Doctor Know-all

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Doctor Know-all
Folk tale
NameDoctor Know-all
Aarne–Thompson groupingATU 1641
CountryGermany
Published in Grimms' Fairy Tales

"Doctor Know-all" (German: Doktor Allwissend) is a German fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm, tale number 98 in Grimms' Fairy Tales . It has an ATU index of 1641. Another tale of this type is Almondseed and Almondella .

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Analysis

The folktale is widespread "throughout Europe, India, [1] Asia, some parts of Africa" and in the Americas. [2]

Commenting on the tale repertoire of female storyteller Argyro, a Greek refugee from Asia Minor, Greek scholar Marianthi Kaplanoglou stated that she knew a story of the tale type ATU 1641, a "common" type to both "the Greek and Turkish corpora". [3]

German scholar Ulrich Marzolph  [ de ], in his catalogue of Persian folktales, listed 10 variants of the tale type across Persian sources, with the title Der falsche Wahrsager ("The False Soothsayer"). [4]

According to Professor Bronislava Kerbelytė, the tale type is reported to register 229 Lithuanian variants, under the banner Doctor Know-All. [5]

References

  1. ↑ "The All-Knowing One (Sarabjan)". In: Barua, J. Folk Tales Of Assam. 1963. pp. 84-93.
  2. ↑ Seal, Graham. Encyclopedia of Folk Heroes. ABC/CLIO. 2001. p. 145. ISBN   1-57607-718-7
  3. ↑ Kaplanoglou, Marianthi. "Two Storytellers from the Greek-Orthodox Communities of Ottoman Asia Minor. Analyzing Some Micro-data in Comparative Folklore". In: Fabula 51, no. 3-4 (2010): 257. https://doi.org/10.1515/fabl.2010.024
  4. ↑ Marzolph, Ulrich. Typologie des persischen Volksmärchens . Beirut: Orient-Inst. der Deutschen Morgenländischen Ges.; Wiesbaden: Steiner [in Komm.], 1984. pp. 233-235.
  5. ↑ Skabeikytė-Kazlauskienė, Gražina. Lithuanian Narrative Folklore: Didactical Guidelines. Kaunas: Vytautas Magnus University. 2013. p. 41. ISBN   978-9955-21-361-1.

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