μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Blind men duped into fighting: stolen meat. The trickster steals one piece of meat. The blind accuse each other and fight.

Deceptions. · Deception into self-injury. · Persons duped into injuring each other. · view the constellation · filed as K1081.2

Filed across the traditions
  • Italian Novella Rotunda
  • N. Am. Indian *Thompson Tales 298 n. 89
  • general Africa (Ibo, Nigeria): Thomas 82, 124.
Within the index

Filed under Blind men duped into fighting.

Filed beside it
Blind men duped into fighting: money to be divided. Trickster says that he is giving one of them money to be divided with the others. Gives it to none. They quarrel and fight. (Cf. K1883.6.) Blind men duped into fighting: strings leading to water removed

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