μῦθοι Mythoi
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Filed under Healing by animals.

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Snake as healerPig as healerFaithful horse pushes sleep thorn out of its master's head, so that he awakesRat cures man of woundBird heals man
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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 manResuscitation by animalsSight restored by animal

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