M62A. Incitement to quarrel (action).

(.11.-.17.21.23.27.-.34.36.38.39.41.-.46.50.72.)

The hero quietly damages each of the two characters; they accuse each other, quarrel, fight.

Congo, Yoruba, Igbo, Sudanese Arabs, Algeria, Spaniards, Catalans, Italians, Dutch, Flemish, Germans, Alsatians, British, Iraqi Arabs, Punjabi, Sinhalese, Tibetans (Amdo), Greeks , Moldovans, Poles, Luzhitans, Belarusians, Crimean Tatars, Ingush, Nogais, Avars, Turkmens, (Yagnobes), Burish, Finns, Latvians, Lithuanians, Chuvash, Kazakhs, Khalkha Mongols, Mongols of Ordos, Central (?) Yakuts, Japanese, coastal Koryaks, slevi, bellacula, nootka, shuswap, thompson, takelma, menominee, ojibwa, sauk, kickapoo, seneca, mikmak, penobscot, hidatsa, arapaho, arikara, pawnee, tonkawa, hikarilla, chiricahua, toba, nivacle, maca.

Bantu-speaking Africa. Congo [Moni-Mambu came to brothers who never quarreled; one was a fisherman, the other was getting palm wine; MM placed fish on palm trees, calebasses and wine in the river; the brothers got into a fight; a woman told MM that he could go to her house to eat baked peanuts with her children; he ate peanuts and children; the chief tells MM to shoot anything they chase him (during a driven hunt); he kills hunting dogs, hunters, the chief's wife; they want to kill him, he says bullets and knives don't take him, let them take him to the top; porters go to the river to look for drinking water; MM speaks to passers-by merchants who appoint chiefs; the merchant is put in a net, MM takes his property, the merchant is drowned; MM shoots an antelope, it jumps out of its skin, runs away; MM blows out, the dog takes away the snot, MM throws she smut into her, she enters the house, the house burns down; he is told to build a new one, he cuts a tree, a machete falls into the water, the crocodile grabs MM, but the osprey snatches it out of the crocodile's mouth; MM meets the talking skull, talks about it; people go to check, the skull is silent; the chief orders MM to be killed, pierced with a spear]: Belcher 2005, No. 15:82-87.

West Africa. Yoruba [to quarrel between the two friends, Eshu walked between them wearing a red hat and white on the other; friends asked about the color of the hat; when he went back, everyone apologized but then they fell out again; people advised them to sacrifice Ash, then they reconciled]: Belcher 2005:98-99; Igbo [childless parents finally have a son; immediately says that if He will cry, he will die; after any pranks, he prevents him from being beaten, otherwise he will cry; one day he kills another child; the mother takes him, runs to another village; the falcon agrees to carry them across the river, if they don't touch his ass; the boy still threatens to touch him, he does so, the mother and son fall, but to the other side; two animals in the village are killing people; the inhabitants will make the leader of the one who kills animals; a boy from a tree throws pebbles at one and the other; animals think at each other, fight, are exhausted; a boy comes up, throws stones into their mouths, their bellies are filled with stones, they die; a boy becomes chief]: Ugochukwu 1992, No. 4:41-45.

Sudan - East Africa. Sudanese Arabs [the strongman asks the mother if there are people as strong as him; on the advice of a neighbor, she replies that Eva is everyone's mother; the son goes to look for equal descendants of Eve; three eat at the well on a camel; they give him, he can only eat some meat; they talk about a man who forcibly took their sister away from them; a girl takes out his lice; a strongman hits him on the head with a stick; lying replies that he has three days and on the fourth he will catch up with him; when the chase is near, the young man asks the shepherd to hide it; he hides it in a bag of millet around his neck; the stalker does not believe that he did not see anyone; the shepherd takes a bull, hits him with a bull, killing both; the young man asks an ax to cut off the dead head; unable to do so; the shepherd takes the axe with two fingers, cuts it off; the young man can hardly carry severed head; says to the three who killed their sister's kidnapper; Sultan: Since you are so strong, kill a monstrous bull, three cannibals and a clawed female beast; the bull chased him, he climbed a tree the bull's horns were stuck in the trunk, he cut off the bull's head; threw pebbles from the tree at the cannibals lying under the tree; they began to fight, killed each other; the young man blew, told the beast to stretch out its paws, cut off fingers, they were his strength; the Sultan appointed him a vizier]: Al-Shahi, Moore 1920, No. 33:159-162.

