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Motif

Patient fed salt: animal comes out for water. The patient is fed salt or heavily salted food and allowed no water for several days. He then stands with mouth open before a supply of fresh water, often a running brook. The thirsty animal emerges to get fresh water.

Animals. · Fanciful traits of animals. · Other fanciful traits of animals. · view the constellation · filed as B784.2.1

Filed across the traditions
  • Italian Novella Rotunda (J1115.2.3).
  • general Ireland, U.S.: *Baughman
Within the index

Filed under Means of ridding person of animal in stomach.

2 finer motifs beneath it
Snake (frog) in human body enticed out by milk (water) Husband ties a cock near wife's feet: snake-parasite in her stomach comes out to catch the cock and is killed by husband
Filed beside it
No remedy possible Patient sits before tempting meal without eating; animal emerges Frog is enticed from patient's mouth by offering it a piece of cheese Physician removes animal from stomach of patient
Carried in tale types

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