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Motif

Blind men duped into fighting.

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

Filed across the traditions
  • Spanish Exempla Keller.
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Filed under Persons duped into injuring each other.

3 finer motifs beneath 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: stolen meat. The trickster steals one piece of meat. The blind accuse each other and fight Blind men duped into fighting: strings leading to water removed
Filed beside it
Ogres (large animals, sharp-elbowed women) duped into fighting each other. Trickster strikes one so that he thinks the other has done it Undesignated present starts quarrel for its possession Liar brings about fight between dupes Woman makes trouble between man and wife: the hair from his beard. She tells the wife to increase her husband's love by cutting a hair from his beard. Also tells the husband that his wife will try to cut his throat. He kills his wife Woman induces men to fight over her and kill each other Falsified message brings about a war Dissension aroused in army by casting suspicion on general. A general destroys everything except what belongs to the general of the enemy. Thus he brings about suspicion that the two leaders are in league Brothers duped into killing each other by slander that one of them is father to the other's child Goddess arouses heroes' jealousy and eternal fighting Treacherous counselor persuades king's son to woo his father's young bride whom he is sent to get, and as he tells the king that he is her lover both are killed
Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)
Blind men trying to kill pigs with clubs strike one another. (Cf. K1081.)

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