Gnu -- I stuck it in this section to be on the safe side; I imagine I'll be writing more about the political and social prejudices the stories reveal about their cultures of origin, and the continuing impact they have today than actually tracing motifs or themes the way a folklorist or ethnologist would.

Jack Campin -- Yes, indeed, shamans (and their counterparts in other cultures) are often disabled. There's also blind Homer,* and one of the women put forth as "The Real Mother Goose" is said, according to legend, to have gotten the nickname because of a deformed foot that looked like a goose's foot.

Maeve -- Thank you! I look forward to writing more. Right now, I'm trying to decide which of several ideas should I have for my second entry.

Eliza -- maybe in the future. I'm going to start out with folktales, the first ones that came to mind are:

(start list)

• Hans my Hedgehog (parental response to a deformed baby)
  
• Bearskin (allegory for PTSD)
  
• The boy who left home to get the shivers (Asperger's)
  
• One Eye, Two Eyes, Three Eyes
  
• The Goose Girl at the Spring (for the elderly witch who looks after her)
  
• Rapunsel (the long version of the story has the prince blinded)
  
• The Girl without Hands
  
• Tom Thumb (when you're an adult who's two inches tall, there's going to be accessibility issues)
  
• The Two Travelers (blindness)
  
• The Hunchback and the Fairies
  
• Seven who Made their Way in the World (Seven traveling companions, each of whom is a physical "freak" in some way)

(end list)

The Dwarves in Snow White (In the original stories, their number varies) are actually supernatural beings -- Earth spirits, after which the human condition of dwarfism is named. But I will probably retell the Romance of Aesop who was said to be dwarfish. And I may write a bit about vampire legends from certain parts of Eastern Europe, that describe what a child born from a human/vampire union is like.

And then, there are the gods of mythology -- Hephaestos, the lame, Odin, with one eye, Tyr with one hand, et alia.
*(I thought about naming my blog "Plato's Nightmare / Homer's Dream," But Aesop is more associated with folktales, and is more likely to let folks interested in folklore find this blog than, say, high school student doing research for their Odessey report...