Dwarfs have human woman as midwife — Mythoi

Motif

Dwarfs have human woman as midwife.

Marvels. · Marvelous creatures. · Spirits and demons. · Underground spirits. · view the constellation · filed as F451.5.5

Filed across the traditions

Danish Kristensen Danske Sagn I (1892) 330ff., (1928) 210ff.
Icelandic MacCulloch Eddic 272
Swiss Jegerlehner Oberwallis 308 No. 2, 326 No. 2
German Kahlo Harz. 54 No. 91.

Within the index

Filed under Dwarfs and human beings.

Filed beside it

Helpful dwarfs Malevolent dwarf Dwarfs are ancestors of mortals Mortal goes to land of dwarfs Dwarfs have mortal god-parent. (Cf. F420.5.3.3.) Dwarfs visit mortal's home Dwarfs associate with mortals Dwarfs and Christianity. (Cf. F420.5.3.4. and cross-references there given. Cf. also F451.9.1.6.) Business relations of dwarfs and mortals Dwarfs suffer abuses by mortals Dwarfs thwart efforts of mortals to get additional favors Dwarfs exact promise from mortals Dwarfs tease mortals Dwarfs give riddles and questions to mortals Dwarfs dislike human vices Dwarfs invisibly attend wedding or christening feasts of mortals. (Cf. F451.3.3.8.)

Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)

Water-spirit calls human midwife. (Cf. F372.1, F451.3.5.5, F451.5.5.)

Carried in tale types

Midwife in the Underworld · ATU 476** 1 recorded variant

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