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Motif-Index of Folk-Literature
B505.1. Magic object received from animal brother-in-law. *Type 552. — N. A. Indian (Micmac): Thompson CColl II 409ff.
B314. Helpful animal brothers-in-law.
B505.2. Animal tells hero where to find magic object. (Cf. B560.) — French Canadian: Sister Marie Ursule.
B505.3. Magic song received from fish. (Cf. B470.) — Chinese: Graham.
B510. Healing by animals.
D1342. Magic object gives health. D1500. Magic object controls disease. D2161. Magic healing power. F950. Marvelous cures.
B511. Animal as healer.
B511.1. Snake as healer. *Chauvin VII 25 No. 373 F note 5; *Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 648; Jewish: Neuman; India: Thompson-Balys.
B491.1. Helpful serpent.
B511.1.1. Snake creeps into man's mouth and heals him. Estonian: Aarne FFC XXV 132 No. 78; Finnish: Aarne FFC XXXIII 46 No. 78.
B511.1.2. Snake heals mutilated maiden with magic herbs. Italian Novella: Rotunda.
B511.1.3. Helpful hedgehog forces snake to suck out poison from bitten raja. India: Thompson-Balys.
B511.2. Pig as healer.
B183. Magic boar (pig).
B511.2.1. Magic pig heals wound its skin touches. Irish myth: Cross.
B183.9. Skin of magic pig heals wounds.
B511.2.2. Magic pig heals wounds by licking. Irish myth: Cross.
B511.3. Faithful horse pushes sleep thorn out of its master's head, so that he awakes. Icel.: Boberg.
D1364.2. Sleep-thorn. D1978.3. Waking from magic sleep by removal of enchanting instrument.
B511.4. Rat cures man of wound. S. A. Indian (Cashinawa): Métraux BBAE 143 III 685.
B511.5. Bird heals man. Chinese-Persian: Coyajee JPASB XXIV 185f.; Alu: Wheeler 60; Papua: Ker 103.
B511.5.1. Vulture cures blindness. India: Thompson-Balys.
B512. 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, Volsunga saga ch. 8.; Jewish: Neuman; India: *Thompson-Balys; Japanese: Ikeda. N. A. Indian: Thompson Tales 354 n. 279.
D955. Magic leaf. D965. Magic plant. D1500.1.18. Magic healing water. D1505.5. Magic water restores sight. E80. Water of life. E105. Resuscitation by herbs (leaves). E181. Means of resuscitation learned. N452. Secret remedy overheard in conversation of animals (witches). W154.8. Grateful animals; ungrateful man.
