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- One-eyed god. Odin. A128.2
- Islands from cow and calf transformed by evil eye of one-eyed god. A955.5
- End of world heralded by coming of Antichrist, a gigantic destructive one-eyed monster. A1075
- Why there are one-eyed women. A1316.3.2
- One-eyed pig. B15.4.5
- Dog-headed people. Peasants persecuted by one-eyed and dog-headed savages. B25.1.2
- One-eyed sow in wild hunt. E501.4.3.1
- Water-spirit as one-eyed fish. (Cf. F420.1.1.5.) F420.1.3.2.1
- Tribe of one-eyed, one-footed, one-handed men. F525.3
- One-eyed barber sees thread of silk stretching to sea. F642.6
- One-eyed giant (ogre). G121.1.1
- One-eyed witch. G213.1
- One-eyed demon. G369.7
- One-eyed giant (ogre) blinded (and killed) by arrow. G511.1
- Wisdom from god as old (one-eyed) man. J151.3
- Why captain takes lame and one-eyed soldiers into army. The lame cannot flee from the enemy; the one-eyed soldiers will not see enough to make them afraid. J1494
- To return the eye to the one-eyed man. "Let me have your other so that I can see whether the one I bring you matches." J1512.2
- Deduction: the one-eyed camel. A she-camel has passed, blind in one eye; on the one side she carries wine and on the other vinegar; two men lead her, one a heathen and the other a Jew. Solution: She is recognized as a she-camel by the footprints; she is blind because she feeds on only one side of the road; the wine dropping down has soaked into the earth; the vinegar makes bubbles; the heathen is not so careful in his manners as is the Jew. J1661.1.1
- Deduction: one-eyed, long-bearded thief is named Kale Khan. J1661.1.8
- One-eyed king has rocks counted on pain of death. Clever man avoids saying "one" (which king considers a curse on his one eye) by saying that first is the rock that must not be called by name. J1675.4