M62B. When aiming at a hero, they hit each other. .13.21.27.29.33.35.38.41.43.-.46.49.

Two or more characters aim their weapons at the hero in between, but they hit each other.

Konso, Tibetans (Amdo), Lavrung, Ancient Greece, Georgians, Uighurs (Lobnor), Dolgans, Ainu, Dogrib, Quarry, Menominee, Eastern Cree, Northern Ojibwa (Sandy Lake), Eastern Ojibwa (timagami), kickapoo, montagnier, assiniboine, santi, eastern shoshones.

Sudan - East Africa. Konso [the man saw four enemies, climbed a tree; they noticed him; he invited them to stand on four sides, put their spears at him, jumped, and they hit each other to death]: Jensen 1936, No. 18:507.

Tibet is the Northeast of India. Tibetans (Amdo) [a rabbit and a yeti woman live together, dig wild tubers, both have a son; the yeti takes the rabbit's largest tubers; the latter does not want to give, the yeti kills her; rabbits report this to the rabbit; he invites the son of the yeti to lift the millstone, licks the flour under him; the son of the yeti also wants flour, the rabbit crushed him to death with a millstone; runs away; the shepherd hides him among sheep, but at the sight of a fire-breathing yeti, he tells him to run further; also a herd; the wild yak hides it in his nostril, pierces the yeti to death with horns; the rabbit does not want to go out, the yak blows it out; the rabbit promises praise yak; calls his nostril golden; hiding in a hole, screams that he has crap there; yak tries to butt a hole, sprained his back and dies; the rabbit stays with a married couple; they ask how he can herd their cattle, take care of the child; he first gives absurd answers, then says how he will caress the child; cooks him, hangs his guts, puts a pigeon in bed; returning parents They ate their child; the rabbit comes every day and screams about it; they smeared the stone with glue, the rabbit stuck; asks if they want to kill him kindly (break his head with a stone) or maliciously: make a fire around, dust their ears, hit each other on both sides with sticks; they want maliciously; the dust got into the couple's eyes, they killed each other with sticks, the glue melted from the fire, the rabbit ran away; but The tail has come off, so the rabbits have a short tail]: Kajihama 2004, No. 21:82-88; lavrung [Black Bear and Rabbit have a daughter each; both go to dig edible roots; one day the Bear returns alone; she answers Rabbit's daughter that she will eat her if she does not stop asking her where her mother is; she overhears the Bear talking to her daughter, realizes that the Bear killed the Rabbit; invites the Bear's daughter to shoot at each other, puts a stone on her chest and paper on her chest; the arrow bounces off Rabbit's daughter's chest, kills the Bear's daughter; the Rabbit's daughter runs; the shepherd hides her in the sheep's ear; she throws ash into the face of the Bear who arrives in time, runs on; the same with the horse; then she hides in the Tiger's ear, who swallows the Bear; Rabbit's daughter chews roots, answers Tiger that she eats her eye; gives a spine, then takes out Tiger's eye, he says that his eye is not so tasty, asks him to take out the second one; asks him to drive him slowly along a bumpy road and quickly along a smooth road; Rabbit's daughter leads The tiger is on the edge of the cliff, makes a fire, asks him to move, the Tiger falls, breaks; comes into the house, tells the owners that a tiger lies under the mountain, promises to watch the baby and the cows; kills them, fills the baby with ash, the cows with straw; the hostess spanks the baby, tries to milk the cows, they fall apart; the Rabbit's daughter invites the hostess to stand with a stone at the top of the stairs, the owner with onions below, Throw a rock at her and shoot at the signal; they kill each other]: G.yu lha 2011:369-373.

The Balkans. Ancient Greece [excerpts from Pindar's text (c. 522 - c. 443 BC) about Ota and Efialt: "... Quickly sprout into steep skies"; "... They drove spears of mutual death into each other" (trans. M.L. Gasparova)]: Pind. Fr. 162-163; ["Poseidon, who came down with her {Iphimedeus}, gave birth to two sons, Ota and Ethialt, called the Aloads. Each year, these Aloads grew in width by an elbow and a fathom in height. At the age of nine, nine cubits wide and nine fathoms tall, the Aloads ventured to fight the deity and piled Mount Ossa to Olympus, and Mount Pelion was piled up on Ossa: they became threaten that they will climb to the sky from the height of these mountains, that they will turn the sea into a continent, covered with mountains, and the land into the sea. Efialt began to marry Hera, and From to Artemis. They also tied Ares up, but Hermes stole him. Artemis destroyed the Aloads on the island of Naxos by deception. Taking the form of a deer, she jumped and stood between them; the Aloads, trying to hit the animal with darts, pierced each other" (trans. V.G. Borukhovich)]: Apollod. Bibl. I. 7.4 (Apollodorus 1972:11-12); ["Myths" attributed to Guy Julius Gigin, who lived at the turn of the eras, but most likely date back to the 1st and 2nd centuries: "Other writers say that they {Ot and Efialt} were sons Neptune and Iphimedees and that they were invulnerable. When they wanted to rape Diana and she couldn't resist their strength, Apollo put a doe between them. Out of anger, they tried to kill her with spears and killed each other. In the underworld, they suffer this punishment: they are tied by snakes to a pole facing the opposite side of each other; between them is an owl sitting on a pole to which they are tied" (trans. D.O. Torshilova)]: Hyg. Fab. 28.

