Sight restored by animal — Mythoi

Motif

Sight restored by animal.

Animals. · Friendly animals. · Services of helpful animals. · Healing by animals. · view the constellation · filed as B516

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

Indic The Mahābhārata , Book 11, Section 16

Filed across the traditions

India Thompson-Balys
Eskimo (Greenland) Holm 31, Rasmussen I 312, III 203, Rink 100, (Smith Sound): Kroeber JAFL XII 169, (Cumberland Sound): Boas BAM XV 169, (Central Eskimo): Boas RBAE VI 626.

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 Resuscitation by animals

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