Why worm is blind. (Cf. A2284.3.)

Motif

Why worm is blind. (Cf. A2284.3.)

Mythological motifs. · Animal characteristics. · Causes of animal characteristics: body. · Origin of animal characteristics: face. · view the constellation · filed as A2332.6.4

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

Literary Crystallization The Prophetic Books of William Blake (Sampson's Oxford Blake) , Visions of the Daughters of Albion
Literary Crystallization Masnavi i Ma'navi: The Spiritual Couplets (abridged) , Book 4, Story 6
Literary Crystallization Four Plays (The Tempest, A Midsummer-Night's Dream, The Winter's Tale, King Lear) — University Press Shakespeare, ed. Sidney Lee , King Lear Act 4

Filed across the traditions

Japanese Ikeda.

Within the index

Filed under "Blindness" in animals. Animals really or supposedly blind.

Filed beside it

Why blindworm has no eyes. (Cf. A2241.5.) Why giant lizard is blind. Chose poison instead of eyes Why grasshopper is born blind. (Cf. A2233.4.) Why mole is blind Why owl is blind by day. (Cf. A2233.3.) Why elephant sees half-blindly Why leech is blind Why bee is blind

Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)

Worm, thinking that world is coming to end, blinds self so as not to see calamity. (Cf. A2332.6.4.)

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