The Three Army Surgeons

"The Three Army Surgeons" (KHM 118, Die drei Feldscherer) is a Brothers Grimm fairy tale.

Three traveling army surgeons perform surgery on themselves to impress an innkeeper.

During the night a girl working at the inn has a visit from her lover, a soldier.

In the morning the doctors re-attach the missing members using a salve they carry with them.

After traveling back to the original inn they found the girl had fled seeing their approach.