Teaching Latin. Cuts off tip of pupil's tongue or orders him to lick cold iron – pupil injures himself.
Deceptions. · Deception into self-injury. · Dupe otherwise persuaded to voluntary self-injury. · view the constellation · filed as K1068.2
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.
- LithuanianBalys Index No. 2444*.
Carried in tale types
- Teaching Latin · ATU 1331D*1 recorded variant
- Cleverness and Gullibility · ATU 15391 recorded variant