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M62B - When aiming at a hero, they hit each other
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Summary of Motif
Two or more characters aim their weapons at the hero in between, but they hit each other.Berezkin category: Adventures: Tricks and episodes
This is of motif type Adventures and tricks and is part group 11, Tricks and competitions won thanks to deception, absurd and obscene behavior
M62 has 5 other sub-motifsM62a. 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. Click here if would you like to see a distrbution map combining all of M62's motifs? |
Top 10 Motifs with similar dispersal patterns
| Motif | Similarity | Motif Summary |
|---|---|---|
| M30C | 91.71% | A character flying through the air falls, violating the ban on talking, looking down, flying over villages, etc. (The character is not dropped by the person carrying it and flies above the ground, not descends from the sky or rises to the sky). |
| L99 | 89.87% | Having captured the character, the ogre orders him to bring wood or a spit to roast him. The character deliberately procrastinates, brings the wrong thing, or is helped to escape by some animal. |
| M60 | 88.72% | After injuring a demon (robber), the hero goes to his locus. There he, or (rarely) his assistant, pretends to be a doctor and finishes off an opponent. |
| B42C | 87.83% | In the cosmic hunting plot, the object of pursuit is a bear. See motifs B42 and B42P. |
| M93A | 86.01% | The character punishes a part of his body (burns his ass, breaks his eyes) for not sounding the alarm. See Motive M93; cf. Motive M142. |
| I2 | 85.88% | Lightning bolts fly from the eyes or mouth {specified} of a creature embodying a thunderstorm. See motif I1. |
| C6D | 85.40% | Land (earth) is formed from a small amount of solid substance (silt, sand, clay, mud) that characters retrieve from the underworld (usually from the bottom of the ocean). |
| A38A | 85.34% | The sun is caught in a loop made of a woman's pubic hair. |
| L9B | 85.31% | The sharp elbows or (rarely) knees of the character resemble knives or awls. |
| D4C | 84.87% | Characters obtain the warm season from its original owners. |
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This motif has been recorded in 17 traditions: Oromo (Galla), Konso, Sidamo, Darasa, Bussa (Bassa), Kambata, Guji, Lavrung, Jiarong; Qiang (incl rGyalrong), Ancient Greece, Georgians, Uyghur, Dolgans, Dogrib, Slavey, Montagnais, Menominee, Sauk (Sak, Mesquakie), Fox, Kickapoo, Plains Cree, Plains Ojibwa, Assiniboine, Western Shoshone, Gosiute, Amuesha, Mocovi; Kechua of Santiago del Estero with probable Guaikuruan substratum; Abipon, Central Tibetans (Yu Tsang, incl. Sikkim Tibetans, Tichurong of NW Nepal)