Beetles and barley introduced into wounds on pretence of healing them

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Beetles and barley introduced into wounds on pretence of healing them.

Deceptions. · Deception into self-injury. · Deception through false doctoring. · view the constellation · filed as K1016

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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 him False beauty-doctor. The trickster pretends to make the dupe beautiful. Injures him Pepper given as ointment for burns. (Cf. K1045.)False remedy for toothache Feeling pulse: doctor severs arteries instead Hare flatters other animals into letting it bite off their ears

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