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Thompson B512 — Medicine shown by animal

B512
Thompson motif reference
B
Animal Motifs
3
Associated ATU tale types
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Description

Motif

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.)—*Type 160, 303, 590, 612; *BP I 128; Chauvin II 106 No. 71; Kittredge Gawain 153 n. 4; Wesselski Märchen 239f. No. 50.—*Krappe Papers and Trans. of Jubilee Cong. of Folk-Lore Soc. 277ff.—*Fb "blad" IV 44a; *Frazer Apollodorus I 312 n. 2.—Icel.: Boberg, Völsunga saga ch. 8.; Jewish: Neuman; India: *Thompson-Balys; Japanese: Ikeda. N. A. Indian: Thompson Tales 354 n. 279.

Associated ATU tale types

Concordance

These links are derived from the Thompson motif references stored in the Folklore Database's ATU concordance.

ATUTitle
ATU 303 The Twin Brothers,
ATU 590 The Prince and the Bracelets
ATU 612 The Three Snake-Leaves
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← B511.5.1 — Vulture cures blindness




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