Hare flatters other animals into letting it bite off their ears

Motif

Hare flatters other animals into letting it bite off their ears.

Deceptions. · Deception into self-injury. · Deception through false doctoring. · view the constellation · filed as K1018

ask the rhapsode about this motif →

Scholars’ trail — 1reference

The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our shelf are live links; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.

IndiaThompson-Balys.

Within the index

Filed under Deception through false doctoring.

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.)False remedy for toothache Beetles and barley introduced into wounds on pretence of healing them Feeling pulse: doctor severs arteries instead

wander