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Healing See also Medicine. Achilles’ spear had power to heal whatever wound it made. [Gk. Lit.: Iliad] Augeas’ daughter; noted for skill in using herbs for healing. [Gk. Myth.: Zimmerman, 11] possessed apple of Samarkand; cure for all diseases. [Arab. Lit.: Arabian Nights] cripple cured by accompanying Magi to the Christ child. [Am. Opera: Amahl and the Night Visitors, Benét, 28] Lord’s disciple restores Saul’s vision. [N.T.: Acts 9:17 19] metaphorical cure for sins of the Israelites. [O.T.: Jeremiah 8:22] Jerusalem pool, believed to have curative powers. [N.T.: John 5:2–4] Indian talisman to prevent cholera. [Ind. Myth.: Jobes, 369] cures madness; stanches blood from wound. [Gem Symbolism: Kunz, 68] relieves diseases of the eye. [Gem Symbolism: Kunz, 370] he makes blind beggars see. [N.T.: Matthew 9:27–31, 20:31–34; Mark 10:46–52; Luke 18:35–43; John 9:1—34]
said to remedy blindness and cataracts. [Herb Symbolism; Flora Symbolica, 164] |
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| It was the healing of a fourteen-year-old boy, whose mother brought him to Father Sergius insisting that he should lay his hand on the child's head. The Wolf, being thus fearfully mauled, said, "I am rightly served, for why did I attempt the art of healing, when my father only taught me the trade of a butcher? Well,' answered the first raven, 'my eyes are in no want of this healing bath, for, Heaven be praised, they are as good as ever they were; but my wing has been very feeble and weak ever since it was shot by an arrow many years ago, so let us fly at once to the lake that I may be restored to health and strength again. |
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