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Motif

False beauty-doctor. The trickster pretends to make the dupe beautiful. Injures him.

Deceptions. · Deception into self-injury. · Deception through false doctoring. · view the constellation · filed as K1013

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“He ad- vised the children to run away, but they did not obey. When they saw the gum, they stepped up to the Snanaik and asked her to give them some. The Snanaik gave a piece of gum to all the children, and when she saw Anutkoats, who was advising the children to return home, she took him and threw him into the basket which she was carrying on her back. Then she took all the other children and threw them on top of him into her basket.”

— Tales of the North American Indians, Tale 71 · served from our shelf  receiptuncorrected OCR — being verified against the scan

Attested across traditions
Scholars’ trail — 7references

The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our shelf are live links; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.

  • India*Thompson-Balys
  • ChineseGraham
  • IndonesiaDeVries'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 ironTrickster to give wings to tiger. Wounds him fatallyFalse hair-restorer injures patientTrick: 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 himPepper given as ointment for burns. (Cf. K1045.)False remedy for toothacheBeetles and barley introduced into wounds on pretence of healing themFeeling pulse: doctor severs arteries insteadHare flatters other animals into letting it bite off their ears
Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes
Person comes to lifePerson falls into ogre's powerOgre carries victim in bag (basket)Bodies of victims in front of ogre's houseMask mistaken for faceStatue mistaken for living original. (Cf. K1840.)Contest won by magicCaptor's bag filled with animals or objects while captives escapeSham physicianFugitive discovered by reflection in waterShepherdess born of red and blue egg
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