The constellation
X128 Blind man in awkward position pretends to see
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The same sky, in words
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- Humor of bad eyesight · X120 entry
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- The wife who saw double. Sees two plates where there are one, etc. Thinks two men are with her. Husband: "See everything double except your husband." · X121 entry
- One-eyed man as appraiser of horse. Has appraised it at half a mark. "He saw only half a horse; otherwise he would have valued it at a mark." · X122 entry
- Blind man and the bull. Man asks bull if he is on the right road. Bull butts him and knocks him down. The man says that all that was not necessary, simply to say yes or no · X123 entry
- Nearsighted knight mistakes own servant for one of the enemy. Runs lance into his posterior · X124 entry
- Blind men trying to kill pigs with clubs strike one another. (Cf. K1081.) · X125 entry