Sight restored by animal

Motif

Sight restored by animal.

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

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In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

IndicThe Mahābhārata, Book 11, Section 16

Scholars’ trail — 2references

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.

IndiaThompson-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.

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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.)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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