J6B. Blinding the victim. (.45.62.67.72.)

The heroes' mother is not killed, but she is losing her sight.

Seneca, chikuna, chiriguano, caduveo.

Northeast. Seneca [the eldest of six brothers gets married; his wife blinds them all; Tornadoes kidnap their younger sister; an old woman wants to eat her, a tornado boy kills an old woman, marries a girl; her two sons- twins are found by blind uncles; one of the twins comes to women making a veil decorated with human eyes; turns into a duckling; one of the women goes to fetch water, wants to catch a duckling; that disappears, she is pregnant, gives birth to a boy; the baby cries, rejects everything offered to him; when everyone falls asleep, she carries away the blanket with the eyes that covered him with; restores sight to his uncles]: Curtin, Hewitt 1918, No. 18:75-81.

NW Amazon. Chikuna [the forest spirit feeds on people's eyes; eats away the eyes of a pregnant woman; a forest woman replaces a born boy with her daughter, raises him; another daughter of a forest woman tells him who his mother is; he steals medicine from his stepmother, pours her mother's eyes, she sees the light; out of anger, a forest woman pushes her daughters into a mortar; they turn into fish and crabs]: Nimuendaju 1952:144-145.

Bolivia - Guaporé. Chiriguano [at the festival, the Battleship digs a hole under a girl sitting on the ground, makes her pregnant; she comes to the Battleship's hole, leaves her baby in it; he is no longer picked up by her ; she is taken away and dazzled by the Double-Headed Jaguar; her father catches her son with a net; a young man hunts birds, one of them advises him to look for his mother better; he kills predators from the feline family one by one; The Two-Headed Jaguar is the last to leave the house; hides under the moon's apron, eats the moon; the Battleship's son makes his mother new eyes out of clay]: Nordenskiöld 1912:271-273.

Chaco. Caduveo [Seven Stars descends from heaven, marries, returns to heaven; his pregnant wife is kidnapped by two Jaguars, married, one eye is pulled out; Frog Man raises her son; he wants to kill a pigeon, a dove brings it to its mother; a young man kills both Jaguars]: Wilbert, Simoneau 1990a, No. 26:47.