Caucasus - Asia Minor. Georgians [Comble wants to kill the wolf, he promises to carry the golden sheep out of the flock; the shepherds follow, the flock goes to K.; he explains that his three sheep have bred in the forest; others they send sheep to the forest, wolves eat them; people burn K.'s house; he collects a wicker of ash, puts coins on top; comes to someone else's house, demands money in the morning, gives him money; neighbors burn their houses, try in vain exchange ash for money; kill K.'s wife; he brings her to the house where he wants to stay, leans against a tree; the owner's daughters lead her under her arms, she falls, they think they killed her; K. gets in return the most beautiful daughter; people kill wives, try in vain to exchange the dead for the living; K. tells everyone to climb into holes to kill him; he hides in the central one, people chop each other]: Chikovani 1954:304-306.

Turkestan. The Uighurs (Lobnor) [the steppe fox asked the old woman to take her son; the sandy fox asked her to take her as her daughter; while living with the old woman, they asked her to give them the key; seized her belongings and ran away; when the sandy one fell asleep, the steppe Half of the kidnapped was buried, and took the other with her and ran away; the sandfox returned to the old woman, told her that she was chasing the steppe, asked her to feed her for 6 days, and then she would catch up with the thief; gold and silver, came to the steppe fox and sent her to the old woman now; she, entering the house, invited the old woman and her daughter to hit her from both sides with a stick; they hit and killed each other; both foxes began to live old women in the house and got rich]: Malov 1956, No. 1:30-34.

Eastern Siberia. Dolgans [The fox convinces Myselov's bird that the deer and the camp are strangers; he kills a deer from his own herd, kills his wife and children; later he sees that Lisa did not kill her children, only bit their ears; the Mouselov lures the Fox onto thin ice; she falls through, gets to the fish mother, promises to heal, acting as a shaman, tells her to put a stick and then get up on the ice; says that the patient will scream; she ate the fish and ran away; sits on the woman's sledges, eats a bag of meat, replies that the area is called Polsumy, Donyshko; the bear wants to eat it, she promises to get fat, after sleeping; both lie down on the edge of the mountain; at night, the Fox lies down on the other side of the Bear, asks him to move, he falls; tells the man that he eats his penis; he cuts off his own, dies; the fox comes to his two wives, hides their face; in the dark, they try to cut the Fox with an ax, but cut the pregnant woman's belly; tells the Wolf that he gets fat by lowering his tail into the ice-hole; the wolf tail freezes, is torn off; other Wolves it is said that Lisa came, breaking her tooth on a sharp deer stomach; a lot of Fox was sitting around the fire; the Wolf smeared his ass in ash, began to dance ridiculously; everyone laughed, closed her mouth alone, the Wolf tore her to pieces]: Popov 1937:28-33.

Japan. Aina [The Fox and the Bear carry each other; the fox pushes the sledges off the cliff, eats Bear meat; ties a bear bubble to its tail; two deer rush to see what it is; the fox slips out, they kill each other with horns; the fox advises the Hare to put its tail into the ice-hole, then a bubble will also appear at the end; the tail freezes into the ice, since then the Tailless Hare]: Pilsudski 1991b, No. 7:76.

Subarctic. Dogrib [the giant Naba-Cha caught and brought a Cree young man named Ithenhiela ("with-foot-caribou"); an elk named Hottah lived in N.'s home; ordered to take a lump of land, a bunch of moss, a stone, a branch; carried I. himself on his back to Big Water in the west, where the good Nesnabi lived; tells him to throw objects behind, hills, swamp, Rocky Mountains appear; H. carries the young man across the Yukon; when he carries the giant, he drowns; I. comes to a man who gives him 7 arrows, tells him not to climb a tree after them if the arrows are stuck; a young man climbs into the sky; two blind old women have taken the magic belt of heaven Chief Hatempka; a young man comes to old women; copper blades protrude from their backs; he throws a bag of feathers between them; old women pierce each other; I. returns the belt to the chief, marries his daughter; the northern lights are "I's fingers"]: Bell 1903, No. 3:80-84 (paraphrased in Clark 1960:99-103).

The coast is the Plateau. Career: Jenness 1934, No. 10 (Hagvilgate) [a young man comes to the world of the dead; an old woman adopts him; two blind women pierce the suitors of a girl living in their house with sharp forearms; a young man changed jewelry (now his name is Kite (Labretka), women pierce the girl hoping to kill K.; K. throws his blanket inside the house; women pierce each other, die; K. kidnaps the wife of the Great Soni; K.'s adoptive mother gives him a boat, oars, and copper hats; the fugitives are safe when Great Sonya sends flint and stone rains; K. brings his wife home; see motif K1], 30 (Fort Fraser) [Ayasu comes to two blind women; they have sharp elbows; he throws his cape between them, they pierce each other; he replaces their tips with normal hands; makes them sighted]: 145-147, 191.

