Animal fetches remedy for man — Mythoi

Motif

Animal fetches remedy for man.

Animals. · Friendly animals. · Services of helpful animals. · Healing by animals. · view the constellation · filed as B514

Filed across the traditions

Missouri-French Carrière.

Within the index

Filed under Healing by animals.

3 finer motifs beneath it

Grateful fox fetches fox liver as remedy Bee fetches balm from heaven to restore hero's speech Snake gives man antidote for poison

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

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