M81 — Blind people

Wandering, the hero finds himself in a place where blind or blind (two or more) live.

Berezkin category: Adventures: Tricks and episodes

This is of motif type Adventures and tricks and is part of group 10, Adventures.

M81.  Wandering, the hero finds himself in a place where blind or blind (two or more) live.
M81a.  The hero meets two blind women and makes them sighted. These women are birds (geese, ducks, hazel grouses, partridges).
M81b.  The character is warned not to try to reach an arrow if it gets stuck in a tree. He breaks the ban and gets into trouble.
M81c.  A person goes to heaven or (rarely) to the lower world, where he meets blind people (one or two), usually makes them sighted, and returns to earth himself.
M81d.  A person meets (most often in the sky) one or two blind people and restores their sight.
M81e.  young man undertakes to herd cattle and is warned not to cross the borders of a giant, dragon, witch, etc. The young man violates the ban and kills a giant.
M81e1.  A young man lives with an old man whose eyes or eyes were carried away by a giant. The young man goes to the giant, kills him, brings his eyes, the old man sees the light.
M81e2.  By playing an instrument or otherwise, a character is able to attract an animal or person far away from him.
M81f.  blind beggar robs an honest man. He watches him and, when he enters the house, takes everything the blind man has accumulated. He often takes money accumulated by other blind people as well.

This motif has been recorded in 102 traditions: Arabs of Iraq, Iraqi, Tiv, Bamum (Bamun), Mungaka (Mgaka, Bali), Beba, Anaguta, Bete (Mbete, Karang), Ekoi, Nyang, Vute (Wute), Jukun, Chamba, Bamileke, Kwotto, Kirri; Denya (Nyang), Ewe, Torricelli family: Valman, Samap, Arapesh (Upper, Coastal), Monumbo, Lilau, Ngaimbom; Moando (Banara); Menya, Olo, Central Vanuatu: Espiritu Santo, Araki, Aore, Maewo, Malekula, Vao, Efate (Vate), Nguna, Mae, Ambrim, Pentecost, Oba (=Aoba, East Ambae, Lepers'), Omba, Samoa, Rotuma, Niue, Maori, Moriori (Chatam Islands), Society Islands: Tahiti, Borabora, Raiatea, Southern Cook Islands: Mangaia, Rarotonga, Atiu, Iatutakim Pukapuka, Tubuai (=Austral Islands, incl Rapa), Marquesas, Hawaii, Gilbert Islands, Nauru, Banaba (Ocean island), Kapingamarangi, Nukuoro, Ontong Java, Nukumanu, Takuu, Nukuria, Ulithi, Ngulu, Batak (Toba, Dairi), Central islands and Bikol: Vizaya, Mansaká, Bikol, Mangyan, Panayan, Sulod, Cebuano (Cebu), Capiz, Romblomanon, Manuyu, Central Taiwan: Bunun (Vonum), La'arua, Tsou, Kanabu, Kanakanabu, Punjabi, Seraiki (Multani), Koreans, Spain, Spaniards, Catalan, Dutch, Flemish, Germans: North (Low- and Central German dialects): Schleswig-Holstein, Mecklenburg, Pommern, Niedersachsen (Lower Saxony, incl East Frisia and Oldenburg), Nordrhein-Westfalen, Hessen, Rheinland-Pfalz, Thüringen, Saxony-Anhalt, Sachsen, Brandenburg, Rügen, Poles, Hungarians, Greeks (modern), Balkarians, Bulgarians, Balkarians, Lithuanians, Latvians, Finns, Western Ukrainians, Byelarusians, Belarusians, Baluch, Svans, Armenians, Komi (Zyrians and Permyaks), Mansi, Eastern Khanty (Ostyaks), Mongols (Khalkha), Khakas, Southern Altai: Altai proper (Altai-Kiji), Telengit, Altaians, Northern Altai: Chelkan, Kumanda, Tubalar, Altaians, Nenets, Southern Selkups, Northern Selkups, Chukchi, Dogrib, Slavey, Inland Tlingit, Koyukon, Tlingit, Haida, Tsimshian, Heiltsuk (Bellabella), Oowekeeno, Kwakiutl (Kwakwaka'wakw), Nootka (Nu-chah-nulth), Makah, Bella Coola (Nuxalk), Western Ojibwa (Chippewa), Eastern Ojibwa (Missisauga, Timagami and other groups in eastern Ontario), Northern Ojibwa (=Severn Ojibwa, Sandy Lake Cree), Eastern Cree, Menominee, Sauk (Sak, Mesquakie), Fox, Kickapoo, Potawatomi, Five Nations Iroquois (Seneca, Mohawk, Onondaga, Oneida, Cayuga), Arikara, Pawnee, Plains Cree, Plains Ojibwa, Hidatsa, Shuswap, Thompson (Nlaka'pamux), Lillooet, Comox, Pentlatch, Sechelt (incl Sisiatl), Squamish, Halcomelem, Tillamook, Takelma, Oregon Athabaskans: Lower Umpqua, Tututni (incl Joshua), Upper Coquille, Galice, Tolowa, Karok, Klamath, Modoc, Yurok, Northern Paiute (=Paviotso), Northern Shoshone, Western Shoshone, Gosiute, Eastern Shoshone, Ute, Jicarilla, Ticuna (Tucuna), Kechua-speaking communities of Apurimac, Cuzco, Arequipa, Puno departments; Spanish sources of XVI-XVII centuries; Callawaya (Kechua with Pukina substratum), Paresi, Makka, Nivakle (=Chulupi, Ashluslay, Ajlujlay), Toba (incl Pilagá), Eastern Ukrainians, Northern Ukrainians, Italians: Central (Toscana, Umbria, Marche, Lazio), Bhutan, Nauru, Japan, Russian Federation