North Africa. The Arabs of Eastern Algeria (Souf) [the king keeps his seven sons in the palace to protect them from all the worst in the world; they are given boneless meat, almonds without shells, watermelons without watermelons skins; one day a black maid forgot to take out the dice; the young men began to play, throwing the dice at each other, broke the window and saw the outside world; told the maid to tell everything about birth, love, death; sent to the father asking him to let them go; the king married his sons; his daughters-in-law annoyed him, he decided to get rid of them; the Jew advised him to be sick, let the sons bring the blood of their wives; six wives were killed, and the youngest Ali brought the blood of the gazelle, ran away with his wife; they came to the house of 40 blind gulas; they cooked 40 tortillas and 40 servings of meat; Ali quietly took one; the ghuli got into a fight, Ali killed them and threw them into the well; the wife heard a groan, pulled out and hid one ghoul who had just been wounded; Ghoul advised Ali to be sent for golden rejuvenating apples; the old woman teaches Ali to slip between the crushing mountains; have time to jump over the garden fence (as soon as the wall sees Ali's horse, it will begin to grow); picking apples, galloping away without turning around; Ali turned slightly to his voice, the horse's tail was cut off; the old woman tells give her the rejuvenating apples and bringing the usual ones to his wife; the ghoul advised Ali to play chess for a living; Ali let his wife win, believing it was a joke, but she killed him and put the pieces of his body in a bag , attached his horse to the saddle and told the horse to ride to where he came from; the old woman put the pieces together, but the heart and liver were not enough; she sent the cat to the ghoul, she brought her heart and liver; with the juice of the rejuvenating The old woman revived the apples; he came to the ghoul disguised as a dervish, slaughtered him at night, stabbed his wife, returned to the old woman; she turned the cat into a beautiful woman, Ali married her, returned to his father, who handed it to him throne]: Scelles-Millie 1963:313-316.

Western Asia. Iraqi Arabs: El-Shamy 2004, No. 1577:866.

Southern Europe. Spaniards, Italians [blind men duped into fighting; man says he gave one of the blind men money they should share; didn't really give; blind people blame each other fighting]: Uther 2004 (2), No. 1577:316; Catalans [man says he gave one of the blind money they should share; didn't actually give; blind people blame each other, fight]: Oriol, Pujol 2008, No. 1577:257.

Western Europe. Dutch, Flemish, Germans [blind men duped into fighting]: Uther 2004 (2), No. 1577:316; the Alsatians [the tailor killed seven flies that sat on an apple with a rag; made armor wrote "Seven in one blow" on it in gold; the king takes him into service, the courtiers want to destroy; the king tells him to kill two giants living in the forest, promised the princess; the tailor hid in a tree over the sleeping giants, began to throw stones at both, they thought at each other, began to fight, killed each other, the tailor wounded the dead with her sword; now the king ordered the unicorn to be brought (hiding behind with a tree, the horn gets stuck in the tree); bring the boar (ran into the chapel, got out the window, locked the door behind the boar that broke into the chapel); the king gave his daughter; the wife hears the husband talking like a tailor in a dream; tells his father; he sends the courtiers to overhear, one of them tells the tailor; he pretends to speak in a dream - he killed a giant, etc., I'm not afraid and standing outside the door; they ran away, the tailor stayed in palace]: Lefftz 2006, No. 11:197-203; the British [the tailor killed 50 flies with one blow, took an old sword and went on a journey; the king promises a daughter to the one who would save the country from two giants; hid in the hollow of a tree when they came; threw a pebble first at one and then at the other; the giants began to fight; when exhausted, the tailor cut off their heads, got the princess; a rebellion broke out in the country, The king sent his son-in-law to suppress him; the horse carried him, slipped under the gallows, she fell on him; seeing the victorious giant rushing on horseback, dragging the gallows, the enemy fled]: Jacobs 1894:78-81.

Tibet is the Northeast of India. Tibetans (Amdo) [The frog and the turtle have settled in the lake; they only give water when young men are sacrificed to them; it is the turn of the hunter's son and the son of a peasant; they hid behind the rocks; the son of a hunter threw a stone at the Frog; she thought the Turtle did it, they quarreled; the young men grabbed them by the necks; whoever kills the Frog with a stick on the head and eats it will spit gold; who stones the Turtle - turquoise; they did so, they came home, started spitting gold and turquoise]: Tshe dbang rdo rje et al. 2007:58.

South Asia. Punjabi [blind fakir: Who is Allah's lover who will let me touch 100 gold coins? the soldier heard and immediately found a purse with a hundred gold coins; let him touch the fakir, but he did not give it back, shouted that his money was being taken away; the soldier followed him unnoticed; when he entered his house, the fakir picked up a stove in the floor and added a hundred to the four hundred that were already there; the soldier went to get the money, but hit the shelf; the fakir yelled and waved his stick, and another blind man ran in; the fakir thought it was him wants to rob him; the blind are left to fight, and the soldier fled with the money]: Swynneton 1908, No. 4:39-41; the Singals [The Jackal tells Leo that the Ox thinks he is weak; to the Ox - that Leo says like an Ox He is afraid of him; Lev and Ox converge, kill each other]: Volkhonsky, Solntseva 1985, No. 18:54-56.

