Sham doctor kills his patients — Mythoi

Motif

Sham doctor kills his patients.

Deceptions. · Killing or maiming by deception. · Fatal deception into trickster's power. · view the constellation · filed as K824

Filed across the traditions

Spanish Exempla Keller
India Thompson-Balys
Korean Zong in-Sob 220 No. 98
N. Am. Indian *Thompson Tales 352 n. 271a
Africa (Wute) Sieber ZsES XII 171f.
West Indies Flowers 529
Jamaica *Beckwith MAFLS XVII 256 No. 38.
general Bødker Exempler 289 No. 42

Within the index

Filed under Fatal deception into trickster's power.

1 finer motif beneath it

Sham doctor kills ogre (giant)

Filed beside it

Victim lured into house and killed Victim burned in his own house (or hiding place) Stag killed by lion into whose den the fox puts him Overcurious dupe enters trickster's basket and is killed Victim lured by kind words approaches trickster and is killed Dupe lured to supposed dance and killed Victim persuaded to disarm. Killed Fairies in animal form persuaded they will hear music better in own shapes. Are killed Women draw warrior aside so that confederate may kill him Victim persuaded to hold out his tongue: cut off. Robbers induced by various excuses (to learn to sing, to learn foreign language, to have a hair taken off the tongue) Hoodwinked dancers. A trickster induces ducks to dance with closed eyes and kills them Dupe persuaded to relax vigilance; seized Bloodthirsty animal by trickery admitted to fold: kills peaceful animal Victim killed while being bathed Dupe induced to look about: seized and killed Man lured into aiding trickster who has feigned an accident or needs help. Is killed

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