K64C. The Cyclops is blinded by the blacksmith. .28.31.

The man who gouges out or burns out the only (sighted) eye of the Cyclops is a blacksmith.

Russians (Arkhangelsk {Pinega, Mezen}, Tula, Voronezh), Belarusians, Ukrainians (Cherkasy, northern Kyiv), Livs.

Central Europe. Russian : Nikiforov 1961, #75 (Arkhangelskaya, Pinezhsky district, Poganets village, 1927) [A blacksmith spends the night on the stove in an empty house; a one-eyed housewife comes in and brings a flock of rams. He threatens to eat the blacksmith; in the morning he promises to "boil" her eye (apparently, he is talking about the sick, blind eye?); he heats up an iron hammer and burns out the healthy eye. She wants to take revenge on him when she throws the rams out of the house one by one; the blacksmith turns his fur coat inside out, puts it on, and she throws him out too], 92 (Mezen, Vozhgory, 1928, K.A. Leshukova, 13 years old) [Ivan gets lost in the forest (he went mushroom picking), goes into a hut, lies down on the stove. There are rams in the hut. The mistress Baba Yaga appears, senses the Russian spirit, Ivan says that he is forging. She asks to tie her eye ("crooked with one eye"). He ties her up, gouges out his good eye. She gets angry, does not let him out. He puts her fur coat on inside out, goes out with the rams, which she lets out, she grabs the wool and throws it out into the street. Then she looks for him in the hut, cannot find him, guesses how he escaped]: 174, 221-222; Russian (Tula) [three brothers: a blacksmith, a carpenter, a tailor; the customers talk about need, the brothers go to look for Need; the old man takes a ruble from each, shows the way; a huge one-eyed old man Need comes towards him; he asks the tailor to sew a frock coat; it came out a little wrinkled on the chest, Need ate the tailor; the carpenter made a wardrobe - he didn’t like it either, he ate the carpenter; he asks the blacksmith to tie his eye; he orders - let Need chain himself to two posts; poured tin into his healthy eye; Need tore out the posts, looking for a blacksmith; he clung to a bull under the belly, pushed him so that he would run into Need, Need threw him over the fence; hearing the blacksmith's voice from behind the fence, he threw the end of the chain and a golden axe there; the blacksmith touched the chain with his finger, the finger stuck, he cut it off with a knife; since then all blacksmiths began to know Need, but tailors and carpenters still do not know]: Smirnov 1917, No. 217: 95-97; Russians (Voronezh, earlier 1860, Nizhnedevitsky district, reprinted by Afanasyev) [a prosperous blacksmith gets drunk and goes with a tailor to look for evil (they live well, they do not know evil). By nightfall they approach a hut, stop to spend the night. The hut is empty, then a "skinny, one-eyed, one-eyed" woman appears, throws the tailor into the oven and eats him. The blacksmith gets scared, says he can forge. She asks to forge her second eye. The blacksmith says she needs to be tied up to forge the eye. She brings two ropes, he throws away the thin one, ties her with a thick one, and gouges out the only eye with a hot awl. The old woman gets angry, lets the sheep spend the night in the hut. The blacksmith turns the fur coat inside out and in the morning crawls out of the hut with the sheep, the blind old woman checks to make sure the blacksmith hasn't come out, runs her hand over the sheep's backs and doesn't notice the blacksmith coming out in the fur coat. He says goodbye to Likho, but the old woman replies that he hasn't left yet; she shouts, Goodbye, Likho; sees a small hatchet with a golden handle in a tree, grabs it with his hand, it sticks; Likho approaches, the blacksmith cuts off his hand; returns home; tells everyone his story and shows his hand]: Tonkov 1949, no. 3: 157-158 (= Afanasyev 1985 (2), no. 302: 340-341); Belarusians (Klimovitsky district) [a rich man's daughter gave birth without a husband, threw the baby into the snow in the forest and ripped open his belly; everything healed, the snow around melted, the berries blossomed, the merchant Ivan Ivanovich picked up the boy; the priest takes it, looks at the Gospel, and for an hour and a half the baby does not have any name except Wild Storm; he grows by leaps and bounds; the tsar called him, he became the head of the Synod, the tsar gave him his daughter in marriage; In the far far away kingdom the king died, after him there remained a crutch, a funeral service and a crown; the king sent DB for them; he arrived at the old woman's house, they began to celebrate, lured the queen out, got her drunk, took the crown, etc., and set off back; they stopped halfway; when DB woke up, there was no one around; there was a woman in the house: you stole my sister's crown, etc., do you think you will leave me too? but DB promised to serve her and a year later they had a girl, then a son; DB taught his wife to go to church; when she went alone, he got on a ship and sailed; she tore the girl apart, threw half into the ship, it began to