μῦθοι 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

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“The loon then flew with him toward its nest, and finally brought him to it, on a large cliff. After they had reached this, it began to fly again, and took him to a pond.??? The loon then dived with him, in order to make him recover his eyesight. It would dive and ask him whether he was smothering; when he answered that he was, it took him above the surface to regain his breath. Thus they dived, until the blind boy could see again.”

— Tales of the North American Indians, Tale 74 · served from our shelf  receiptuncorrected OCR — being verified against the scan

Attested across traditions
Scholars’ trail — 3references

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.

  • CheremisSebeok-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 eyeBuzzard steals coyote's eyes, while he is throwing them up in the airBlind beggar overheard telling that his money is kept in a stick. Thief exchanges sticksTheft by blinding with pepper
Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes
Basilisk. A mythical lizard or serpent whose hissing drives away all other serpentsWater of Life. Resuscitation by waterWater of life and death. One water kills, the other restores to life

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