57 motifs match “medicine”  ·  back to the chapters

• Origin of medicine (healing). A1438
• Origin of medicine: shaman sent down by the Creator equipped with it. A1438.1
• St. Peter's grass. Created by the saint as medicine for snakebite. A2623
• Rat gives magic medicine. B191.4
• Medicine shown by animal. It heals another animal with a medicine (herb, water, etc.) and thus shows the man the remedy. Sometimes the medicine resuscitates the dead. (The animal is most frequently the serpent. (Cf. B491.) B512
• Disenchantment by medicine. D771.6
• Disenchantment by blowing medicine on victim. D778.2
• Magic waters and medicines. D1240
• Magic medicine (= charm). D1241
• Human liver as medicine. D1248
• Charm (medicine) indicates direction. (Cf. D1241.) D1313.9
• Medicine gives magic sight. (Cf. D1240.) D1331.1.2
• Magic medicine (charm) gives strength. (Cf. D1241.) D1335.10
• Medicine gives immortality. (Cf. D1241.) D1346.11
• Magic medicine makes sterile fertile. (Cf. D1241.) D1347.3
• Magic medicine renders invisible. (Cf. D1240.) D1361.22
• Magic medicine causes loss of memory. (Sprinkled on head.) (Cf. D1241, D1242.) D1365.8
• Medicines of forgetfulness and remembering. D1365.8.1
• Fetish medicine causes constant hunger. (Cf. D1241.) D1373.1
• "Milk-medicine" causes milk to appear in woman's breast. (Cf. D1241.) D1379.5
• Magic medicine causes person to stick to seat (pot). (Cf. D1241.) D1413.11
• Gold used in medicine. D1500.1.31
• Sweat used in medicine. D1500.1.36
• Urine used in medicine. (Cf. D1002.1.1.) D1500.1.37
• Medicine causes woman to bear twins. (Cf. D1241.) D1501.8
• Medicine on feet permits man to walk on water. (Cf. D1241.) D1524.1.1
• Magic medicine causes streams to dry up. (Cf. D1241.) D1542.3.1
• Magic medicine produces wind. (Cf. D1241.) D1543.5
• Magic medicine brings success. (Cf. D1241.) D1561.1.4
• Fetish-medicine automatically punishes. (Cf. D1241.) D1601.19
• Magic speed by eating magic grains (medicine). D2122.1
• Evil spirit exorcised by burning medicine. D2176.3.1.1
• Resuscitation by medicines. E100
• Fairies take revenge on smith who disturbs them in the smithy when he returns after dark to get medicine. F361.17.2
• Dwarfs heal (give medicine). F451.5.1.10
• Voice changed by medicine. F556.3
• Ogre: karumba kills hero by medicines. G347
• Healed with his own medicine. J1513
• Layman's ignorance of medicine. J1734
• Fools take fatal overdose of medicine. J2115
• Trickster eats medicines that physic him. J2134.2
• Numskulls eat medicine that physics them. Biscayans pour medicine into rice for broth with which to cook rice. J2134.2.1
• Servant sent to doctor finds trip futile. Doctor may not be in and, if he is there, he may not give the medicine. He may give the medicine but it may not have any effect; or, if it does have any, he has to die someday anyway and the medicine will not prevent him from dying. J2241.2
• Seduction by pretending to give childless man's wife medicine. When husband comes at cockcrow as he was told, trickster says he came too late and they must do it again. K1315.2.4
• Woman abducted by giving her medicine which appears to have killed her. K1364
• Seduction by giving aphrodisiac. Woman tricked into standing naked in stream; medicine put into water. K1395
• Sham physician: making the girl grow up. A king wants his daughter to grow up quickly. The physician says that he must send away for the medicine; meantime she must be shut up. After several years they show her to the king. She has grown. K1955.5
• Sham physician refuses to take his own medicine: unmasked. K1955.7
• Sham doctor prescribes medicine for king's army; they fall ill; invading army, seeing multitudes being carried away in litters, flee, thinking there is a plague. K2368.3
• Woman unwittingly poisons her son. Mistakes poison for medicine. N332.5
• Patient laughs at monkey and cures himself. Monkey takes medicine and cuts capers as result. N641.1
• Stinging of buttocks as cure for cough. Patient applies stinging medicine and makes himself sore. He represses his cough to keep from hurting his hindquarters and is finally cured. N643
• Supernatural medicine-man as helper. N819.4
• Physician hides eyes as he passes graveyard. He does not want to see those who have died from his medicine. P424.1
• Medicine against quarrelling: the wife must take one dose and keep it in her mouth for ten minutes as soon as her husband is angry. T256.2
• Conception from eating medicines. T511.8.2
• Milk medicine fills woman's breasts with milk. T592.1