Birth from plant

Motif

Birth from plant.

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

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

Hermetic / AlchemicalThrice-Greatest Hermes, Volume I: Prolegomena, Chapter XIII: Plato: Concerning Metempsychosis
ReferenceThe Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (abridged), Chapter LXVIILXVII. The External Soul in Folk-Custom
Literary CrystallizationParadise Lost: A Poem in Twelve Books, Book 9
YorubaThe Yoruba-Speaking Peoples of the Slave Coast of West Africa, Chapter 7
Greco-RomanPausanias's Description of Greece, Book 2

Scholars’ trail — 2references

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.

JapaneseIkeda
Africa (Gold Coast)Barker and Sinclair 77 No. 12, (Ekoi): Talbot 133ff., (Ibo, Nigeria): Thomas 76.

Within the index

Filed under Miraculous birth.

8 finer motifs beneath it

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

Filed beside it

Supernatural birth of saints Birth from unusual part of person's body Birth of human being from an egg. (Cf. F611.1.11.)Birth from mineral Birth from ground Birth from water Birth from virgin Birth obtained through magic or prayer Miraculous birth – miscellaneous

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