hunts successfully]: Smith 1993:117-119.
Bolivia - Guaporé. Takana [a cannibal eats one wife after another; forbids another wife to go to a certain place; she finds female skulls there; runs along paths leading in different directions, runs away; cannibal turns into an anteater spirit]: Hissink, Hahn 1961, No. 274:411-416.
(Wed. Chaco. Nivakle [Stavuun (royal vulture) kills people, his children play with their bones; Ajti't'a trains to run fast; the sky used to be in the place of the earth and vice versa; the sky wanted to be clear, and the earth decided people wouldn't get it dirty; they swapped places after two menstruating women wiped their anuses; now they're two spots in the sky {Magellanic clouds? Coal Sacks?} ; The Milky Way is a place where S.'s children played with bones; A. killed S.'s children; when S. approaches, you hear the sound {thunder?} , it's raining; A. hides with his wife S., asks to send S. alternately to four directions of the world; S. returns each time and hurries in a new direction; finally notices the hole in which A. hid; digs it up, he releases the butterflies he has taken with him, S. eats them (thinking that A. ate?) ; finds a snake, shows it to his wife, asks if it is A.; meanwhile A. runs away through another exit; successively turns into a tree, into another plant, into a flower; S. does not recognize him, flies by; A. wants to hide in a bottle tree, it replies that it can't hide it, suggests hiding in Palo Mataco; he hides; when S. tries to penetrate the same hole, the tree pinches him; animals and birds came to share his flesh; the deer was well suited; the birds also bathed in blood, took on color; some immediately shook off the blood, leaving only specks, others kept their red color]: Wilbert 1987b, No. 164:388-391).