Snake as healer

Motif

Snake as healer.

Animals. · Friendly animals. · Services of helpful animals. · Healing by animals. · view the constellation · filed as B511.1

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In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

Depth CommentaryThemis: A Study of the Social Origins of Greek Religion, CHAPTER 1X

Scholars’ trail — 4references

The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our shelf are live links; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.

JewishNeuman
IndiaThompson-Balys.
general *Chauvin VII 25 No. 373 F note 5
general *Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 648

Within the index

Filed under Animal as healer.

3 finer motifs beneath it

Snake creeps into man's mouth and heals him Snake heals mutilated maiden with magic herbs Helpful hedgehog forces snake to suck out poison from bitten raja

Filed beside it

Pig as healer Faithful horse pushes sleep thorn out of its master's head, so that he awakes Rat cures man of wound Bird heals man

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