The Balkans. Moldovans [when she dies, the mother tells her daughter to marry the one who fits the ring; the monster The peasant with the nail found out the size of the ring, forged a finger for his grandson in size; the girl complains about her mother's grave, what should go for the Snake; she advises to demand a dress from the groom like sunset, noon, dawn; like morning; like night; the serpent brings three times; on the advice of the mother, after the wedding, the girl says, Light is ahead, darkness backwards and disappears; spends the night in the forest; Snakes find her with dogs, cut off hands, give it to dogs; the girl tries to cover the fallen chicks, the grateful bird turns her into a chick, raises her with others; chicks peck Green Tsar's apples; the eldest, middle sons fall asleep, the youngest is an armless beauty; the prince goes to fetch water from under the dragon rock; takes away boots to walk on the water, a hat- an invisible man, a musical instrument (carries him anywhere), for which three traits are fighting; at the spring, an invisible prince hits snakes, they think at each other, fight; the prince puts the last one in prison, brings water to the girl, her hands grow; the prince finishes off a snake, the girl manages to tear off her ring from his finger, the snake turns to dust]: Botezat 1981:200-210; Greeks [blind men duped into fighting; Trickster says he gave one of the blind men money they should share; didn't actually; blind people blame each other, fight]: Uther 2004 (2), no. 1577:316.

Central Europe. Poles [blind men duped into fighting; Trickster says he gave one of the blind men money they should share; didn't really; blind people blame each other, fight]: Uther 2004 (2), No. 1577:316; the Lusatians [the tailor sees two giants sleeping in the forest; throws pebbles between them; the giants accuse each other, fight, kill each other; the tailor kills seven flies with one blow, writes about this on his chest, falls asleep in the royal garden; the king tells him to kill the ferocious boar; the boar chases him, he runs into the cow's pen, closes the door; informs the king that the boar has been caught; the king fulfills the tailor's wishes]: Nedo 1956, No. 84:348-349; Belarusians [Mazurik sends blind beggars to the pub to drink with money he did not give them, and to the palace to remember the tsar who did not die]: SUS 1979, No. 1577:1577:332 (Dobrovolsky, 4:676-677).

Caucasus - Asia Minor. Crimean Tatars [a childless tinker complains to a gypsy woman that he does not have children; takes care of her family; a gypsy woman tells his wife to throw an egg into the wall, 40 men jump out of it, call the tinker is a father; he tells the gypsy woman to take them away; one named Kichkene hides, the tinker agrees to recognize him as a son; he brings pancakes to his father, sits on a bowl, tins jugs, plows, getting into the bull's ear; 40 -Azhdag's head closed the water, gives it every day for a bull; K. brings A. the yellow bull Sary-Bey, who took all the bulls from the villagers; asks him to leave his rectum; dumps the contents into bed S. and his wife; ties buckets of water to the backs of S.'s sons; S. and his wife fight, accusing each other of spoiling the bed; their sons jump up, knocking over the buckets; the pipe plays, K. laughs, everyone gathers watch; A. bursts with laughter, S. runs away from shame, peasants take back their property]: Birzgal 1992, No. 11:140-152; Ingush [Tsagen's neighbor is rude and unfriendly; Ts decided to get rid of him; a neighbor gets a job as a watchman in a store, C. quietly throws stones at the rich man's son who comes up; he thinks that the watchman is throwing stones, swearing, the watchman shoots, the young man has fallen, thinks he has been hit by a bullet, the watchman runs, fearing retribution for the murder; C. approaches the lying young man under the guise of an angel of death, makes him give a lot of money; the rich man's son and the shopkeeper eventually got into a fight and killed each other]: Sadulaev 2004, No. 100:264-269; Nogais [the old man expresses a desire for an old woman to give birth to him a son; White Ear comes to the house, says that he is a son, tells him to be planted between the horns of a goat, goes herd goats; riders want to pick up goats, BU promises them to bring the bull bay; then he gets an ax and a cauldron (everyone gets scared when they hear a voice, they don't see it screaming); riders cook a bull; BU persuades them smear the head of one sleeping girl with bacon, put a butter churn on the head of another, tie a pipe to the guy's lips, cut the old man's beard, put a puppy and a kitten between two girls; when they wake up, they accuse each other in the birth of freaks; BU returns without goats, the old woman throws him into the fire]: Nogai 1979, No. 31:144-147; Avars [Fox, Bear and Wolf have three jugs of butter and honey; The fox says three times that hers invites him to the Khan's birthday party; eats the contents of jugs; when she returns, she says that her son was called "Neck", "Middle", "Bottom"; at night she vomits, she vomits the faces of sleeping people The Wolf and the Bear, who accuse each other of stealing, fighting, killing each other; the fox licked their blood]: Ganiyeva 2011a, No. 13:80-81.

