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• Saint cures the blind young ones of a hyena or wolf by the sign of the cross and the application of his saliva. (Cf. D1500.1.8.1.) The animal mother is grateful. B384
• Rat cures man of wound. B511.4
• Vulture cures blindness. B511.5.1
• Prince procures magic object from bathing fairy when he steals her clothes. D838.10
• Recovery of magic object cures madness. D880.0.1
• Ghoulish magic object cures disease. (Cf. D1278.) D1500.1.6
• Magic amulet cures disease. (Cf. D1070.) D1500.1.8
• Magic jewel cures disease. (Cf. D1071.) D1500.1.9
• Magic sapphire cures disease. D1500.1.9.1
• Wine blessed by saint or received from the saint's hand cures various ills. D1500.1.10.2.1
• Magic statue cures disease. (Cf. D1268.) D1500.1.12
• Magic statue of brazen serpent cures disease. D1500.1.12.1
• Saint's bell cures disease. (Cf. D1213.) D1500.1.13.3
• Saint's mallet cures disease. (Cf. D1209.4.) D1500.1.14
• Magic weapon cures disease. (Cf. D1080.) D1500.1.17
• Magic sword cures disease. (Cf. D1081.) D1500.1.17.1
• Cures by the milk of the mothers of saints. (Cf. D1500.1.10.) D1500.1.33.1.1
• Magic bird dung cures. (Cf. D1026.1.) D1500.1.33.3.1
• Fish head cures disease. (Cf. D1011.) D1500.1.33.5
• Magic object cures particular diseases. D1502
• Magic object cures headache. D1502.1
• Magic object cures toothache. D1502.2
• Magic object cures scrofula. D1502.2.3
• Hangman's noose cures scrofula. (Cf. D1278.) D1502.2.3.1
• Magic object cures fever. (Cf. D2161.1.2.) D1502.3
• Magic object cures leprosy. D1502.4
• Magic potion cures leprosy. (Cf. D1242.2.) D1502.4.1
• Touching magic boat with exposed child in it cures leprosy. (Cf. D1121.) D1502.4.3
• Magic object cures mange. D1502.5
• Magic object cures urinary disease. D1502.6
• Magic object cures earache. D1502.7
• Magic locust egg cures earache. (Cf. D1024.) D1502.7.1
• Magic object cures boils (tumors). D1502.8
• Magic-dog brain cures boils. (Cf. D1010.) D1502.8.1
• Magic snail body cures boils. (Cf. D1010.1.) D1502.8.2
• Viper body cures skin disease. (Cf. D1010.1.) D1502.9
• Magic water cures stomach trouble. (Cf. D1242.1.) D1502.11
• Grass and flowers which grew upon a saint's grave are good for cures. (Cf. D975.) D1503.10.1
• Amulet cures nosebleed. (Cf. D1070.) D1504.2
• Magic object cures blindness. D1505
• Animal excreta cures blindness. (Cf. D1026.1.) D1505.13
• Animal liver cures blindness. (Cf. D1015.4.) D1505.14
• Magic object cures deafness. D1506
• Soup made of black dog's head cures madness. (Cf. D1032.3.) D1508.4
• Magic object cures drunkenness. D1511
• Magic carpet cures drunkenness. (Cf. D1155.) D1511.1
• Magic object cures ulcers. D1512
• Magic ointment cures ulcers. (Cf. D1244.) D1512.1
• Holy water procures fire or light. (Cf. V132.) D1566.1.7
• Ointment cures left cheek, not right. (Cf. D1244.) D1663.2
• Fountains poison and cure. One, with bronze vessel, tastes sweet and poisons; other, with iron vessel, tastes bitter and cures. D1663.4
• Dead grateful for having corpse ransomed. Corpse is being held unburied because of nonpayment of debts. Hero pays debt and secures burial of corpse. E341.1
• Cures by transferring disease to dead. Ghoulish charm used for this purpose. E595
• Marvelous cures. F950
• Wife cures self of catarrh by calling to husband fondling maid at bedside. F950.2.1
• Mountebank undertakes to bring the city's incurables back to health. Effects marvelous cures. F958
• Marvelous cures – miscellaneous. F959
• Fox (in man's form) betrays identity when he procures fox-food for human wife. H48.2
• The penny baked in the wafer. A peasant always puts a bad penny into the offering. The priest has a penny baked in a wafer and gives it to the peasant at communion. The peasant, unable to swallow it, thinks that he is possessed of the devil. The priest asks whether he has ever done wrong with a penny, secures confession and a pledge of reform. J1582.1
• The one word petition. A guardian of monks in need of food approaches the prince The prince is busy and says that he will permit the guardian but a single word. The guardian says, "Soup", and secures all the food he wants from the prince. J1618
• Getting a box on the ears. The man, advised to cure his wife with a box on the ears, goes to the pharmacy and gets one. He cures his wife. J2494
• Helpful animal amuses princess with tricks and secures key to treasury. K341.18
• Deception into listening to speaker. He secures the audience's attention by beginning a tale. He then launches into his speech. K477.2
• The weeping bitch. A procuress throws pepper into the eyes of a bitch so that she weeps. She pretends to the virtuous woman that the bitch is a woman transformed because of failure to respond to her lover. The woman is persuaded. K1351
• Woman secures man's spear (arrow), lures him with it into her hut. K1399.4
• The marked coat in the wife's room. A procuress obtains a woman for her client by leaving a marked coat in her room. The husband drives the wife away and she joins her lover. The procuress then goes to the husband and alleges that she lost a coat with certain marks. The husband is deceived and takes the wife back. K1543
• Tables turned on procuress by chaste wife. The old woman is enticed into the wife's room, beaten, and driven forth naked. K1683
• Dog procures disguise from magician to frighten tiger. K1810.2
• God disguised as doctor cures mortal. K1811.3
• Deceptive cure by illusion. Man told that he can be cured only with blood of his own child. He is made to believe that the child is killed. When he learns that the child is still alive, the excess of joy cures him. K1889.2
• True bride takes house near husband. Thus eventually secures his attention. K1911.3.2
• Sham physician cures people by threatening them with death. K1955.1
• Alchemist secures payment for his "secret". K1966.2
• Brother (sister) secures blessing due to another. K1988
• Patient laughs at monkey and cures himself. Monkey takes medicine and cuts capers as result. N641.1
• Man thinks to end life by drinking poisonous water, but it cures him. N646
• The one of two giant brothers who performs the greatest feat and procures the wildest dog elected as king. P11.2.2.1
• Monk cures himself of desire for dead sweetheart. He digs up her remains. T334
• Father by trickery secures priest's advice to marry his own daughter. If a man raise a lamb, shall he eat it himself or let another eat it? T411.1.1
• Mother acts as procuress of bedmate for her son. T452.1
• Host cures disease. V34.1
• Saint cures palsy. V221.1
• Saint cures leprosy. V221.3
• Saint cures frenzied animal. V221.4.0.1
• Saint cures dumb person. V221.11
• Saint cures blindness. V221.12
• Doctor cures palpitation of heart: patient stops breathing. X372.1
• Man cures rheumatism: puts mosquito milk in a cat's horn, stirs it with duck's crotch. X1787