Motif
False healer exposed by a practical test
false_healer_exposed_by_a_practical_test
A motif of the Divine Judgment and Moral Reckoning family, within the sub-family False Accusation and Fraud Exposed. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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greek
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Aesop's Fables; a new translation THE GRASSHOPPER AND THE ANTS / THE FARMER AND THE VIPER / THE TWO FROGS / THE COBBLER TURNED DOCTOR; lines 3359-3376 confidence: high
The cobbler is unskilful, abandons mending boots, takes up doctoring, claims a universal antidote against poisons, and gains reputation through self-promotion.
The cobbler claims medical power, but the king's staged test causes him to admit that he knows nothing about medicine and that the antidote is worthless.
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