• 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

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• ATU 1641A Sham Physician Pretends to Diagnose Entirely from Urinanalysis
• ATU 1641B Physician in Spite of Himself
• ATU 1641D The Sham Physician
• ATU 1862 Anecdotes about Doctors (Physicians)
• ATU 1862A Sham Physician: Using the Flea Powder
• ATU 514** A Young Woman Disguised as a Man is Wooed by the Queen (previously The Court Physician)