False remedy for toothache — Mythoi

Motif

False remedy for toothache.

Deceptions. · Deception into self-injury. · Deception through false doctoring. · view the constellation · filed as K1015

Within the index

Filed under Deception through false doctoring.

2 finer motifs beneath it

Biting on stone given as remedy for toothache. Teeth injured Leopard wants teeth filed: large stone dropped from tree knocks all leopard's teeth out

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

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