The citation row lands at the Cadmus chapter, where only the tail of a Frazer note survives; the story itself is served whole one seam earlier. The child Glaucus drowns in a jar of honey; the seer Polyidus, ordered to restore him alive, "was shut up with the dead body" [The Library (Bibliotheca), BOOK III, ch. III]. In his perplexity he "saw a serpent going towards the corpse" and killed it; then the demonstration: a second serpent "returned, bringing a herb, and placed it on the whole body of the other", and the dead snake revived [ibid.]. Polyidus, surprised, "applied the same herb to the body of Glaucus and raised him from the dead" [ibid.]. Thompson's motif is precisely this pedagogy: the animal does not hand over medicine, it performs the cure where a man can watch. The stranded note-tail in the next chapter still earns its keep, adding a Tongan parallel — a dead boy "brought to life by being covered with the leaves of a certain tree" [The Library (Bibliotheca), BOOK III, ch. IV, editor's note]. The Völsunga-saga citation and four tale-types in Thompson's apparatus remain unwired to served text.