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Motif

Dumb person brought to speak.

Marvels. · Extraordinary occurrences. · Marvelous cures. · view the constellation · filed as F954

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
Filed across the traditions
  • Irish myth *Cross
  • India Thompson-Balys
  • West Indies Flowers 438.
Within the index

Filed under Marvelous cures.

5 finer motifs beneath it
Thread under dumb man's tongue cut. This permits him to speak Dumbness cured by question Fainting brings recovery of speech Chilli plant so hot it causes dumb man to speak: thus discovered for eating Person made to speak by warning of danger
Filed beside it
Sickness cured by napkin of Veronica Extreme anger as cure for sickness. (Cf. F955.) Measuring sick as means of cure Sickness (madness) cured by coition Extreme fear as cure for sickness Sucking through tubes heals wounds. (Cf. F959.3.) Marvelous cure without seeing person Princess cured by seeing her lost lover dance Healing by sprinkling water and replacing flesh Blindness miraculously cured Cripple marvelously cured Miraculous cure for leprosy. Rage at hearing for first time of Christ's passion causes cure. (Cf. F950.3.) Extraordinary diagnosis Cure by physician's imitating sick man's actions Mountebank undertakes to bring the city's incurables back to health. Effects marvelous cures Marvelous cures – miscellaneous
Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)
Silent wife brought to speech by dangers to her husband. (Cf. F954.)

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