Making the dupe strong. The false doctor injures him — Mythoi

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Making the dupe strong. The false doctor injures him.

Deceptions. · Deception into self-injury. · Deception through false doctoring. · view the constellation · filed as K1012

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Filed under Deception through false doctoring.

2 finer motifs beneath it

Making the dupe strong – by castration Making the dupe strong – by scalding

Filed beside 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.)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