Deception through false doctoring — Mythoi

Motif

Deception through false doctoring.

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

Filed across the traditions

Chinese Graham.
general Type 1136

Within the index

9 finer motifs beneath it

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

Carried in tale types

The Blinded Ogre · ATU 1137 2 recorded variants
Eye-Remedy · ATU 1135 1 recorded variant

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