Blind Dupe. A blind man's arrow is aimed for him by his mother (or wife) who deceives him into thinking that he has missed his aim. She eats the slain game herself — Mythoi

Motif

Blind Dupe. A blind man's arrow is aimed for him by his mother (or wife) who deceives him into thinking that he has missed his aim. She eats the slain game herself.

Deceptions. · Thefts and cheats. · Thefts. · Means of hoodwinking the guardian or owner. · view the constellation · filed as K333.1

Attested across traditions

North American Indigenous Tales of the North American Indians , Tale 74 receipt

Filed across the traditions

Cheremis Sebeok-Nyerges
Eskimo (Greenland) Rasmussen III 78, 202
N. Am. Indian *Thompson Tales 354 n. 278.

Within the index

Filed under Theft from blind person.

Filed beside it

Theft from three old women who have but a single eye among them. The hero seizes their eye Buzzard steals coyote's eyes, while he is throwing them up in the air Blind beggar overheard telling that his money is kept in a stick. Thief exchanges sticks Theft by blinding with pepper

Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes

Basilisk. A mythical lizard or serpent whose hissing drives away all other serpents Water of Life. Resuscitation by water Water of life and death. One water kills, the other restores to life

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