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• 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
• Remedy learned from overhearing animal meeting. The hero learns how to cure his own blindness and the sickness of the king (princess). B513
• Animal fetches remedy for man. B514
• Grateful fox fetches fox liver as remedy. B514.1
• Serpent shows condemned man how to save prince's life. Bites the prince and then shows the man the proper remedy (cf. B512). By thus ingratiating himself the man is freed from false accusation. B522.1
• No remedy possible. B784.2.0.1
• Magic water. (Note: here are included all references to magic water, whether as a remedy or as another type of magic agent). D1242.1
• Blood as remedy for barrenness in woman. (Cf. D1003.) D1347.2
• Corpse's hand as remedy. (Cf. D996.) D1500.1.6.1
• Churchyard mould as remedy. (Cf. D1278.1.) D1500.1.6.2
• Consecrated clay as remedy. (Cf. D935.2.) D1500.1.6.2.1
• Powdered skull as remedy. (Cf. D992.) D1500.1.7.1
• Blood of executed man as remedy. D1500.1.7.3.1
• Dragon's heart-blood as remedy. (Cf. B11.2.9, D1015.1.2, D1016) D1500.1.7.3.3
• Bath in blood of king as remedy. D1500.1.7.3.4
• Consecrated grain as remedy. (Cf. D973.) D1500.1.10.4
• Saint's bachall as remedy. (Cf. D1277.) D1500.1.13.4
• Ring made of coffin-hinge as remedy. D1500.1.15.2
• Water from saint's washing as remedy. D1500.1.18.1.2
• Baptismal water as remedy. (Cf. D1242.1.1.) D1500.1.18.2
• Holy water as remedy. (Cf. D1242.1.2.) D1500.1.18.3
• Water from bullaun (hollowed-out stone) as remedy. (Cf. D931.) D1500.1.18.5
• Magic garment as remedy. (Cf. D1052.) D1500.1.25
• Earth as remedy. (Cf. D935, D1503.12.) D1500.1.28
• Remedy for mad dog bite. D1515.5
• Body of housefly as remedy for hornet sting. (Cf. D1010.) D1517.1
• Magic remedy learned by magic. (Cf. D1500.) D1818
• Remedy for epilepsy. D2161.3.8.1
• Remedy for effects of seeing wild hunt. E501.19
• Fat of crow as remedy for king's wounds. F959.3.5
• Quest for marvelous remedy. H1324
• "If he does not live, let him die." The student as healer hangs this sign around the neck of a sick calf. Later as parson he is sick. It is proposed to heal him with the same remedy. J1513.1
• Fool carries his wife to the remedy instead of the opposite. J2214.8
• Hot onion to the eye. A friend has cured his foot with this remedy. J2412.1
• Sympathetic helper sent for remedy and robbed. K345.1
• Escape by alleged possession of external soul. Monkey caught for his heart (as remedy) makes his captor believe that he has left his heart at home. K544
• Remedy: covering with dry leaves. Victim burned up. (Cf. K1013.2.) K1010.1
• Eye-remedy. Under pretence of curing eyesight the trickster blinds the dupe. (Often with a glowing mass thrust into the eye.) K1011
• Ashes as remedy for sore eyes. K1011.2
• Pepper up noses as remedy. K1014.1
• False remedy for toothache. K1015
• Biting on stone given as remedy for toothache. Teeth injured. K1015.1
• Pepper as universal remedy of sham doctor: accidentally works. K1955.2.1
• Secret remedy overheard in conversation of animals (witches). N452
• Remedy for lack of water in certain place overheard in conversation of animals (demons). N452.1
• 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." N452.2
• Magic potion as remedy for impotence. T591.1.1
• Grateful animals; ungrateful man. A traveler saves a monkey, a snake, a tiger, and a jeweler from a pit. The monkey gives him fruit; the tiger a necklace of a princess he has killed. The jeweler accuses the rescuer before the king. The serpent saves him by biting the prince and then showing the man the proper remedy. W154.8
• Ungrateful Brahmin brings his wild goose rescuer to king as remedy against leprosy. W154.12.2