μῦθοι Mythoi
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Scholars’ trail — 1reference

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.

  • general Wesselski Hodscha Nasreddin II 186 No. 358.
Within the index

Filed under Humor of bad eyesight.

1 finer motif beneath it
The squint-eyed son and the bottle. Sent by his father to get the only bottle of rare wine, he sees two. Not wishing to show his father to be a liar, he breaks one – really the only one
Filed beside it
One-eyed man as appraiser of horse. Has appraised it at half a mark. "He saw only half a horse; otherwise he would have valued it at a mark."Blind man and the bull. Man asks bull if he is on the right road. Bull butts him and knocks him down. The man says that all that was not necessary, simply to say yes or noNearsighted knight mistakes own servant for one of the enemy. Runs lance into his posteriorBlind men trying to kill pigs with clubs strike one another. (Cf. K1081.)Blind man in awkward position pretends to see

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