84 motifs match “doctor”  ·  back to the chapters

• Establishment of doctor's fees. A1594.1
• Snake revives snakes which have been injured (the doctor snake). B765.21
• Dragon fly acts as doctor to injured snakes. B765.24.1
• Transformation to doctor. D25.1
• Arrested farmer tells who he is: one son is thief (priest), second beggar (teacher), and third murderer (doctor). H581.4
• Malicious wife reports that her husband is a famous doctor: he is commanded to cure the princess. H916.1.1
• Wisdom from fool: the present returned. Nobleman gives fool a present; he is to give it to no one who is not a greater fool. Master is dying; doctor tells fool that master is going to take long journey. Since master is making no preparation, fool gives him the present. Master thus brought to repentance. J156.3
• King questions six doctors. J171.2
• King questions six doctors: what do you like best of all on earth? That man has not what he wishes to have. J171.2.1
• King questions six doctors: what do you like best of all on earth? That all joys are mixed with sorrow. J171.2.2
• King questions six doctors: what do you like best of all on earth? That all evil and hypocrisy will have an end. J171.2.3
• King questions six doctors: what must you most marvel at on earth? That those who are most respected are the biggest fools. J171.2.4
• King questions six doctors: what must you most marvel at on earth? That those who speak of spiritual matters are usually the most depraved. J171.2.5
• King questions six doctors: what must you most marvel at on earth? That man lives in a state in which he cannot die. J171.2.6
• Bad associates bring death to bishop. Doctor loses his life for him and lawyer his soul. J452
• Wolf tries in vain to be doctor. Only increases patient's suffering. J512.5
• Doctor loses a horse for the sake of the truth. Overlord asks two doctors whether he is entitled to all the possessions of his retainers. One doctor unrighteously answers yes and receives a horse. The other who tells the truth receives nothing. J551.3
• Doctor gives advice after patient dies. Scorned for lack of foresight. J756.1
• Cure yourself before doctoring others. J1062
• Frog as beauty doctor unable to cure his own ugliness. J1062.1
• Doctor unable to cure himself scorned. J1062.2
• Ruler orders doctor to wear his hair and his robe "not too long and not too short". Has both his hair and his cloak cut half short and half long. J1161.8
• The woman with bad eyes. Physician called to doctor woman's eyes bandages them and then steals things each day. She refuses to pay fee and is haled to court. She says that her sight is worse than ever for whereas she used to see many things in her house she now sees very little. Theft is thus revealed. J1169.1
• The road to Heaven. To doctor: "If this is the way to get to Heaven (drinking) I don't want to know any other!" J1314
• Will take care of the thirst. Doctors consult how to rid fever-stricken drunkard of his great thirst. "You take care of the fever; I shall take care of the thirst." J1322.1
• Stung by the goblet. Doctor tells drunkard, "The goblet has stung you." "If I had known that I would have drunk out of a glass." J1324
• Ancient and modern ancestors. To a prince who boasted that he was descended from the Trojans a doctor replies: "My people are of Nurenberg. Everyone knows who they are; but of the Trojans no one knows anything except that Aeneas was a traitor and Romulus a robber." J1357
• Repartee concerning doctors and patients. J1430
• I know not how. Sick man: "I came to a place I know not where; something happened I know not how; I am sick I know not where." Doctor: "Go to the pharmacy and buy I know not what, and eat it I know not how, and you will become well I know not when." J1431
• "Do as I say and not as I do." Doctor forbids patient to drink wine. When patient reproves doctor for drinking wine the latter says: "Just now it is bad for you and good for me." J1433
• Strenuous cure for madness. Doctor throws patients into a pit of water. Servant warns queer-looking hunter to flee before master throws him into the pit. (Cf. K2137.) J1434
• Veterinarian becomes doctor. When he killed animals he had to pay for them; but he did not have to pay for killing people. J1438
• Wife surrendered to king. Vizier advises doctor to give up his wife to love-sick prince since everything belongs to a sovereign. Doctor then tells him prince is in love not with his (the doctor's) wife but with the vizier's. J1511.19
• Urine diagnosis to tell where a man comes from. A farmer takes some of his master's urine for examination. The doctor asks where the man comes from. "You will soon see," says the man, expecting the analysis to tell. (Cf. K2321.1.) J1734.1
• Doctor's expressions misunderstood. J1803.2
• Numskull asks doctor which leg (own) is hurting him. J2021.1