Iran - Central Asia. Turkmens: Sokali et al. 1955 [his wife gave birth to a son half an ear tall, Yarty Gulak; he went to his father's mill in a camel ear; went down to the grass, fell asleep on the grass, and the camel ate him with grass; parents killed a camel, did not find a son; the wolf swallowed it with guts; from the wolf's belly, YAG warns the shepherds; the wolf asks the Fox to help, she tells him to eat unripe grapes, the owner of the vineyard Hits the Wolf, YAG jumps out; on a basket of grapes, YAG arrives at the owner's house; at night he holds two guests by the beard; they accuse each other, fight; the owner fights with his wife (YAG held him by the beard, her for braids); at night, YAG smears ishan's (mullah) pants with pumpkin porridge, puts jug covers on his daughters' heads, turban on his wife's head, calls for prayer; general stir; etc.; YAG gets sheep for the promise to leave home, tells my father to pick them up; (beginning, including the wolf episode, pp.28-31)]: 28-39; Stebleva 1969, No. 44 [about the same as in Sokali, more episodes in the second part]: 225-237; (cf. Yagnobtsy [the fox threw a fur coat on the wolf's head, his head falls into the sleeve, the wolf runs, the fox catches up, says he can sew, the wolf asks to sew a fur coat for him; the fox asks for 20 rams, eats, skins throws into the river, then asks for 10 lambs, also eats, runs away; hides in a hut, the wolf hangs a leaky vessel above the entrance, says he urinates; the fox believes that only 3 days later he comes out hungry; ties a jug to the tail, lowers her into the river, the river carries him, his tail has come off; 4 foxes hit her, she pretends to be dead; gets up, offers to beat the one whose tail breaks off, and she herself will tie her chapars to her leg; puts it on others at the chapar stones, goes to the mountain to see, shouts that a hunter is coming, the foxes run away with their tails cut off; the fox pretends to be dead, two apricot sellers pick it up, she points her finger in the back, he thinks companion, they fight, the fox steals donkeys with apricots; invites the wolf to go eat a fat tail, supposedly there is no owner; when the wolf is full, leaves the house, shouts that the owner is coming, people beat the wolf half to death; the same with vineyard; with fried cakes; the fox leads the wolf to the well it dug, brushwood and fat tail on top; the wolf fails and dies]: Andreev, Peschereva 1957, No. 39:181-184); burishi [White Virgo (Dē u, DB) is hired by the noble king Shahzad Bahram (B.) to see him; but he does not go out to the people; DB takes the form of a vizier, advises B. to go out; takes the form of a beautiful horse; when B. on He sits down, takes him to heaven; calls him son; leaves, leaving many peri in care, forbiding B. to let B. into the same garden; B. threatens to kill himself, the peri are forced to let him in; there to the milk pond Seven doves arrive, leave their clothes, drip; then Shahri BƒÅnu arrives, DB himself is in love with her; B. hides, fumigates SB's clothes with smoke from cow manure; returns when the SB calls him not father, uncle, son, and husband; SB wears it but cannot take off; when BD returns, B. hides SB in the room; confesses everything; although BD is upset, he marries lovers; one day B. sees in a dream that his Pipe Keeper (HT, Pipe Bearer) has seized power on earth, tyrannizes his (B.) ex-wife and sons; DB releases B. and SB, gives hair from his armpit to cause him in case of trouble; they settle in the poor man's house; while B. is hunting, HT comes, demands SB for himself; sends servants, who do not return at first, because they faint because of the beauty of the SB; SB promises to marry HT if he allows put her on her clothes; flies to Shahr-i-Shaskin (SHSH), throwing the ground in HT's face; B. calls the DB, the subjects recognize B. as king, he appoints the poor man with whom he lived to replace HT, goes to look for the SB; only an old maiden knows the way to school; wearing an invisible hat, B. overhears a girl telling the boy that her sister SB wants to marry today, but she does not want to; B. quietly eats food, boy and the girl fights, accusing each other; B. finds SH, her mother tells them to flee, but B. first defeats the army of the king, the groom of the SB (invisible, he makes the warriors kill each other); the SB father recognizes B. as a son-in-law; b. and SB return home, the poor man is made a vizier]: Lorimer 1935, No. 1:3-33.

Baltoscandia. Finns, Latvians, Lithuanians [blind men duped into fighting; Trickster says he gave one of the blind money they should share; he didn't actually; blind people accuse each other, fighting]: Uther 2004 (2), No. 1577:316.

