Helpful reptile — Mythoi

Motif

Helpful reptile.

Animals. · Friendly animals. · Kinds of helpful animals. · Other helpful animals. · view the constellation · filed as B491

Within the index

Filed under Other helpful animals.

5 finer motifs beneath it

Helpful serpent Helpful lizard Helpful crocodile Helpful worm Helpful turtle (tortoise)

Filed beside it

Helpful amphibian Helpful crustacean Helpful mythical animal

Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)

Medicine shown by animal. It heals another animal with a medicine (herb, water, etc.) and thus shows the man the remedy. Sometimes the medicine resuscitates the dead. (The animal is most frequently the serpent. (Cf. B491.)

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