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Motif

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.

Deceptions. · Deception through shams. · Impostures. · Sham prowess. · view the constellation · filed as K1955.6

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Scholars’ trail — 3references

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.

  • SpanishBoggs FFC XC 51 No. 340*
  • India*Thompson-Balys
  • Cape Verde Islands*Parsons MAFLS XV (1) 193 n. 1.
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Filed under Sham physician.

1 finer motif beneath it
Cheat: demon kills people so his pupil can resuscitate them and get reward
Filed beside it
Sham physician cures people by threatening them with deathSham 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 grownSham physician refuses to take his own medicine: unmaskedSham physician gives relative a medical degreeIgnorant doctor draws his prescriptions by lot
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