Curse: monstrous birth — Mythoi

Motif

Curse: monstrous birth.

Ordaining the future. · Curses. · Curses on persons. · view the constellation · filed as M437

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Filed under Curses on persons.

2 finer motifs beneath it

Curse: "What I carry may you carry; what you carry may I carry." Cat thus causes ungrateful pregnant woman to bear cats and herself to bear twin girls Jealous sisters curse the child one of them may have by the god Thor, so that it never will grow nor thrive

Filed beside it

Curse: bodily injury Curse: to be carried off by evil spirit Endless sleep given Endymion Curse: to be swallowed by a siren Curse: not to taste food from own table. Food always seized by harpies Curse: prince to fall in love with witch's daughter Curse: humiliation Curse: failure in all undertakings Curse: deformity Curse: privation Curse of childlessness Giant cursed: may neither heaven nor earth receive him Curse: undertaking dangerous quest Curse: to sink into the earth Curse: death Curse: insanity

Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)

Monstrous births as punishment for girl's pride. (Cf. M437, Q331, T550.)

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