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

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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

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Scholars’ trail — 3references

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Italian NovellaRotunda
N. Am. Indian*Thompson Tales 298 n. 89
general Africa (Ibo, Nigeria): Thomas 82, 124.

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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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