μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Remedy learned from overhearing animal meeting. The hero learns how to cure his own blindness and the sickness of the king (princess).

Animals. · Friendly animals. · Services of helpful animals. · Healing by animals. · view the constellation · filed as B513

Filed across the traditions
  • Spanish Exempla Keller
  • Missouri-French Carrière
  • India Thompson-Balys. – See references for B235.
Within the index

Filed under Healing by animals.

Filed beside it
Animal as healer 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.) Animal fetches remedy for man Resuscitation by animals Sight restored by animal

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