Pepper given as ointment for burns. (Cf. K1045.) — Mythoi

Motif

Pepper given as ointment for burns. (Cf. K1045.)

Deceptions. · Deception into self-injury. · Deception through false doctoring. · view the constellation · filed as K1014

Filed across the traditions

Japanese Ikeda
American Negro (Georgia) Harris Friends 69ff. No. 9.

Within the index

Filed under Deception through false doctoring.

2 finer motifs beneath it

Pepper up noses as remedy Pepper rubbed on injured skin

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

Dupe persuaded to oversalt (overpepper) food

ask the rhapsode about this motif · search the shelf for “ointment” · wander