μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

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.)

Animals. · Friendly animals. · Services of helpful animals. · Healing by animals. · view the constellation · filed as B512

Filed across the traditions
  • Jewish Neuman
  • India *Thompson-Balys
  • Japanese Ikeda. N. Am. Indian: Thompson Tales 354 n. 279.
  • general *Type 160, 303, 590, 612
  • general *BP I 128
  • general Chauvin II 106 No. 71
  • general Kittredge Gawain 153 n. 4
  • general Wesselski Märchen 239f. No. 50. – *Krappe Papers and Trans. of Jubilee Cong. of Folk-Lore Soc. 277ff. – *Fb "blad" IV 44a
  • general *Frazer Apollodorus I 312 n. 2. – Icel.: Boberg, Völsunga saga ch. 8. → on our shelf: The Library (Bibliotheca), BOOK III, ch. III
Within the index

Filed under Healing by animals.

Filed beside it
Animal as healer 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
Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)
Helpful reptile
Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes
Cow with changing colors. Changes every four hours: white, red, black Man falls into jar of honey and is drowned. Chases a mouse
Carried in tale types

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