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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