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 — Mythoi

Motif

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.

Humor. · Humor of disability. · Humor of bad eyesight. · view the constellation · filed as X123

Filed across the traditions

Spanish Boggs FFC XC 140 No. 1699.

Within the index

Filed under Humor of bad eyesight.

1 finer motif beneath it

Blind man reaches his home hanging on ox's tail (or in other ridiculous situation)

Filed beside it

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." 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." 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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