Conception from eating — Mythoi

Motif

Conception from eating.

Sex. · Conception and birth. · Miraculous conception. · view the constellation · filed as T511

Attested across traditions

North American Indigenous Tales of the North American Indians , Tale 45 receipt

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

Buddhist The Jataka, or Stories of the Buddha's Former Births , Book III
Depth Commentary Primitive Culture: Researches into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Language, Art, and Custom , Chapter XII

Filed across the traditions

Jewish Neuman, Gaster Oldest Stories 84
Egyptian Müller 115
Indonesia Dixon 236
Koryak Jochelson JE VI 324, 380
Eskimo (Greenland) Rink 437, 444, (Bering Strait): Nelson RBAE XVIII 461, (Aleut): Golder JAFL XVIII 85, (Cumberland Sound): Boas BAM XV 243
N. Am. Indian *Thompson Tales 323 n. 166h
general *BP I 544
general *Hartland Perseus I 71ff.
general Hdwb. d. Abergl. II 1032
general Frobenius Zeitalter des Sonnengottes I 236ff., 250ff.
general *Toldo I 337. Irish myth: *Cross
general S. Am. Indian (Central Brazil): Ehrenreich Int. Cong. Americanists XIV 661.

Within the index

Filed under Miraculous conception.

9 finer motifs beneath it

Queen and maidservant conceive from eating same food. Their sons are like brothers. (Cf. P311.4.) Conception from eating a fruit. (Cf. F611.1.8.) Conception from eating plant Conception from eating vegetable Conception from eating flower Conception from eating animal Conception from eating parts of human being Conception from eating food Conception from eating – miscellaneous

Filed beside it

Conception from drinking Conception from wish. (Cf. T548.1.) Conception after reciprocal desire for each other Impregnation through glance Conception through dream Conception from extraordinary intercourse Conception from divine impregnation Conception from sunlight Conception from falling rain Conception from bathing. (Cf. D1788.) Conception from wind. (Cf. A715.2, F611.1.9.) Conception from falling star Conception because of prayer Magic impregnation by use of charm (amulet) Impregnation by thunder (lightning) Conception from casual contact with man

Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)

Rejuvenation by being reborn. Man in fish form eaten and reborn. (Cf. T511.)

Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes

Spine test. Attempt to kill hero by throwing him on sharp spine or spike Deceiver in swinging contest killed. Old woman planning to kill hero in swinging game by cutting rope is killed when hero cuts the rope first Miraculous conception Conception from falling rain Conception from casual contact with man Miraculous birth Birth of human being from an egg. (Cf. F611.1.11.) Child born in a jug (jar) Pregnant man Place and conditions of childbirth

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