μῦθοι Mythoi
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Hateful or lovely child to be born first? Childless parents' prayer answered: they are to have two children, one hateful, one lovely. Choice as to which is to come first.

Sex. · Conception and birth. · Miraculous birth. · view the constellation · filed as T548.1.1

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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.

  • general Köhler-Bolte I 520ff.
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Filed under Child born in answer to prayer.

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