μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 2references

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.

  • JapaneseIkeda
  • 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 remedyPepper 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 himFalse beauty-doctor. The trickster pretends to make the dupe beautiful. Injures himFalse 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
Travels with
Dupe persuaded to oversalt (overpepper) food

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