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

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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

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Scholars’ trail — 3references

The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our shelf are live links; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.

Spanish ExemplaKeller
Missouri-FrenchCarrière
IndiaThompson-Balys. – See references for B235.

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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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