Yu.E. Berezkin, E.N. Duvakin

Thematic classification and distribution of folklore and mythological motifs by area

Analytical catalogue

Introduction
Bibliography
Ethnicities and habitats

L81D. After competing, the cripples recovered.

.11.13.21.-.23.26.38.

After defeating the demon, two crippled people with different bodily disabilities quarrel and fight, and as a result become whole and healthy.

Tonga, Malgash, Toto, Chakma, Khmer, Marathi, Taunyo, Japanese (including North Ryukyu)

Bantu-speaking Africa. Tonga [humpback and blind picked up a porcupine stubble, a turtle, a gun; stopped at an old woman with whom two young women were; at night the lion eats those who came to the village; at night the lion looked into a hut, asks to show the hair of those who came (showed stubble), a piece of leather (they gave a turtle), to give a voice (they shot a lion in the ear with a gun); in the morning they began to quarrel about who would take the old woman and who would take two young women; the humpback lost his hump from the blows, and the blind man saw the light; both married young people]: Zhukov, Kotlyar 1986, No. 117:283-285.

Sudan - East Africa. Malgashi (sakalava) [parents leave their two sons, the Blind and the Lame, in the forest; the Lame carries the Blind Man; they find a coin, buy food; then they find a cow horn, a fan for the trend, a piece of iron; they come to the ogre Ndrimobe's house; show him a horn instead of a tooth, a fan instead of an ear, let him touch a hot iron; N. believes that the Blind is stronger than him, runs away; brothers share his treasures, come back home; The Lame gives the Blind only a third, he hits him with a stick, correcting his lameness; the Lame gives the Blind a crack, he sees the light]: Haring 1982, No. 3.2.327f: 383-384.

Tibet is the Northeast of India. Toto [the older brother is blind, the younger brother is chrome; to go, the elder put the youngest on the back; they spent the night with the blacksmith (they secretly took ticks), with the peasant (they took the drum), and the other a peasant (they took a pig); in the city, the king agreed to leave them overnight, warning that demons would come to this house at midnight; the demon tells them to go out; brothers: first let's find out who is stronger; the demon showed his louse, brothers a pig; when they reached it out, grabbed the demon with ticks, he cried out and ran away; the second demon came; hit yourself in the stomach; he hits, the brothers hit the drum; the demon ran away; the third came: who He will pinch harder; the brothers laid a log, grabbed the demon themselves with ticks; he also ran away; the king kept the brothers with him; one day the younger brother caught a fish and a snake; fried and ate the fish, and gave the snake to the elder brother; after biting a snake's head, he thought that the youngest had planned to poison him, kicked him in the leg, the lameness was gone; and the elder saw the light from the snake venom; the king gave his two daughters to the brothers]: Majumdar 1991, No. 21: 275-281.

Burma - Indochina. Chakma [the widow has two sons: humpback and blind in one eye; they decided to go to the forest; on the way they picked up a buffalo head, a rope, a vessel of lime; they came to the palace and asked if anyone was there; answer: I am a rakshasa; brothers: And we are Pakshas (super-rakshasa); the rakshas demanded proof; the brothers showed a buffalo head instead of lice, a rope instead of hair, and lime instead of spitting; the Rakshas was frightened, then killed; they took possession of his treasures and miraculously became princes without bodily defects; one married a princess and the other married a minister's daughter]: A, Sattar. Tribal Culture in Bangladesh. Dacca, 1975. P. 202-203 in Majumdar 1991:191-192; Khmers [blind and lame run away from their owners in a boat; rowing all night, sitting facing each other; in the morning, the owners see their boat ashore; lame puts a blind man on his own on their backs, they run away by land; they are told that a tiger tiger is rampant in the country; the blind man replies that they are not afraid of the tiger, much less afraid of the local tiger; the tiger hears and understands this way the way that a terrible Tiger is somewhere nearby; the blind and lame went into the barn and began to take the bulls out; a tiger also climbed there; a blind man mistakes the tiger for a bull, throws a rope through his nostrils the tiger runs away in horror; the blind and lame chase him in vain; the honey collector gives them manure instead of honey; the blind hears a knock, thinks it is a collector, but on a woodpecker tree; people are forced to give the Yakka princess ( cannibal giant); blind and lame come to the Yakka house; a yakk comes, demands that the visitor show his liver, heart, hair; the blind man throws the basket, the turtle, the ropes, the yakk runs away in horror; at night Yakka's wife enters, the blind man cuts off her head with a sword; sharing jewelry, friends fight; from blows the blind saw the light, the lame straightened up; the blind ex gets the princess and the kingdom, makes the former lame chief adviser]: Gorgoniev 1973:78-88.

South Asia. Marathi [blind and deaf live together; one is afraid of lightning, the other is thunder; they come to Rakshasa's houses while it is not there; Rakshas comes, the blind man is not afraid of him; says that he himself is bakshas, and bakshas is this is the father of Rakshasa; Rakshas asks to show his face, the blind man puts the donkey's face through the door; the torso rolls the laundress's cauldron on the floor; to give a voice - lets ants into the donkey's ears, he yells; the rakshas leaves, blind and the deaf load treasures on the donkey, go home; the Rakshasa brings six others, the blind and deaf climb the tree, the Rakshasa stand on top of each other to get them; the blind man falls, clings to his ears Upper Rakshasa, thinking it's a branch; all the Rakshasa falls; the deaf screams to hold tight; the Rakshasa run away; at home, the deaf tries to deceive the blind man by taking most of the treasure; both fight, from blows the blind saw the light, the deaf found hearing; they became friends]: Frere 1868, No. 18:228-237.

China - Korea. Taunyo [The Blind and the Hunchback began to live together; at night they lay under the tree with their feet to each other; the tiger thought this creature was about two heads; all the animals gathered, the hare talked about the monster, everything they ran away; the turtle remained, the Blind man took it with him; then the Hunchback hung a harrow around the Blind Man's neck; they came to the village, when they saw them, their people ran away in horror; the Hunchback hung the Blind Man around his neck drum; they came to the land of giant cannibals, said that they were nats (spirits); hitting the drum is a voice, they show the turtle is a louse, the harrow is a comb; the giants ran away, the hunchback gained gold and silver, they began to fight; from the blows the Blind saw the light, and the Hunchback straightened up]: Zapadova 1977:286-289; yi: Uther 2004 (2), No. 1152:51-52.

Japan. The Japanese (6 versions: Tohoku, West Honshu, Kyushu and North Ryukyu) [on the way, blind and deaf find a cauldron and a horse; stay in an empty house in the mountains; an ogre comes; the blind man replies that he is his uncle; the cannibal wants to feel his uncle's head, the blind and deaf slip the cauldron; in the morning, after taking the ogre's treasures, they ride a horse; other cannibals chase them, they climb a tree, cannibals stand alone on the other, the blind man accidentally grabs the upper one by the ears, the cannibals are frightened, run away; sharing treasures, the blind and the deaf got into a fight, hit each other's eyes and ears, one saw the light, the other began to hear, parted friends]: Ikeda 1971, No. 1152:228-229