Feeling pulse: doctor severs arteries instead — Mythoi

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Feeling pulse: doctor severs arteries instead.

Deceptions. · Deception into self-injury. · Deception through false doctoring. · view the constellation · filed as K1017

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India Thompson-Balys.

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Filed under Deception through false doctoring.

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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 Beetles and barley introduced into wounds on pretence of healing them Hare flatters other animals into letting it bite off their ears

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