sink; DM threw half the child into the water, the ship floated up; having swum to the shore, he went into a huge house; there was Grandfather Shkuropet with one eye; he left his nieces, but you can't leave me; DM promises to cure the eye; tied up One-Eye, poured resin into his eye; clung to the goat's skin; One-Eye asks his cattle where DM is; the goat answers, but One-Eye cannot understand; the goat butted him, and he threw the goat together with DB over the fence; One-Eye threw the axe, it went into the pine tree; DM touched him with his little finger - stuck; cut off his little finger; the lion fights the snake, DB helped the lion; the snake, dying: I would have delivered you back to Grandfather Skin; the lion brought DB home, but forbade him to talk about it; but in his joy DB drank and let it slip; to the lion: it was not me, but the hops; the lion asked to show; got drunk, DB tied him up; they said goodbye; all is well]: Romanov 1887, No. 28: 205-211; Belarusians(Minskaya, Igumensky district, Mikulichi village) [a blacksmith has three sons: a shoemaker, a tailor and a smith; they went to look for grief; in the tavern people complain about life, but the brothers do not see grief here: they all have property; on the way they were attacked by robbers, the brothers fought them off; they entered a hut in the forest; a sheep was roasting in the oven, and three more under the table; a one-eyed giant came, looked; leaving, he blocked the door with a stone; it was Grief; he returned, asked about professions; he did not need a shoemaker and a tailor, he threw it in the oven to roast; and asked the blacksmith to make him a new eye; he asked for ropes to tie the patient, otherwise he might twitch; gouged out the seeing eye; he sat in the doorway so that the blacksmith would not come out; the blacksmith threw him a sheep; a second one; he jumped himself, turning the sheepskin inside out; the giant took him for a sheep and also threw him out into the street; he cries: thank you! giant: go, you will see an axe with a golden blade, a silver butt; the blacksmith took hold of the handle, stuck; cut off his hand with a knife and ran away]: Shane 1897, No. 71: 151-154; (cf. Ukrainians (Pokuttya) [a young man went to look for work; meets and takes a tailor and a blacksmith as companions; there is a house in the forest, in it an old woman with one horn and one eye; the woman: one for breakfast, another for lunch, a third for dinner; the blacksmith promises to attach a second horn to the woman, and the tailor promises to unstitch her blind eye; he sewed up the seeing one; the woman closed the door; there are sheep in the hut; the young men skinned three of them, put on the skins; the woman threw the sheep through the window, and the young men with them; she ran until she cracked; the woman had a prince in captivity, the king rewarded the young men]: Zinchuk 2005b, No. 74: 415-417); Ukrainians (Cherkasskaya, Chigirin) [a rich man went to look for grief; he came to the dog-headed people; they have one eye on the right side, and one horn on the left; [he went into a hut, there were five people sitting there; they promised not to eat the man if he was a blacksmith, tailor or carpenter; the man replied that he could cast an eye; he made an eye out of resin; the dog-headed man thought that this eye was better than his own; he agreed to let the man tie him up, tear out the old eye and put in a new one; having blinded the dog-headed man, the man hid among the sheep, slaughtered a goat, put on its skin, made his way out between the dog-headed man's legs, and got home]: Grinchenko 1897: 2-4 (= Bulashev 1909: 210-212); Ukrainians (Kievskaya, north, Rodomyslsky u.) [the blacksmith went to look for trouble; he came to the hut of a one-eyed cannibal; she did not eat him right away - he was skinny; she slaughtered a ram to feed him; agreed to let the blacksmith make her a second eye, and he knocked out the one she had with a chisel; the woman is standing at the gate, feeling the rams; the blacksmith put on a sheepskin coat, the woman let him pass; he called out to her; she threw a silver axe, it stuck in a tree; the blacksmith grabbed it and stuck; cut off his hand and ran away]: Chubinsky 1878: 85-86 (= Bulashev 1909: 212-214).

Baldtuscandia. Livs [a blacksmith was told that a demon also lived in the world; the blacksmith went to look for him, spent the night in a forest house; during the night a one-eyed housewife came, promised to eat the blacksmith in the morning; the blacksmith offered to make her a second eye, ordered her to bring an iron rod and ropes; she brought a thin and a thick one; he tied the woman with the thin one, she immediately tore it; then with the thick one; blinded her with a red-hot rod; in the morning the housewife began to release rams, feeling the back of each one; the blacksmith put on a fur coat with the fur outside, went out in the guise of a ram, said that he did not want to see the demon anymore]: Setälä in Kippar 2002: 65-67 (retold in Loorits 2000(4): 83).