The Medicine Man
The _rôle_ of the Medicine Man, or Doctor in Fertility Ritual. Its
importance and antiquity. The _Rig-Veda_ poem. Classical evidence, Mr
F. Cornford. Traces of Medicine Man in the Grail romances. Gawain as
Healer. Persistent tradition. Possible survival from pre-literary form.
Evidence of the _Triads_. Peredur as Healer. Evolution of theme. _Le
Dist de l’Erberie_.