Remedy for lack of water in certain place overheard in conversation of animals (demons)

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Remedy for lack of water in certain place overheard in conversation of animals (demons).

Chance and fate. · Lucky accidents. · Valuable secrets learned. · Secrets overheard. · view the constellation · filed as N452.1

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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.

LithuanianBalys Legends No. 527.
general *Type 613
general **Christiansen FFC XXIV 86ff.

Within the index

Filed under Secret remedy overheard in conversation of animals (witches).

1 finer motif beneath it

Reason for withering of tree overheard in conversation of animals (demons)

Filed beside it

Secret remedy revealed by departing animal. House spirit (or bird) leaves saying, "If you knew what valerian is good for, the people would not die so fast."

Carried in tale types

The Two Travelers · ATU 613216 recorded variants

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