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

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

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Scholars’ trail — 9references

The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our shelf are live links; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.

IcelandicBoberg
Spanish ExemplaKeller
IndiaThompson-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 11372 recorded variants
Eye-Remedy · ATU 11351 recorded variant

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