Hunchback cured by having hump severely beaten — Mythoi

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Hunchback cured by having hump severely beaten.

Marvels. · Extraordinary occurrences. · Marvelous cures. · view the constellation · filed as F953.1

Filed across the traditions

India *Thompson-Balys
Hawaii Beckwith Myth 233
general Africa (Nyanja): Rattray Some Folk-Lore Stories and Songs in Chinyanja (London, 1907) 149ff. No. 24.

Within the index

Filed under Cripple marvelously cured.

Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)

Blindness cured by striking eyes. (Cf. F953.1.) Fool claims to cure goitre by striking. Has seen melon thus dislodged from camel's throat. (Cf. F952.3.1, F953.1.)

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