μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Filed across the traditions
  • India *Thompson-Balys
  • Chinese Graham
  • Indonesia DeVries's list Nos. 73, 74
  • Eskimo (Bering Strait) Nelson RBAE XVIII 467
  • N. Am. Indian *Thompson Tales 352 n. 271, (California): Gayton and Newman 83
  • Africa (Ekoi) Talbot 387, (Kaffir): Theal 99, (Wute): Sieber ZsES XII 69f., 172.
  • general *Cosquin Études 385ff.
Within the index

Filed under Deception through false doctoring.

6 finer motifs beneath it
Making the beard golden: "such a one". A man named "Such a one" persuades an ogre to have his beard gilded. He covers it with tar and leaves the ogre caught to the tar-kettle. The ogre with his tar-kettle wanders about and asks everyone, "Have you seen such a one?" "Painting" on the haycock. The fox persuades the wolf to lie on the hay in order to be painted. He sets fire to it "Painting" with a red hot iron Trickster to give wings to tiger. Wounds him fatally False hair-restorer injures patient Trick: breaking legs for prowess in dancing (or for swiftness)
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.) Making the dupe strong. The false doctor 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
Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes
Person comes to life Person falls into ogre's power Ogre carries victim in bag (basket) Bodies of victims in front of ogre's house Mask mistaken for face Statue mistaken for living original. (Cf. K1840.) Contest won by magic Captor's bag filled with animals or objects while captives escape Sham physician Fugitive discovered by reflection in water Shepherdess born of red and blue egg
Carried in tale types

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