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Thread #137068   Message #3136905
Posted By: GUEST,Suibhne Astray
17-Apr-11 - 01:30 PM
Thread Name: BS: CapriUni's blog: disability in folktales
Subject: RE: BS: CapriUni's blog: disability in folktales
In the Welsh Gyspy story The Squirrel and the Fox collected by John Sampson (XXI Gyspy Folk Tales, 1933) there is an old woman without limbs. Whether she was born that way or was disabled in later life we are not told, just that she is seer of great wisdom.

I know a great one about a pig with a wooden leg...