The wife who saw double. Sees two plates where there are one, etc. Thinks two men are with her. Husband: "See everything double except your husband." — Mythoi

Motif

The wife who saw double. Sees two plates where there are one, etc. Thinks two men are with her. Husband: "See everything double except your husband."

Humor. · Humor of disability. · Humor of bad eyesight. · view the constellation · filed as X121

Cited in the index

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 no Nearsighted knight mistakes own servant for one of the enemy. Runs lance into his posterior Blind men trying to kill pigs with clubs strike one another. (Cf. K1081.) Blind man in awkward position pretends to see

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