Child born with animal head

Motif

Child born with animal head.

Sex. · Conception and birth. · Monstrous births. · view the constellation · filed as T551.3

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

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.

general Type 711
general Christiansen Norske Eventyr 99.

Within the index

Filed under Child with extraordinary members (limbs).

4 finer motifs beneath it

Child with dog's head Child with hawk's head Monstrous birth: child with donkey's head Child with cow's head

Filed beside it

Child born without limbs Child born with two heads. (Cf. F551.0.2.1.)Boy born with one side flesh and one iron Child born half man, half fish Child born without mouth Child born with one ear Child born with caul (containing serpent)Child born with claws as result of curse by dying peddler murdered by its parents Monstrous birth – nine faces, nine arms, nine feet Birth of one-eyed child. (Cf. F512.1.)Child born with one leg Child born hairy Child with all of its organs out of place Child born blood-red

Carried in tale types

The Beautiful and the Ugly Twinsisters · ATU 7114 recorded variants

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