Sham physician pretends to diagnose entirely from urinalysis. Really from observation and inference from trifles — Mythoi

Motif

Sham physician pretends to diagnose entirely from urinalysis. Really from observation and inference from trifles.

Deceptions. · Deception through shams. · Impostures. · Sham prowess. · view the constellation · filed as K1955.2

Cited in the index

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

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Filed under Sham physician.

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Pepper as universal remedy of sham doctor: accidentally works

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Sham physician cures people by threatening them with death 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

Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)

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.)

Carried in tale types

Sham Physician Pretends to Diagnose Entirely from Urinanalysis · ATU 1641A 1 recorded variant

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