μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
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.

  • Irish myth*Cross
  • IndiaThompson-Balys.
Within the index

Filed under Methods of magic cure.

3 finer motifs beneath it
Magic cure by bathing in milkMagic cure by bathing in consecrated water (lake, etc.). (Cf. D1500.1.18.5, V132.)Cure by washing in dew
Filed beside it
Cure after following instructions received from saint in dreamCure by transferring disease to animal. (Cf. D1500.3.)Disease transferred to objectCure by passing through earth at crossroadsPerson cured by repairing image that has same deformityCure by passing patient through cleft of tree (other loop). (Cf. F950.3.)Animal buried alive to cure diseaseAnimal burned to cure disease. Especially for disease among animalsCure by burning grain where man has died. (Cf. D1787.) Or where he is buriedBaptism as magic cure. (Cf. V81.)Disease cured by same thing (person) that caused itCure by putting children on roof (in oven)Magic cure during sleepEating of human hearts as cure for insomniaMagic cure by lying on saint's shadowMagic cure by touching
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Magic results from bathing. (Cf. D562, D925, D2161.4.14.)

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