μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Man undertakes to cure fat abbot of stomach ailment. Starves him until he admits he can eat anything.

Deceptions. · Deception through shams. · Impostures. · Sham prowess. · view the constellation · filed as K1955.1.1

Filed across the traditions
  • Italian Novella Rotunda.
Within the index

Filed under Sham physician cures people by threatening them with death.

Filed beside it
Patients frightened from hospital by harsh treatment
Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)
Two monks renew their appetites. Entertained by a lord, they say that they are going to certain waters to recover their appetites. They are taken to a chamber and locked in for a day They recover their appetites without further journeying. (Cf. K1955.1.1.)

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