Birth obtained through magic or prayer

Motif

Birth obtained through magic or prayer.

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

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.

Buddhist mythMalalasekera II 1163, 1258
S. Am. Indian (Inca)Rowe BBAE CXLIII (2) 318.

Within the index

Filed under Miraculous birth.

4 finer motifs beneath it

Child born in answer to prayer Magic rites for obtaining a child Magic elixir to procure a child Charity rewarded by birth of child

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 plant Birth from mineral Birth from ground Birth from water Birth from virgin Miraculous birth – miscellaneous

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