Sick woman hung in well to cool off: drowned. Fool has cooled objects thus

Motif

Sick woman hung in well to cool off: drowned. Fool has cooled objects thus.

The wise and the foolish. · Fools (and other unwise persons). · Foolish imitation. · Types of foolish imitation. · view the constellation · filed as J2412.6

Filed across the traditions

India Thompson-Balys.

Within the index

Filed under Foolish imitation of healing.

Filed beside it

Hot onion to the eye. A friend has cured his foot with this remedy Pulling out the eye so that the pain will cease. He has had a tooth pulled and the pain ceased Imitation of the prescription. A peasant envying a doctor's fee for giving him a plaster and predicting a son, poses as a doctor. He predicts a son for a eunuch and gives a plaster for heart disease Imitation of diagnosis by observation: ass's flesh. A doctor tells his patient that he has eaten too much chicken, and this the patient confesses. The doctor's son wants to know how the diagnosis was made. The doctor says that as he rode up he observed chicken feathers and made his conclusions. The son imitates. He sees an ass's saddle. Diagnosis: you have eaten too much ass's flesh Healing with the cherry tree. A man whose wife refuses to talk remembers that a priest drank black cherry juice whenever he lost his voice. He cannot get the cordial but concluding that a limb of the cherry tree will have the same effect beats his wife with is. She is cured Foolish physician cauterizes "sick" cartwheel to stop it from creaking; burns it up instead Fool claims to cure goitre by striking. Has seen melon thus dislodged from camel's throat. (Cf. F952.3.1, F953.1.)

Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)

"Don't allow paint to wear off my daughter's feet." Bridegroom carries her upside down across river and drowns her. (Cf. J2412.6.)

Carried in tale types

Curing Fever by Dipping into Well · ATU 1349L* 1 recorded variant

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