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- Magic object affects eyesight. D1331
- When spying follower accidentally touches holy man's cloak he loses his eyesight and falls down senseless. (Cf. D1053.) D1410.8
- Prince regains his eyesight after theft of eyes from water maidens. E781.1.1
- The servant to improve on the master's statements. The wooer makes boasts to the girl and the servant always doubles the master's boast. Finally the master says, "I have poor eyesight." – The servant, "You don't see at all." (Or the master coughs and apologizes; the servant says that he coughs all night.) J2464
- Eye-remedy. Under pretence of curing eyesight the trickster blinds the dupe. (Often with a glowing mass thrust into the eye.) K1011
- Ingeniously worded boon asked of God combines riches, issue, and restoration of eyesight: "Oh God! I want to see from above the seventh story of my mansion my great-grandsons playing in the streets and eating their cakes from golden vessels." K2371.3
- Youngest wife's son restores eyesight to blinded six wives of raja and reinstates his mother. L13.1
- Hummingbird can see fowler's net; eagle is caught in spite of his boasts of good eyesight. L333
- Humor of bad eyesight. X120