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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