The constellation
K1955 Sham physician
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filed under
- Sham prowess · K1950 entry
beneath it
- Sham physician cures people by threatening them with death · K1955.1 entry
- Sham physician pretends to diagnose entirely from urinalysis. Really from observation and inference from trifles · K1955.2 entry
- Sham physician predicts the sex of the unborn child. "From one side it looks like a boy, from the other a girl." The woman bears twins and the husband pays the doctor · K1955.3 entry
- Sham physician: using the flea powder. Catch the flea, open its mouth, and place the powder inside · K1955.4 entry
- Sham physician: making the girl grow up. A king wants his daughter to grow up quickly. The physician says that he must send away for the medicine; meantime she must be shut up. After several years they show her to the king. She has grown · K1955.5 entry
- The sham physician and the devil in partnership. The devil is to enter the girl and the physician will collect reward for driving the devil out · K1955.6 entry
- Sham physician refuses to take his own medicine: unmasked · K1955.7 entry
- Sham physician gives relative a medical degree · K1955.8 entry
- Ignorant doctor draws his prescriptions by lot · K1955.9 entry
keeps company
- Captor's bag filled with animals or objects while captives escape · K526 entry
- Fugitive discovered by reflection in water · R351 entry
- Shepherdess born of red and blue egg · T542.1 entry
- Person comes to life · E1 entry
- Person falls into ogre's power · G400 entry
- Ogre carries victim in bag (basket) · G441 entry
- Bodies of victims in front of ogre's house · G691 entry
- Mask mistaken for face · J1793 entry
- Statue mistaken for living original. (Cf. K1840.) · J1794 entry
- Contest won by magic · K1 entry
carried in tale type
- The Horse Kicks the Wolf in the Teeth · ATU 47B
- Anecdotes about Doctors (Physicians) · ATU 1862
attested in
- Tales of the North American Indians · Tale 71