The constellation
T581 Place and conditions of childbirth
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The same sky, in words
filed under
- Childbirth · T580 entry
beneath it
- Birth of child in forest · T581.1 entry
- Child born of woman abandoned in pit · T581.2 entry
- Child born in tree · T581.3 entry
- Child born in stable · T581.4 entry
- Child born during snowstorm · T581.5 entry
- Noise of battle precipitates birth · T581.6 entry
- Child born on flagstone · T581.7 entry
- Woman bears twins at end of footrace (with king's horses) · T581.8 entry
- Child born on beach · T581.9 entry
- Twins born in tent; mother abducted · T581.10 entry
- Boy is born in a wrapping of fine cloth · T581.11 entry
keeps company
- Death thought sleep. Resuscitated person thinks he has been sleeping. He exclaims, "How long I have been asleep!" · E175 entry
- Resuscitation my frightening dead. Frequently combined with E61 · E25 entry
- Resuscitation by music · E55 entry
- Resuscitation by breathing on corpse · E66 entry
- Door (gate) entrance to lower world · F91 entry
- Swallowed person becomes bald · F921 entry
- Cliff-ogre. Kicks victims over cliff · G321 entry
- Rectum snakes. Snakes which creep into living man and devour him · G328 entry
- Pot-tilter. Ogre who tilts a pot so that victims are drawn into it · G331 entry
- Sucking monster. Giant (sometimes a giant hall or cave) sucks in victims · G332 entry
attested in
- Tales of the North American Indians · Tale 44
- Tales of the North American Indians · Tale 45