Eye-remedy. Under pretence of curing eyesight the trickster blinds the dupe. (Often with a glowing mass thrust into the eye.) — Mythoi

Motif

Eye-remedy. Under pretence of curing eyesight the trickster blinds the dupe. (Often with a glowing mass thrust into the eye.)

Deceptions. · Deception into self-injury. · Deception through false doctoring. · view the constellation · filed as K1011

Filed across the traditions

Icelandic Boberg
Spanish Exempla Keller
India Thompson-Balys
general *Type 1135
general *BP III 375
general **Hackman Polyphemsage
general *Herbert III 40ff.
general Hervieux IV 204 No. 29
general Africa (Ibo, Nigeria): Basden 140.

Within the index

Filed under Deception through false doctoring.

2 finer motifs beneath it

Fool deceived into curing headache by removing his eyes Ashes as remedy for sore eyes

Filed beside it

Remedy: covering with dry leaves. Victim burned up. (Cf. K1013.2.) Making the dupe strong. The false doctor injures him False beauty-doctor. The trickster pretends to make the dupe beautiful. Injures him Pepper given as ointment for burns. (Cf. K1045.) False remedy for toothache Beetles and barley introduced into wounds on pretence of healing them Feeling pulse: doctor severs arteries instead Hare flatters other animals into letting it bite off their ears

Carried in tale types

The Blinded Ogre · ATU 1137 2 recorded variants
Eye-Remedy · ATU 1135 1 recorded variant

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