23 motifs match “blinded”  ·  back to the chapters

• Helpful bird cares for blinded master. B536.1
• Blinded trickster directed by trees. He asks them their names and by their answers he can tell where he is. (Cf. D950.) D1313.4
• Blinded prince forces goddess to give him back his sight. F952.0.2
• Person imitates witch by putting ointment in eye: eye blinded. (Cf. F361.3.) G242.8
• Devil's pipe, gun or music. Man is blinded and gets such as gift or exchange from devil. G303.25.16.1
• Ogre blinded. G511
• One-eyed giant (ogre) blinded (and killed) by arrow. G511.1
• Test of sight: stepping stones. Captives re-blinded if they cross stepping-stones without stumbling. H1575.1
• Greedy man keeps demanding one more thing from complacent man; at last is magically blinded. J514.3
• Execution evaded by using three wishes. King ordains that guest who turns his plate shall be executed, but orders that anyone so condemned shall have three wishes granted. One of the wishes: to have all blinded who saw him turn the plate. He is freed. J1181.1
• Enemy blinded with chili powder and overpowered. K783.1
• Blinded slave's revenge. Threatens to jump from tower with lord's children unless lord blinds himself. Lord does so but slave jumps with children nevertheless. K1465
• Man blinded by throwing dust in his eyes: he is robbed. K2356.1
• Youngest wife's son restores eyesight to blinded six wives of raja and reinstates his mother. L13.1
• Eyes exchanged for food. A starving man lets himself be blinded in return for food. M225
• Inexorable fate: no day without sorrow. A king, who has made decree against sorrow on a certain day is blinded by a swallow in his sleep. N101.1
• Man captured by pirates is maimed, crippled, blinded. He is patient through it all. Finally he is elected ruler by his dead master's subjects. N251.1
• Man blinded trying to heal girl. Powders blow into his one good eye. N395
• Wicked son blinded. Q451.7.5
• Child born with one eye blinded as result of saint's curse. Q556.4.1
• Executioner miraculously blinded: condemned man saved. R176
• Artisan who has built palace blinded so he cannot build another like it. (Cf. S161.0.1, W181.2.) S165.7
• Abandoned queen blinded. S438