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| Doctor Know-all | |
|---|---|
| Folk tale | |
| Name | Doctor Know-all |
| Aarne–Thompson grouping | ATU 1641 |
| Country | Germany |
| 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 .
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 , 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]
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