Hunchback cured by having hump severely beaten

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Hunchback cured by having hump severely beaten.

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

Scholars’ trail — 3references

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.

India*Thompson-Balys
HawaiiBeckwith 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

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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