Urine diagnosis to tell where a man comes from. A farmer takes some of his master's urine for examination. The doctor asks where the man comes from. "You will soon see," says the man, expecting the analysis to tell. (Cf. K2321.1.) — Mythoi

Motif

Urine diagnosis to tell where a man comes from. A farmer takes some of his master's urine for examination. The doctor asks where the man comes from. "You will soon see," says the man, expecting the analysis to tell. (Cf. K2321.1.)

The wise and the foolish. · Fools (and other unwise persons). · Absurd ignorance. · Absurd ignorance. · view the constellation · filed as J1734.1

Cited in the index

general *Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 857
general Christensen DF L 72
general ibid. DF XLVII 202f. Nos. 42, 47.

Within the index

Filed under Layman's ignorance of medicine.

Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)

Parson made to believe that he will bear a calf. In having his urine examined by a doctor, a cow's is substituted by mistake. (Or he dreams that he has borne a calf.) When a calf comes into the house he thinks that he has borne it. (Cf. J1734.1, K1955.2.) Man who killed mother uses her corpse to get presents

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