47 motifs match “physician”  ·  back to the chapters

• Physician of the gods. A144
• Origin of physicians. A1594
• Boar acts as physician for holy man: licks his wounded feet. B256.6.3
• Animal physician. B299.6
• Physician removes animal from stomach of patient. B784.2.4
• Fairy physician. F274
• Fairy physician can heal anyone whose spine is not severed. F344.2
• Skillful physician. F668.0.1
• Physician, by examining wound can tell whether it was inflicted by a man or a woman and describe him or her in detail. F956.4
• Cure by physician's imitating sick man's actions. F957
• Physician willing to believe in four persons. Angers a theologian by disputing doctrine of the Trinity. "Don't get angry," he says; "rather than have you condemn me to hell, I would believe in four persons." J817.2
• Clever physician. J1115.2
• Physician decides that there is no need of purging one who drinks so many liquids. J1115.2.1
• Physician removes pea from patient's ear. Knocks him down and pea rolls out. J1115.2.2
• 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
• No physician at all. A bad physician having predicted the immediate death of a patient meets him recovered. "How go things down below?" "They put you at the head of the list of bad physicians, but I maintained that you were no physician at all." J1432
• Will work when beaten. A wife whose husband has beaten her sends a rumor to the sick king that her husband is a skilled physician but will practice only when he is well beaten. He is seized and whipped. J1545.1
• Foolish physician cauterizes "sick" cartwheel to stop it from creaking; burns it up instead. J2412.7
• Girl tells physician-seducer she cannot meet his wishes until after he bathes. Prepares the bath herself and pours acid into it. K1227.4.1
• Illness feigned to call physician paramour. K1514.11
• Physician treating man's eye covers his one good eye. Entertains his patient's mistress. K1516.1.1
• Poor girl masks as doctor and is made court physician. K1825.1.2
• Disguise as physician to poison enemies. K1825.1.6
• Sham physician. K1955
• Sham physician cures people by threatening them with death. K1955.1
• Sham physician pretends to diagnose entirely from urinalysis. Really from observation and inference from trifles. K1955.2
• 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
• Sham physician: using the flea powder. Catch the flea, open its mouth, and place the powder inside. K1955.4
• Sham 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 grown. K1955.5
• 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. K1955.6
• Sham physician refuses to take his own medicine: unmasked. K1955.7
• Sham physician gives relative a medical degree. K1955.8
• Sham physician hands out prescriptions haphazard. K1955.9.1
• Double dealing physician. K2041
• Double dealing physician hired to poison his master who has sent him to poison enemy. K2041.1
• Treacherous physician. K2292
• Enigmatical prophecy: princess will wed physician, fisherman and prince all in one. Man puts on the guise of all three, one on top of another. M306.3
• Patient laughs so at foolish diagnosis of sham physician that his abscess breaks and he gets well. She has been told to examine the floor around the patient's bed for signs of what he has been eating. She finds the patient surrounded with pillows: he has eaten too many pillows. N641
• Physician. P424
• Physician hides eyes as he passes graveyard. He does not want to see those who have died from his medicine. P424.1
• Physician killed for fatal diagnosis. P424.3
• "Skillful" physician compelled to help carry away the bier of his dead patient. P424.3.1
• Fairy as physician. P424.4
• Female physician. P424.5
• Druid as physician. (Cf. P424.) P427.5
• Fairy physician abducted to heal wounded mortals. (Cf. F344.) R33
• Hero in battle refuses to slay charioteers, women, or physicians. (Cf. C867.1.) W11.5.12