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Motif

Sham physician.

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

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“He ad- vised the children to run away, but they did not obey. When they saw the gum, they stepped up to the Snanaik and asked her to give them some. The Snanaik gave a piece of gum to all the children, and when she saw Anutkoats, who was advising the children to return home, she took him and threw him into the basket which she was carrying on her back. Then she took all the other children and threw them on top of him into her basket.”

— Tales of the North American Indians, Tale 71 · served from our shelf  receiptuncorrected OCR — being verified against the scan

Attested across traditions
In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
Scholars’ trail — 6references

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.

  • IndonesiaDeVries's list No. 126
  • N. Am. Indian*Thompson Tales 352 n. 271a
  • Cape Verde IslandsParsons MAFLS XV (1) 17.
  • general Chauvin II 93 No. 39
  • general BP III 369ff.
  • general Bødker Exempler 289 No. 42
Within the index

Filed under Sham prowess.

9 finer motifs beneath 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 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
Filed beside it
Sham warriorSham prince (nobleman)Sham brave manSham rich manSham wise manSham teacher. Pretends to read a document brought him as a letter. It is a tax receiptSham churchmanFalse prophetSham magicianSham astrologerSham crystal-gazerAlchemistJuggler promises to fly from one house to another. Keeps crowd waiting until dusk and then makes his escapeSham prowess in hunting (fishing)Sham prowess – miscellaneous
Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes
Person comes to lifePerson falls into ogre's powerOgre carries victim in bag (basket)Bodies of victims in front of ogre's houseMask mistaken for faceStatue mistaken for living original. (Cf. K1840.)Contest won by magicCaptor's bag filled with animals or objects while captives escapeFalse beauty-doctor. The trickster pretends to make the dupe beautiful. Injures himFugitive discovered by reflection in waterShepherdess born of red and blue egg
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