The constellation
T611 Suckling of children
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- Child nourished by sucking its own fingers · T611.1 entry
- Child miraculously suckled by his father · T611.2 entry
- Witch (fairy) suckles child · T611.3 entry
- Children magically prevented from suckling · T611.4 entry
- Child miraculously suckled by saint. (Cf. V211.1.8.1.) · T611.5 entry
- Milk magically appears in woman's breast so as to nourish orphan. (Cf. T592.) · T611.6 entry
- Abandoned child saved by seagulls; milk furnished by doe; angel brings bell as drinking utensil · T611.7 entry
- One woman suckles many babies · T611.8 entry
- Dead mother's breasts furnish sufficient nourishment for her baby during two years · T611.9 entry
- Man suckled by dog (wolf): called Mac Con (Son of Dog) · T611.10 entry
- Child nourished by sucking the eyeballs of snake-mother (frog-mother) who left it · T611.11 entry