Motif
healing through confession to a wise female helper
healing_through_confession_to_a_wise_female_helper
A motif of the Sacred Knowledge and Wisdom family, within the sub-family Wisdom Teaching and Moral Instruction. 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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Heroic Romances of Ireland PAGE 12 / PAGE 13 / PAGE 14 / PAGE 15; lines 6619-6691 confidence: medium
Speaker E asks what ails the man, says she is a wise maiden, and asks what may benefit him so that she may work healing.
A maiden calls herself wise and asks the sick man to disclose anything beneficial so that his healing may be wrought by her.
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