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Filed under Deception through false doctoring.

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Biting on stone given as remedy for toothache. Teeth injuredLeopard wants teeth filed: large stone dropped from tree knocks all leopard's teeth out
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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 himPepper given as ointment for burns. (Cf. K1045.)Beetles 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

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