Sorrowing father magically restored as lost son approaches. He had lost strength, sight and hearing when son left home

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Sorrowing father magically restored as lost son approaches. He had lost strength, sight and hearing when son left home.

Magic. · Magic powers and manifestations. · Manifestations of magic power. · Miscellaneous magical manifestations. · Miscellaneous magical manifestations. · view the constellation · filed as D2161.4.10.4

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Scholars’ trail — 1reference

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.

ScotlandCampbell-McKay No. 25.

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Filed under Disease cured by same thing (person) that caused it.

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Only one person possesses power to heal certain wound Wound healed by same spear that caused it Wound healed only by person who gave it. (Or by member of his family.) (Cf. D2161.2.)Healing with hair of dog that bit one Blindness cured by killing snake that caused it

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