• Having the head dressed before hanging. A man who has hurt his head in trying to hang himself has the head dressed by a doctor and then goes and hangs himself. J2174.3
• The doctor no longer needed. As the fool starts for the doctor the wife changes her mind. He continues to the doctor so as to tell him about it and to say that now he need not come. J2241
• Servant sent to doctor finds trip futile. Doctor may not be in and, if he is there, he may not give the medicine. He may give the medicine but it may not have any effect; or, if it does have any, he has to die someday anyway and the medicine will not prevent him from dying. J2241.2
• 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.) J2321.1
• Near-sighted man persuaded by doctor that he can see. J2341
• Imitation of the prescription. A peasant envying a doctor's fee for giving him a plaster and predicting a son, poses as a doctor. He predicts a son for a eunuch and gives a plaster for heart disease. J2412.3
• Imitation of diagnosis by observation: ass's flesh. A doctor tells his patient that he has eaten too much chicken, and this the patient confesses. The doctor's son wants to know how the diagnosis was made. The doctor says that as he rode up he observed chicken feathers and made his conclusions. The son imitates. He sees an ass's saddle. Diagnosis: you have eaten too much ass's flesh. J2412.4
• "Foresee the possible event." Asked to call a doctor when his master falls ill, fool also calls the undertaker. J2516.9
• Theft by posing as doctor. Trickster advises wife to slaughter pig and have the trickster eat it all. K352
• Sham doctor kills his patients. K824
• Sham doctor kills ogre (giant). K824.1
• Deception through false doctoring. K1010
• Making the dupe strong. The false doctor injures him. K1012
• False beauty-doctor. The trickster pretends to make the dupe beautiful. Injures him. K1013
• Feeling pulse: doctor severs arteries instead. K1017
• Wolf (lion) as sham doctor looks at horse's foot: kicked in face. K1121.1
• Seduction by posing as doctor. K1315.2
• Girl persuaded to sit on certain plant: seduced. Man as sham doctor tells her how to heal her burnt groins. K1315.2.1
• Paramour poses as doctor. K1517.2
• God disguised as doctor cures mortal. K1811.3
• Disguise as doctor. K1825.1
• Lover masks as doctor to reach sweetheart. K1825.1.1
• Girl disguised as doctor exposes queen's paramour who is masquerading as woman. K1825.1.1.1
• Poor girl masks as doctor and is made court physician. K1825.1.2
• Trickster masks as doctor and punishes his cheaters. K1825.1.3
• Girl masks as doctor to find departed lover. K1825.1.4
• Animal disguised as doctor. (Cf. K1822.) K1825.1.5
• Pepper as universal remedy of sham doctor: accidentally works. K1955.2.1
• 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. K1955.3
• Ignorant doctor draws his prescriptions by lot. K1955.9
• Doctor prescribes sexual intimacy for widow's ills. She claims to prefer death. Change of heart on daughters' plea. Daughters adopt treatment as a preventive. K2052.4.1
• Cat offers to act as doctor for cock and hen: plan detected. K2061.7
• Woman makes vain overtures to stepson and falsely accuses him of murder. She tries to poison him but her own son accidentally takes the beverage and apparently dies. Plot is revealed when doctor states that he had substituted sleeping potion for the poison. K2111.1
• Queen falsely accused of having poisoned husband. Ignorant doctors cannot diagnose king's illness. Queen burned at stake. K2116.1.2
• Sham doctor prescribes medicine for king's army; they fall ill; invading army, seeing multitudes being carried away in litters, flee, thinking there is a plague. K2368.3
• Quack-doctor as hero. L113.7
• Farmer surpasses astronomer and doctor in predicting weather and choosing food. L144.2
• Wager: more doctors than men of other professions. The trickster feigns toothache. Everyone suggests remedies. He takes down their names as doctors and wins the wager. N63
• Boy accidentally drinks "poison" intended for his stepbrother. Doctor had substituted sleeping potion for the requested poison. N332.4
• Practical joker asks doctor to castrate him. Doctor insists on the operation. N334.3
• King accidentally cured by doctor's ruse and excuses pretended inability to cure him. N648
• Doctor know-all accidentally saves raja. Roof caves in after he has dragged raja out with the intention of killing him and putting an end to all of his questions. N688.1
• Doctor who can cure can also poison. This reflection brings the doctor under the king's suspicion. P424.2
• Doctor ridicules belief in Devil, Heaven, and Hell. V382
• Jokes on doctors. X372
• Doctor cures palpitation of heart: patient stops breathing. X372.1
• Foolish doctor performs useless operation. X372.4
• Doctor called to attend sick man immediately gives orders for the funeral. X372.5