Poor girl masks as doctor and is made court physician — Mythoi

Motif

Poor girl masks as doctor and is made court physician.

Deceptions. · Deception through shams. · Deception by disguise or illusion. · Deception by disguise. · view the constellation · filed as K1825.1.2

Filed across the traditions

Spanish Boggs FFC XC 68 No. 515*.

Within the index

Filed under Disguise as doctor.

Filed beside it

Lover masks as doctor to reach sweetheart Trickster masks as doctor and punishes his cheaters Girl masks as doctor to find departed lover Animal disguised as doctor. (Cf. K1822.) Disguise as physician to poison enemies

Carried in tale types

A Young Woman Disguised as a Man is Wooed by the Queen (previously The Court Physician) · ATU 514** 1 recorded variant

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