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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 himFalse beauty-doctor. The trickster pretends to make the dupe beautiful. Injures himPepper given as ointment for burns. (Cf. K1045.)False remedy for toothacheBeetles and barley introduced into wounds on pretence of healing themHare flatters other animals into letting it bite off their ears

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