Motif
healing skin of a wondrous animal
healing_skin_of_a_wondrous_animal
A motif of the Sacred Treasures and Power Objects family, within the sub-family Healing Objects and Restorative Tokens. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
celtic irish
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Gods and Fighting Men CHAPTER II. THE REIGN OF BRES / BOOK TWO: LUGH OF THE LONG HAND. / CHAPTER I. THE COMING OF LUGH / CHAPTER II. THE SONS OF TUIREANN; lines 1565-1661 confidence: high
Lugh says the pig skin of Tuis, King of Greece, heals wounds and sickness; the pig turned streams of water into wine for nine days, healed wounds it touched, and was skinned after Druids said the virtue was in the skin.
The pig skin of Tuis heals wounds and sickness, and the pig from which it came also healed wounds and changed streams of water into wine.
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