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ChildrenDeathDeath of sonDeceitful womanGriefFather/son relationshipsIllnessLesson: women’s cleverness and deceitMedicineMurderSuicide

A Milanese doctor has a gravely ill son, who craves an onion. His wife persuades the doctor to not allow his son it, and he died. The doctor learns that the onion would have cured his son, kills his wife (the boy's mother) and then himself.

Adapted from Wikeley (1983) by Ava Byrne.

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 {{Inset Story
-|Has Short Description=A Milanese doctor has a gravely ill son, who craves an onion. His wife persuades the doctor to not allow his son it, and he died. The doctor learns that the onion would have cured his son, kills his wife (the boy's mother) and then himself.
+|Has Motif=Children; Death; Death of son; Deceitful woman; Grief; Father/son relationships; Illness; Lesson: women’s cleverness and deceit; Medicine; Murder; Suicide
+|Has Summary=A Milanese doctor has a gravely ill son, who craves an onion. His wife persuades the doctor to not allow his son it, and he died. The doctor learns that the onion would have cured his son, kills his wife (the boy's mother) and then himself.
 Adapted from Wikeley (1983) by Ava Byrne.
-|Has Motif=Children; Death; Death of son; Deceitful woman; Grief; Father/son relationships; Illness; Lesson: women’s cleverness and deceit; Medicine; Murder; Suicide
 }}