Seduction by posing as doctor — Mythoi

Motif

Seduction by posing as doctor.

Deceptions. · Seduction or deceptive marriage. · Seduction by disguise or substitution. · view the constellation · filed as K1315.2

Filed across the traditions

Icelandic Herrmann Saxo II 239, Boberg
Italian Novella Rotunda
N. Am. Indian *Thompson Tales 305 n. 109r.

Within the index

Filed under Seduction by impostor.

4 finer motifs beneath it

Girl persuaded to sit on certain plant: seduced. Man as sham doctor tells her how to heal her burnt groins Seduction by sham process of retrieving lost gem Seduction by sham process of repairing vagina Seduction by pretending to give childless man's wife medicine. When husband comes at cockcrow as he was told, trickster says he came too late and they must do it again

Filed beside it

Seduction by posing as a god. (Cf. K1301.) Seduction by posing as magician. (Sham incantation, etc.) Seduction by posing as a relative Seduction by posing as nobleman Seduction by posing as holy man (churchman) Seduction by posing as teacher or instructor Seduction upon false promise of marriage Seduction by offering protection against non-existing danger Seduction by posing as beggar Seduction by posing as leper Seduction by posing as merchant Seduction by masking as soldier Seduction: weaver posing as king

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