Resuscitation by animals — Mythoi

Motif

Resuscitation by animals.

Animals. · Friendly animals. · Services of helpful animals. · Healing by animals. · view the constellation · filed as B515

Filed across the traditions

Jewish Neuman
India *Thompson-Balys.
general *Types 300, 665. Italian Novella: Rotunda

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.) 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 Sight restored by animal

Carried in tale types

The Man who Flew like a Bird and Swam like a Fish · ATU 665 4 recorded variants

ask the rhapsode about this motif · search the shelf for “resuscitation” · wander