Physician — Mythoi

Motif

Physician.

Society. · Trades and professions. · Learned professions. · view the constellation · filed as P424

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

Greco-RomanThe Library (Bibliotheca), BOOK II, ch. II
Greco-RomanThe Library (Bibliotheca), BOOK III, ch. X
Middle EasternThe Thousand and One Nights, commonly called, in England, The Arabian Nights' Entertainments, Chapter 16

Scholars’ trail — 2references

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.

Irish mythCross.
general Penzer X 263a s. v. "Physician"

Within the index

Filed under Learned professions.

5 finer motifs beneath it

Physician hides eyes as he passes graveyard. He does not want to see those who have died from his medicine Doctor who can cure can also poison. This reflection brings the doctor under the king's suspicion Physician killed for fatal diagnosis Fairy as physician Female physician

Filed beside it

Judge Lawyer Scribe Clergy Druid (poet, learned man)Musician Miscellaneous learned professions

Travels with

Druid as physician. (Cf. P424.)

wander