Birth from a tree

Motif

Birth from a tree.

Sex. · Conception and birth. · Miraculous birth. · view the constellation · filed as T543.1

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

ReferenceThe Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (abridged), Chapter LXVIILXVII. The External Soul in Folk-Custom
Depth CommentaryPsychology of the Unconscious: A Study of the Transformations and Symbolisms of the Libido, Part II — CHAPTER VIII
Literary CrystallizationMoby-Dick; or, The Whale, 41

Scholars’ trail — 3references

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.

GreekFox 198
ChineseEberhard FFC CXX 84
IndonesiaDeVries's list No. 159.

Within the index

Filed under Birth from plant.

Filed beside it

Twig, born of a woman, is planted and becomes a girl. (Cf. T555.)Birth from flower Birth from fruit Birth from fungus Birth from gourd Birth from grass (grain)Birth from vegetable

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