μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Fairy presides at child's birth. Sometimes the Norns, the Fates, etc.

Marvels. · Marvelous creatures. · Fairies and elves. · Fairies and mortals. · Fairies and human children. · view the constellation · filed as F312

Filed across the traditions
  • Japanese Ikeda.
  • general *Type 410
  • general BP I 439
  • general *W. B. McDaniel Conception, Birth and Infancy in Ancient Rome and Modern Italy (Coconut Grove, Florida, 1948). Icelandic: Nornagests þáttr (Bugge ed. 1864) 76, Corpus Poeticum Boreale I 131, *Boberg
Within the index

Filed under Fairies and human children.

3 finer motifs beneath it
Fairies bestow supernatural gifts at birth of a child Fairies control destinies of a mortal Three fairies sent to queen about to give birth to child
Filed beside it
Fairies adopt human child Fairies comb children's hair Fairy predicts birth of child Fairy lays curse on child. (Cf. F312.1.1.) Fairy predicts future greatness of newborn child

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