μῦθοι Mythoi
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Scholars’ trail — 4references

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.

  • general *Chauvin VIII 106 No. 81
  • general Pierre Faifeu No. 20
  • general Nouvelles Récréations No. 59
  • general Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles Nos. 20, 21.
Within the index

Filed under Sham physician.

1 finer motif beneath it
Pepper as universal remedy of sham doctor: accidentally works
Filed beside it
Sham physician cures people by threatening them with deathSham 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
Travels with
Parson made to believe that he will bear a calf. In having his urine examined by a doctor, a cow's is substituted by mistake. (Or he dreams that he has borne a calf.) When a calf comes into the house he thinks that he has borne it. (Cf. J1734.1, K1955.2.)
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