其中一个最具争议性的剽窃指控涉及聋盲作家海伦·凯勒（Helen Keller），她11岁时被指控其“Frost Fairies”的故事是剽窃玛格丽特·坎比（Margaret Canby）的“King Frost”。下面，我们将给出两个故事之间的并行关系的一些示例（C代表坎比；K代表凯勒）。

摘录5－16

C:One day King Frost was trying to think of some good that he could do with his treasure.

K:One day King Frost was surveying his vast wealth and thinking what good he could do with it.

C:Suddenly he concluded to send some of it to his kind neighbour，Santa Claus.

K:He suddenly bethought him of his jolly old neighbour，Santa Claus.

C:So he called together his merry little fairies.

K:So he called together the merry little fairies of his household Excerpt 5.16.

C:One day King Frost was trying to think of some good that he could do with his treasure.

K:One day King Frost was surveying his vast wealth and thinking what good he could do with it.

C:Suddenly he concluded to send some of it to his kind neighbour，Santa Claus.

K:He suddenly bethought him of his jolly old neighbour，Santa Claus.(www.daowen.com)

C:So he called together his merry little fairies.

K:So he called together the merry little fairies of his household.

C：有一天，国王弗罗斯特试图思考他可以用他的财富来做些什么好事。

K：有一天，国王弗罗斯特在测量他巨大的财富的时候，思考到底可以用这些财富来做什么好事。

C：突然，他想到他应该给他善良的邻居，圣诞老人，送去一些财富。

K：他突然想到了他的喜悦的邻居，圣诞老人。

C：所以他召集了他的快乐的小仙女。

K：因此他召集了他家里的快乐的小仙女。

海伦·凯勒可以读这个故事的唯一方法是这个故事已经用布莱叶盲文发布，但是却并没有。一个家庭朋友认为她几年前（还是孩子的时候）可能有人念给她听过这个故事，但海伦·凯勒没有印象。

瑞士心理学家荣格（C.G.Jung）提出了一种被称为“隐秘症”（“cryptomnesia”）的记忆过程。在这种记忆过程中，个体相信他们使用的短语是他们自己的语言，而事实上这些短语却源于别人。（Bishop 1999：84）根据佩蒂纳蒂的观点，这种情况意味着，记住某事的经历可以与所记住的事物相分离或被切断。换句话说就是在记忆的东西和记忆这种经历之间需要做一个重要区分。（Pettinati 1988：5）在海伦·凯勒的例子中，很可能发生了这样的情况。她自己一直否认剽窃，之后由于这样的经历拒绝再写小说。拉兹、斯特里姆、蓬达克、奥洛夫和左哈里（Raz et al.2007）注意到盲人超强的记忆能力主要是基于感觉补偿因素。