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Motif

Remedy: covering with dry leaves. Victim burned up. (Cf. K1013.2.)

Deceptions. · Deception into self-injury. · Deception through false doctoring. · view the constellation · filed as K1010.1

Filed across the traditions
  • Africa (Wakweli) Bender 88f.
Within the index

Filed under Deception through false doctoring.

Filed beside it
Eye-remedy. Under pretence of curing eyesight the trickster blinds the dupe. (Often with a glowing mass thrust into the eye.) Making the dupe strong. The false doctor injures him False beauty-doctor. The trickster pretends to make the dupe beautiful. Injures him Pepper given as ointment for burns. (Cf. K1045.) False remedy for toothache Beetles and barley introduced into wounds on pretence of healing them Feeling pulse: doctor severs arteries instead Hare flatters other animals into letting it bite off their ears
Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)
"Painting" on the haycock. The fox persuades the wolf to lie on the hay in order to be painted. He sets fire to it

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