Volga - Perm. Chuvashi [orphan Pugan ("stool") works for a tailor; beat the children, thought he was a hero; sewed himself a belt with the inscription "beat five in one fell swoop"; two heroes offer him pick up a huge stone, squeeze water out of the sand; P. quietly transports the stone on a cart, puts it under his head, squeezes water out of the cottage cheese; they offer to drink, P. quietly pours vodka by the boot, binds intoxicated, brings them to the king; the king asks to catch a wild boar, P. runs away from the boar, locks him in the chapel; quietly throws pebbles at three sleeping heroes; they accuse and kill each other; the king appointed P. Commander-in-Chief]: Eisin 1993:102-109.

Turkestan. Kazakhs: Marchenko 1993 [a childless old woman milked a goat, she knocked over the bucket, the old woman tore off her kuyyrshyk {tail?} , he turned into a son; rode a camel to get salt; hid from the weather under a leaf, the camel ate grass, swallowed it; the camel was brought home, the old people heard K.'s voice, stabbed the camel, the Wolf ate giblets; when he approaches the herd, K. screams from his belly, calls the shepherds; The fox advised him to sweat, sit on the ice, sit until morning; The wolf froze, the travelers killed him, ripped off his skin, quietly took K .; stopped for the night; K. blew out the fire, ate everything; others began to blame each other; went to bed; K. put the slaughtered ram between the guests, tied braids to the master's daughters, put braids on the owner's heads cauldron, a tripod hung above the door, filled nails into the ground at the door; shouted that wolves were coming; the owner hit the cauldron, tripod, sat on nails, screamed; the guests accuse each other that the other had turned into ram, girls - that the other is holding her braids; everyone is fighting; K. burst with laughter]: 81-84; Sidelnikov 1962 [Shaitan is unable to quarrel between the blind and the deaf; Aldar-Kose undertakes to do it; the blind sends deaf to find out who came; AK hits him in the face twice, says loudly that this is for you and this is for your friend; the blind man does not believe it was not about alms; friends fight]: 282-284.

Southern Siberia - Mongolia. The Mongols (Khalkha) [the old woman tore off the tail of the goat, which turned into a boy; the camel swallowed it along with the grass; the old woman stabbed the camel, but threw out the cecum where the boy was; the intestine swallowed by a wolf; when the wolf approaches the cattle, the boy screams, Catch; the wolf asks the fox for help, she tells him to defecate at the crossroads of seven roads; the boy goes out, kills a sheep, a premature lamb puts between two sleeping girls, covers the old man and the old woman with fat from the peritoneum, the liquid from the peritoneum pours between the two guys; when the girls wake up, they argue whose miscarriage is; the old man and the old woman take fat for the fur coat, the old man hits the old woman because she tore her fur coat by pulling it towards herself at night; the guys also quarreled; the boy laughed, his ass cracked, he died]: Potanin 1883, No. 166:550-551; the Mongols (Ordos) [old man's son Chulmun made a violin out of a horse's skull; his father advised him to learn the craft of thieves better; C. came to two blind old men who passed lamb to each other; unnoticed he took it himself, the old men began to fight; in the yurt one driver sewed, the other slept; C. quietly took the awl, pricked the sleeper; the drovers began to fight; as a result, C. stole their bulls and took away the yurt; stole the mule, his owner caught up, tied a bunch of firewood to C.'s back, threw it into the river; C. got out, told the humpback shepherd of pigs that he had cured his hump with this bundle; the shepherd removed the bundle from C.'s back, C. threw it into the river, took the herd; the king promises C. a daughter if he steals his ring; took the ring in his mouth, put the dogs Garge and Barge at the gate, two old men at the middle gate, two old women at the inside, at his door chambers - two girls; C. gave the dogs lamb, tied lamb's kidneys to the braids of the old men, a bladder with water on the hem of the old women, a vessel of blood on the hem of two girls; dripped bile into the mouth of the sleeping king, he spit out, spit out the ring, C. took it away, ran away; lamb buds began to drink on the backs of the old men who jumped up, each thought the other was hitting him; every old woman accuses the other for peeing herself, each the girl - that the other gave birth; C. received a princess; she sleeps with another man; C. made a hole in the bucket, sent his wife to water the horse, strangled his lover; pretended to notice him only when his wife returned; told her invite a man; wife: he died; C. sent her to throw the corpse into the hole, hid there himself, called out to his wife, who returned in horror; again with another hole; the wife asked for forgiveness; C. brought the corpse to the house of the deceased, his wife called out in his voice; she does not want to reveal it to her husband since he is sleeping with his wife C.; imaginary husband: then I will hang myself; when she finds the corpse, the wife decided that her husband hanged himself; C. lives well with his wife]: Mostaert 1937, No. 21 in Solovyov 2014.