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; Western Swamp Cree ( stone crees) [grandfather takes Ayās to the island to collect bird eggs, tells him to move away, sails away in a boat; the Horned Serpent says he is grandmother A., tells him to sit between the horns, drives him across the lake, asks me to speak , if a thundercloud appears; A. denies that the cloud is close, says that it is only the noise of water being cut; jumps off the shore, lightning strikes the Horned Serpent; in the morning A. collects blood in a birch bark vessel, The Horned Serpent is reborn, directs A. Frog; she does not repair his moccasins well, the stitches are wide; the next grandmother Mouse repairs well, warns of two blind old women with sharp elbows; A. comes to their house, says he is going to go out, he gets out of the teepee in another place, the old women pierce each other; from another old woman A. feeds poisoned food to a fox hidden under her clothes, throws a fox at the old woman, the fox kills her; A. comes to a scabbed woman who cuts wood; a bird tells her that her son has returned, she does not believe it at first; says A. that those people burn her face and hands every night; A. tells her to ask for a baby throw him into the fire, call him; A. says he will burn the earth, his grandfather and his people do not believe; he fires arrows, everything lights up; A. turns into a crow, his mother into a woodpecker; the woodpecker has a black back and a white apron on the chest]: Brightman 1989:105-112; Eastern Cree (Rupert House) [Aioswé has two wives, he is jealous of one of them for his son from the other; noticing her marks of touch (without details), he believes it a sign of treason; swims with a young man to the island to collect bird eggs, throws; a walrus (i.e. a horned monster) carries a young man, asks him to speak if he hears thunder; the young man lies as if they heard a rumble Walrus himself produces; next time it throws the rider into the water, but the shore is near; Thunder kills the Walrus (var: he escapes; seagulls carry the young man ashore); the old woman explains what to do on his way to at home and when he returns, gives a skin of affection in his winter outfit; comes to two old women (obviously blind - they do not see who has come), they have sharp elbows; the young man attaches a parcel to the stick, sticks a parcel between them , they pierce each other; human bones hang along the path; if touched, they will thunder, dogs will hear and tear; a young man digs an underground passage but touches his bones; dogs scream that it is the son of A.; a young man caresses sticks out his head, people think that the dogs were mistaken, they kill them; at home, the young man fires an arrow, setting fire to the ground, the second makes the water boil; A. asks how to escape, the son advises to sit in a vessel with with bear fat, A. burns; son draws a line, son and mother are safe inside her; son offers to become birds; mother turns into a robin, son turns into a Canadian jay]: Skinner 1911:92-95; Northern Ojibwa (Sandy Lake) [see motive L70; Wai-Mishus leaves his son Iyas 'a on the island; he returns home; two blind old women with sharp elbows kill travelers; I. throws clothes between them, old women pierce each other; I. revives them, cuts off their tips, heals their eyes]: Ray, Stevens 1971:112-120; timagami ojibwa [like Cree; young man throws his clothes at the door old women rush after her, pierce each other; he cuts their bodies into pieces, they turn into bats]: Speck 1915d, No. 10:62-63; kickapoo [see K1K motif; the chief has two wives; one does not love a son another; he shot a bird; a woman puts it between her legs to scratch it; complains to her husband that the young man wanted to rape her; the husband tells everyone to sail across the sea, leaving her son alone; two blind old people sing: This is how I will hit the Abandoned; the young man ties the ropes on which they walk to the water; the old people fall, accuse each other, fight; the young man invites them to attack him on both sides; they're killing each other]: Jones 1915, No. 10:75-89.

Northeast. Montagnier [see motive F69; Chief Ayasheu's youngest wife falsely accuses his son of harassment; A. leaves him on the island; the Horned Creature transports him to the mainland; he comes to the house two blind old men with sharp elbows; throws his jacket at the door, old men pierce each other]: Desbarats 1969:6-12.

Plains. Assiniboine [two women kill men by inviting them into their home and piercing them with sharp elbows; the hero asks women to sit with their backs; leaves a blanket between them; they pierce each other]: Lowie 1909a, No. 26:183-184; santi [see motive K1; older brother's wife accuses younger brother of trying to rape her; husband sends Unktomi to take brother to Unvisited Island Collect bird eggs, throw them there; a young man meets various monsters; comes to two blind people (?) old women who have awl locks; throws a blanket between them, they pierce each other]: Riggs 1893:139-143.

The Big Pool. Eastern shoshones [two blind women kill guests by piercing them with their sharp elbows; a young man sticks a blanket between them; women pierce each other]: Saint Clair 1909b, No. 4:267.

(Cf. Montagna - Jurua. Amuesha [Ayots came down from the sky and mocked Amuesha; his son Poporrona also liked to turn humans into animals; people tried to catch up with him and kill him, but only wounded and killed each other friend; then P. allowed himself to be seized; ordered to build a throne on which he would be nailed; five days later, a poporroch palm with edible fruits appeared in this place; when a yellow-headed vulture Cathartes melambrotos wiped his ass on her, the palm trunk was covered with thorns]: Santos-Granero 1991, No. 14:152).