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Motif

Person pretends sickness can be cured only with death (humiliation) of another.

Deceptions. · Deception through shams. · Impostures. · Treacherous impostors. · view the constellation · filed as K1945.1

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Filed under Imposition by sham sickness.

1 finer motif beneath it
Mother-in-law's head is shaven, face blackened and she is led around city on ass-back as only cure for malady of daughter-in-law

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