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Motif

Sham physician cures people by threatening them with death.

Deceptions. · Deception through shams. · Impostures. · Sham prowess. · view the constellation · filed as K1955.1

Filed across the traditions
  • Italian Novella Rotunda.
  • general *Bédier Fabliaux 476
  • general *Basset 1001 Contes I 382
  • general *Crane Vitry 241 No. 254
  • general Bolte Zs. f. Vksk. XXVI 89 n. 1
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Filed under Sham physician.

2 finer motifs beneath it
Man undertakes to cure fat abbot of stomach ailment. Starves him until he admits he can eat anything Patients frightened from hospital by harsh treatment
Filed beside it
Sham physician pretends to diagnose entirely from urinalysis. Really from observation and inference from trifles Sham physician predicts the sex of the unborn child. "From one side it looks like a boy, from the other a girl." The woman bears twins and the husband pays the doctor Sham physician: using the flea powder. Catch the flea, open its mouth, and place the powder inside Sham physician: making the girl grow up. A king wants his daughter to grow up quickly. The physician says that he must send away for the medicine; meantime she must be shut up. After several years they show her to the king. She has grown The sham physician and the devil in partnership. The devil is to enter the girl and the physician will collect reward for driving the devil out Sham physician refuses to take his own medicine: unmasked Sham physician gives relative a medical degree Ignorant doctor draws his prescriptions by lot
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