Eastern Siberia. Yakuts (place of recording is not specified; central?)) [a son six fists tall leaves his mother; on the North Sea, he invites a local hero to grind a stone into powder, rubs pre-taken charred cow buds; in the south, he throws a stone into a dispute , and the bullfinch, a local hero, cannot throw a stone so far; two one-eyed abaas came to marry the daughter of the priest by the East Sea, and a bull coming out of the sea sucks everyone into his mouth; the guy throws a stone in the eye of an abaasa, he thinks his friend did it, they fight, in the morning the guy cuts off their heads; he holds on to the aal-luuk tree, the bull does not pull it in, the tree butts, gets stuck; the pen cuts off his head; marries a priest's daughter]: Sivtsev, Efremov 1990:158-162.

Japan. Japanese [blind men duped into fighting; Trickster says he gave one of the blind men money they should share; didn't really; blind people blame each other, fight]: Uther 2004 (2), NO. 1577:316.

SV Asia. Coastal Koryaks (Palana) [Vicks asks the daughter of a rich man; he requires V. to kill 1) two giants; they sleep, V. throws stones at them, they accuse each other, fight, kill each other ; 2) a unicorn bull; V. hides behind a tree, the horn pierces the trunk, V. cuts it down, brings a bull; gets a wife]: Menovshchikov 1974, No. 138:430-434.

Subarctic. Slevy [mother-in-law thinks that her son-in-law comes to her at night; invites his pregnant daughter to take out her lice, pierces an awl into her ear, puts on her scalp; does not react to her husband's arrival; he grabs her hair, tears off her wig, her husband burns her mother-in-law in the fire; pulls a living child out of the womb of the murdered woman, feeds birds with brains; Wolverine kidnaps the boy; a real father finds him, explains that he is not Wolverine's son; now the young man gives the best meat to his father, the worst Wolverine; burns Wolverine in the fire; contrary to his father's warning, he goes to look for his parents, two Giants Siamese twins kill him; his father revives him, his son goes again, is killed again, his father cannot revive him; shoots sleeping giants; each of them thinks the other has pricked him; they fight, kill each other]: Moore, Wheelock 1990, #3:13-21.

NW Coast. Bellacula [after his adventures, the young man returns home riding salmon; many blind women are digging roots on the shore; he takes their food; they blame each other, fight; he spits in their eyes making sighted; spending a few days with them making love]: McIlwraith 1948 (2): 480-481; Nootka (south west coast of Vancouver Island) [see motive L41; after killing the cannibal and her husband, Eut-le-Ten became chief; decided to marry the daughter of the heavenly leader; ordered to prepare arrows; shooting at the sky, he made a chain; in the sky two blind old women are preparing food, E. quietly intercepts it, they quarrel; he confesses makes holes in their eyes, restoring their sight; old women give him strength to overcome trials; turning into the puddle of tears from which he once arose, E. overcomes the lake with frogs, cod (it is enough luminaries during eclipses), two snakes; breaks the stakes he should have run into; unharmed in the fire; turns into a puddle of tears when a log rolls at him; gets a wife; later returns to land]: Carmichael 2006:37-41.

The coast is the Plateau. Shuswap [a dirty young man wanders aimlessly, meets two blind moose women; takes their food, they quarrel; he makes them sighted; they turn him handsome, they marry him; agree to go together with him to his people, they tell other women not to smile; one day he smiles; his wives and children turn into moose, meat and fat into caribou, moose, etc., they run away; he himself becomes so a fly, as he was]: Teit 1909a, No. 38:711-713; Thompson [at the beginning of time, Coyote makes a son out of clay; he bathes, dissolves in water; from resin he melts in the sun; from white stone he lives, his name Nlixentem; Loon and Duck give him daughters as wives, one dark skinned, the other is light; Coyote turns his excrement into eagle chicks, asks his son to climb a tree for them, tells the tree to become tall, clothed and dressed in the form of a son, comes to his wives, takes a bright one, drives away a dark-skinned woman; N. walks along the heavenly plain, pulls out large edible rhizomes, the wind blows out of the holes, these rhizomes stars; goes into an empty dugout, takes the basket, baskets attack him; he puts the basket back, tells the baskets to become people's servants; the same episode in the dugout of mats; awls; combs, birch bark vessels; N. comes to two blind old women; they eat rotten wood, pass food to each other, N. intercepts it, old women quarrel, accusing each other; feel the man, say that he smells bad; N. turns them into two types of hazel grouses; comes to the spider spouses, they call themselves his grandfather and grandmother, they lower them to the ground in a basket; N. finds a faithful wife and son; the Coyote people are starving, the Raven discovers N., who has returned, receives meat for his children; people force him to confess where the meat comes from; they return to N., celebrate, ask him to take his second wife back; N. sends the Coyote for the carcass of the killed deer, The coyote falls into the river, swims to the dam, followed by two sisters holding salmon; turns into a wooden plate; eats food, throws the plate into the fire, the Coyote turns into a baby, the sisters adopt him; into theirs absence he breaks the dam by releasing salmon into rivers; goes downstream; asks three or four girls if they want salmon, the youngest answers, Yes; he sends his own across the river penis, the end remains in the vagina, the girl falls ill; the Coyote carries salmon along the rivers; a group of girls replies that they want mountain sheep meat, not salmon; at this point, the Coyote creates rapids; under the guise The shaman comes to the sick person, asks everyone to sing loudly, leave him with the girl in the steam room, copulates, removes the end of the penis, the girl recovers; the Coyote creates fake berries on the bushes, Negotiates with the Grizzly to eat her supplies first, then him; runs away, the berries dry up]: Teit, No. 2:21-29; Takelma [Daldal (dragonfly) and his younger brother travel, transforming dangerous creatures; they come to two blind women; a younger brother steals their food, women quarrel and fight; D. touches their eyes with a hot spear tip; women see the light]: Sapir 1909, No. 2:38.

