Nearsighted knight mistakes own servant for one of the enemy. Runs lance into his posterior — Mythoi

Motif

Nearsighted knight mistakes own servant for one of the enemy. Runs lance into his posterior.

Humor. · Humor of disability. · Humor of bad eyesight. · view the constellation · filed as X124

Filed across the traditions

Italian Novella Rotunda.

Within the index

Filed under Humor of bad eyesight.

2 finer motifs beneath it

Blind man strikes woman thinking she is buffalo Blind son-in-law visits his wife's family: gets into difficulties

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." 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 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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