Blind men trying to kill pigs with clubs strike one another. (Cf. K1081.) — Mythoi

Motif

Blind men trying to kill pigs with clubs strike one another. (Cf. K1081.)

Humor. · Humor of disability. · Humor of bad eyesight. · view the constellation · filed as X125

Cited in the index

general Herbert III 71, 133, 572.

Within the index

Filed under Humor of bad eyesight.

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 Nearsighted knight mistakes own servant for one of the enemy. Runs lance into his posterior Blind man in awkward position pretends to see

Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)

Blind men duped into fighting

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