The Midwest. Menominee [two blind men have ropes stretched out to the river and to firewood; a raccoon ties ropes to other objects, steals blind meat; they fight and then curse it]: Bloomfield 1928, #94.3 [Raccoon ties the rope so that the old man who goes to get water does not fall into the river, but into the thickets; when another walks, the Raccoon ties it back to its original place; eats meat, the blind fight; they understand that they are being fooled by a Raccoon , put a net in the doorway; Raccoon throws their bowler hat at it, they smash it to pieces; Raccoon runs away]: 347-351; Hoffman 1896:211-213; Skinner, Satterlee 1915, No. II36:413-415; Ojibwa [two blind They tied a rope so as not to get lost when leaving home; the raccoon ties it in another object; the blind quarrel, fighting; the raccoon laughs; the woman wants to kill him; he teaches her how to make her daughter tall, throwing her into the river; gets this girl as his wife]: Radin 1914, No. 44:80-81; sauk [two blind old men argue who would get a woman if she showed up; Visakya hits one, they start fight; V. sets fire to their house]: Skinner 1928, No. 12:152; kickapoo [see K1K motif; the chief has two wives; one does not love the other's son; he shot a bird; a woman puts it between her legs to make her scratched; complains to her husband that the young man wanted to rape her; the husband tells everyone to sail across the sea, leaving his son alone; two blind old men sing: This is how I will hit the Abandoned; the young man bandages him to another The place of the rope on which they walk to the water; old people fall, accuse each other, fight; the young man invites them to attack him from both sides; they kill each other]: Jones 1915, No. 10:75-89.

Northeast. Seneca: Curtin, Hewitt 1918, No. 114 [see motif F69; a witch sends a wind that blows the young man's eyes away; his sister marries a witch's son, gives birth to twin sons; the grandmother gives them a ball to play; following for the ball, they come to their blind uncle; they put in the eyes of owls, eagles, they are not good; they each give one eye; they come to their aunts (the witch's daughters); turn into fleas, bite them legs; every aunt thinks the other is pinching her; they fight, they kill each other; twins find a baby girl decorated with human eyes; send eyes to their owners; a girl has life witches; twins kill a girl, a witch dies]: 543-555; Leland 1968 [two blind sisters go to fetch water, groping a rope; Trickster (a name is not a decree.) ties a rope to another place; one woman does not can find water, another says her sister is lazy; he throws hot porridge in both faces; women fight with each other]: 196-197; mikmaq [The old bear takes another old woman as a companion; Wolverine's trickster (or Raccoon) burns their legs one by one; they blame each other; the trickster dies laughing; then comes to life, runs away from the cauldron]: Leland 1968:175-177; penobscot [Raccoon wants scream over the noise of the rapids, falls into the river, drowns; two old women fresh it, cook meat with their backs to each other; the raccoon splashes boiling water on both, they accuse each other, fight; the raccoon jumps out of the cauldron, puts on her skin, runs away]: Speck 1935b, No. 70:99.

