μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Animal as healer.

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

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Filed under Healing by animals.

5 finer motifs beneath it
Snake as healer 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
Filed beside it
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.) Remedy learned from overhearing animal meeting. The hero learns how to cure his own blindness and the sickness of the king (princess) Animal fetches remedy for man Resuscitation by animals Sight restored by animal

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