Child born in answer to prayer — Mythoi

Motif

Child born in answer to prayer.

Sex. · Conception and birth. · Miraculous birth. · view the constellation · filed as T548.1

Filed across the traditions

Spanish Boggs FFC XC 77, 113 Nos. 650, 936
Italian Basile Pentamerone I No. 2
Jewish Neuman, Gaster Thespis 270f.
India *Thompson-Balys
Chinese Eberhard FFC CXX 76f.
Japanese Ikeda
Korean Zong in-Sob 1 No. 4, 171 f. No. 74
West Indies Flowers 578.
general *Prato RTP IV 177
general Toldo I 321 n. 1

Within the index

Filed under Birth obtained through magic or prayer.

1 finer motif beneath it

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

Filed beside it

Magic rites for obtaining a child Magic elixir to procure a child Charity rewarded by birth of child

Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)

Conception from wish. (Cf. T548.1.)

Carried in tale types

Prophecy Escaped · ATU 506* 1 recorded variant

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