Birth from wound or abscess

Motif

Birth from wound or abscess.

Sex. · Conception and birth. · Miraculous birth. · view the constellation · filed as T541.2

Scholars’ trail — 5references

The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our shelf are live links; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.

OceanicDixon 113, 234 n. 44, 251 nn. 18–22
HaitiAlexander Lat. Am. 29
Africa*Werner 156f., 222.
general *Type 705
general Fb "orm" II 759b

Within the index

Filed under Birth from unusual part of person's body.

1 finer motif beneath it

Birth from wound or abscess on body of father

Filed beside it

Birth from blood Birth from tears Birth from person's head Birth from man's thigh Birth from an arm Birth from an eye Birth from secretions of the body Birth from contact of severed male genitals with ground Birth from semen thrown on ground Birth from lotus issuing from a god's navel Birth from nine mothers. (Cf. A112.5.)Birth from man's shoulder Birth through the ear Birth through the back Birth from knee

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