Healed with his own medicine — Mythoi

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Healed with his own medicine.

The wise and the foolish. · Cleverness. · Clever practical retorts. · The cheater cheated. · view the constellation · filed as J1513

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ChineseMyths & Legends of China, Chapter VI
Hermetic / AlchemicalThrice-Greatest Hermes, Volume I: Prolegomena, Chapter XVI: The Disciples of Thrice-Greatest Hermes
North American IndigenousMyths of the Cherokee, Wonder Stories — Myth 6969. ATAGA'Hl, the enchanted lake
ReferenceThe Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (abridged), Chapter LXVLXV. Balder and the Mistletoe

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Filed under The cheater cheated.

1 finer motif beneath it

"If he does not live, let him die." The student as healer hangs this sign around the neck of a sick calf. Later as parson he is sick. It is proposed to heal him with the same remedy

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A rule must work both ways Impossible demand rebuked You lead and I will follow: hard command thus evaded Rogues exchange objects and cheat each other Thieves deceived by prearranged conversation which they overhear. (Cf. K420.)Swindler's plans foiled Rebuke to the stingy Poor girl outwits prince in fright-contest. He frightens her and later mocks her with her words of fright. She plays the same trick on him Soldier's practical retort to officer Dream answered by dream. Priests misinterpret raja's dream and get his horses. Trickster advises raja to announce dream demanding cauterization of the priests. They return horses