Birth from secretions of the body

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Birth from secretions of the body.

Sex. · Conception and birth. · Miraculous birth. · view the constellation · filed as T541.8

Scholars’ trail — 1reference

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.

N. Am. Indian*Thompson Tales 323 n. 166b.

Within the index

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

3 finer motifs beneath it

Birth from excrement Birth from spittle. (Cf. T533.)Birth from mucus from the nose

Filed beside it

Birth from blood Birth from wound or abscess Birth from tears Birth from person's head Birth from man's thigh Birth from an arm Birth from an eye 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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