Plains. Hidatsa [The Coyote comes quietly to two blind people; one catches fish, the other cooks it; the Coyote steals from both, gives back bones; the blind accuse each other, fight]: Beckwith 1938, No. 38:287; arpaho [Bear pokes burning smut at two sleeping old men; they accuse each other, fight; Bear laughs]: Dorsey, Kroeber 1903, No. 95:227; Arikara [Coyote comes to the house of two blind; eats their food, pokes the end of the hot smut at each of them; first they accuse each other, then grab the Coyote; they hole his ears, tie pebbles to them, tell them to leave without looking back; he looks around, the pebbles become big, he can't walk, he dies]: Park 1996, No. 51:357-359; throw off the pawnee [two Morning Stars live on earth in the guise of blind old men; Raven and Coyote steal from them meat, they blame each other; the Coyote hits one or the other; they guess they kill Coyote with a spear; the stone door in their house closes and opens at their word]: Dorsey 1904b, No. 11:52-55; tonkawa [a young man comes to two dangerous old men; shoves one smut unnoticed; the old men start fighting each other, the young man laughs; promises to bring them home; they refuse to get down; uncles young men tell them to take them back, give them meat; old people get off]: Hoijer 1972, No. 17:57-58.

The Great Southwest. Jicarilla: Opler 1938, No. 44 [the old man is blind, his wife can hardly see; their eldest daughter left them a pot of boiled corn; the old man always touches the corolla with a stick; Coyote puts it under it his stick, pulls out the pot, eats corn; the old man thinks that his wife took the porridge; they quarrel and fight; when the daughter returns, the children say that Coyote came into the house; she washes the pot]: 314- 316; Russel 1898 [two blind women cooking porridge; two boys changed an empty pot of porridge; hit one woman on the lips; she thinks she hit another; women fight]: 269; chiricahua [two old people spend the night in a cave with their backs to the fire; a man burns their asses; they blame each other, fight]: Opler 1942, No. 1:89-90.

Chaco. K1081: blind men duped into fighting. Toba (oriental) [two blind people had food at their will; people are starving, asking the Hawk to pick up food from the blind; he grabs food when the blind give it to each other; they quarreled got into a fight; The hawk filled the bag with food, ran away; after that, the food did not appear on its own]: Wilbert, Simoneau 1989a, No. 351:454-455; nivacle [Owl and Chunga (Chunga burmeisteri bird) splash on blind people are hot fat, they fight with each other]: Wilbert, Simoneau 1987b, No. 141 [warriors raid another village; Woodpecker approaches their camp, sings, people laugh at his singing; at night their Woodpecker dazzles; one did not laugh, remains sighted, leads them; the hive answers where he is, how much honey is in it; the lake is where it is, whether it has enough water; their bags catch eels themselves, which the blind grab their hands and they throw it ashore; the owl watches it, rips off the baked eels, hot liquid splashes on the blind, they blame each other, fight; the owl laughs, says Chunga; he repeats the trick, but the blind hear his laughter, send fire at him; he hides under termite munites, but his legs are burned; the blind have built a village on that spot], 142 [a group of warriors stops for the night; the old shaman sings, others laugh at him, he promises to deprive them of their sight; in the morning they wake up blind; they easily get honey; they call water, water answers, they catch blackheads; an owl catches their eels, keeps them from laughing; agrees to bring Chung there if he does not laugh; taking away the eels, he laughs; the blind let the fire follow, now the Chunga has red legs], 143 [people have gone to a new place, leaving four blind; the young man came back, led them; the beehives answer them themselves; the young man pours honey on the blind, they accuse each other, fight; the young man laughs silently; the eels from the lakes answer; the blind find the fattest, throw them in their bags, they open themselves; the blind fry eels; the owl picks them up from the tree, the fat drips on the blind, they fight, blaming each other; the owl restrains laughter; at home, Chung asks him to be taken to that tree repeats the trick; after running away, laughing, the blind set fire to the savannah; Chunka hides in a termite mound, his beak and legs turned red; the owl in the tree suffered from smoke, turned gray (flesh-colored); nivacle ran from fire south beyond Rio Bermejo], 144 [the man smeared his face, told others to do the same, they refused, he made them blind at night; he led them; honey, the lake answered their call; they fry eels, Owl stole eels, sprayed hot fat on the blind; they blame each other, fight; his companion Chunga did the same, but laughed; the blind let fire after him, his legs turned red; smoke Owl ate Owl's eyes, he can't see well now], 145 [blind people fried eels, Chunga and Owl were sitting in a tree; Chunga picked up a hot piece, threw it at them, they blame each other, fight; the Owl tells us not to laugh; Chunga runs away and laughs; the blind throw coal after him, the savannah burns, Chunga hides in a termite mound, his legs turn red; the owl on the tree is gray with smoke]: 315-319, 320-322, 323-329, 330-331, 332-333; poppies [The blind intowoolei were collecting honey, catching eels; the lizard climbed a tree, set fire to the end of the stick in the fire on which eels were cooked, poked at the blind; they accused each other, got into a fight; the lizard laughed, ran away]: Wilbert, Simoneau 1991a, No. 103:227-228.