the sickly old man (Chapter 032)

Role: teacher of the secrets for curing disease · First appears: Origin Of Medicine

Life events

The woman prepared herbs as directed and healed the sickly old man.(Origin Of Medicine · 📍 Indian village)
- With: the kind-hearted woman (Chapter 032)
- “Then she was instructed by the old man to go in search of certain herbs, which she prepared according to his directions, and through their efficacy he was soon healed.”
The woman treated the old man’s fever with herbs and healed him again.(Origin Of Medicine)
- With: the kind-hearted woman (Chapter 032)
- “A few days after, he sickened with a fever and again commanded a search for other herbs and was again healed.”
The old man declared the woman endowed with the secrets for curing every form of disease.(Origin Of Medicine)
- With: the kind-hearted woman (Chapter 032)
- “Then he commanded that she should treasure up this secret. A few days after, he sickened with a fever and again commanded a search for other herbs and was again healed. This being many times repeated he at last told his benefactress that his mission was accomplished, and that she was now endowed with all the secrets for curing disease in all its forms,”

pupil: the kind-hearted woman (Chapter 032) (He later gives her the secrets for curing disease.) “Then she was instructed by the old man to go in search of certain herbs, which she prepared according to his directions, and through their efficacy he was soon healed.”

Extracted from the original text of Myths of the Iroquois. Made with Rho MD.