μῦθοι Mythoi
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  • Missouri-FrenchCarrière.
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Filed under Healing by animals.

3 finer motifs beneath it
Grateful fox fetches fox liver as remedyBee fetches balm from heaven to restore hero's speechSnake gives man antidote for poison
Filed beside it
Animal as healerMedicine 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)Resuscitation by animalsSight restored by animal

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