μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 5references

The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our shelf are live links; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.

  • Italian NovellaRotunda.
  • 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
Within the index

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 anythingPatients frightened from hospital by harsh treatment
Filed beside it
Sham physician pretends to diagnose entirely from urinalysis. Really from observation and inference from triflesSham 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 doctorSham physician: using the flea powder. Catch the flea, open its mouth, and place the powder insideSham 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 grownThe sham physician and the devil in partnership. The devil is to enter the girl and the physician will collect reward for driving the devil outSham physician refuses to take his own medicine: unmaskedSham physician gives relative a medical degreeIgnorant doctor draws his prescriptions by lot
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