M62A — Incitement to quarrel (action)

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

Berezkin category: Adventures: Tricks and episodes

This is of motif type Adventures and tricks and is part of group 11, Tricks and competitions won thanks to deception, absurd and obscene behavior.

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 know they're pulling each other's rope or that they're tied to a tree.
M62d.  trickster wears rotten skin, pretends to be another animal, and says that the name (i.e. himself) has caused him to get sick. The animals are frightened, they do not dare to take revenge on the trickster for his tricks. See M62C motif.
M62e.  A weak character alternately negotiates with two strong ones to cultivate the site. Each of the strong works in due time and does not know about the existence of the other. As a result, a weak character takes the entire crop.
M62f.  The character asks others to come to him (to help him with his work or get a debt). Those called come, each next one is stronger than the previous one and eats it (or the previous one runs away when they see him), the last two die when they fight each other.

This motif has been recorded in 72 traditions: Arabs of Iraq, Iraqi, Arabs of Sudan, Sudanese, Congo (Koongo, Bacongo; incl Vili, Fioti, (Ma)Yombe, MuKunyi), Ndombo, Luango (Loango), Zombo (Sambo), Laadi (Laari), (Ba)Fioti, Woyo (Kiwoyo), Ronga, Igbo (Ibo); Isoko, Urhobo, Yoruba; incl Ife), Nupe, Bini (Edo), Engenni, Chamba, Dakka, Kukuruku, Batak (Toba, Dairi), Punjabi, Seraiki (Multani), Sinhalese; Vedda, Burusho (Hunza), England, British, Bretons, Spain, Spaniards, Catalan, Sardinia, Corsica, Sardinians, Corsicans, Dutch, Flemish, Germans: North (Low- and Central German dialects): Schleswig-Holstein, Mecklenburg, Pommern, Niedersachsen (Lower Saxony, incl East Frisia and Oldenburg), Nordrhein-Westfalen, Hessen, Rheinland-Pfalz, Thüringen, Saxony-Anhalt, Sachsen, Brandenburg, Rügen, Poles, Greeks (modern), Balkarians, Romanians, Moldavians, Aromanians, Moldovans, Lithuanians, Latvians, Finns, Byelarusians, Belarusians, Yagnobi, Ingush, Avar, Andi, Akhvakh, Nogai, Crimean Tatars, Karaims, Kazakh, Turkmen, Chuvash, Mongols (Khalkha), Central Yakuts (Sakha), Tungus (Evenki): Baikal region, Evenks, Tungus (Evenki) of China (Solon, Birar, Oroqen, Manegir), Evenks, Tungus (Evenki): Russian Far East, Evenks, Western Tungus (Evenki), Western Siberia Tungus (Evenki): Sym River, Ket River, Reindeer Koryak, Maritime Koryak (Alyutor), Dogrib, Slavey, Nootka (Nu-chah-nulth), Makah, Bella Coola (Nuxalk), Micmac, Wawenock, Abenaki, Penobscot, Western Ojibwa (Chippewa), Eastern Ojibwa (Missisauga, Timagami and other groups in eastern Ontario), Northern Ojibwa (=Severn Ojibwa, Sandy Lake Cree), Menominee, Sauk (Sak, Mesquakie), Fox, Kickapoo, Five Nations Iroquois (Seneca, Mohawk, Onondaga, Oneida, Cayuga), Arapaho, Arikara, Pawnee, Tonkawa, Plains Ojibwa, Hidatsa, Shuswap, Thompson (Nlaka'pamux), Takelma, Jicarilla, Chiricahua, Makka, Nivakle (=Chulupi, Ashluslay, Ajlujlay), Toba (incl Pilagá), Central Tibetans (Yu Tsang, incl. Sikkim Tibetans, Tichurong of NW Nepal), Italians: Central (Toscana, Umbria, Marche, Lazio), Germans: South (Upper German dialects): Alsace (Elsass), Baden-Württemberg, Bawaria, Swabia, Switzerland, Bohemia, Sudeten, Austria, Ilimpii Tungus/Evenki, Yerbogachen Tungus/Evenki, Tungus/Evenki of Nercha - Chita area, Congo, Japan