μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Unreasonable demands of pregnant women.

Sex. · Conception and birth. · Pregnancy. · view the constellation · filed as T571

Filed across the traditions
  • India *Thompson-Balys
  • Japanese Ikeda
  • Philippine (Tinguian) Cole 95, 98
  • Maori Dixon 60
  • Batak Voorhoeve 141
  • Eskimo (Greenland) Rasmussen III 51
  • Africa (Ekoi) Talbot 374, (Angola): Chatelain 83 No. 4, (Ila, Rhodesia): Smith and Dale II 414 No. 13
  • West Indies Flowers 578.
  • general *Penzer I 97 n. 1, 221ff., II 31, III 60, V 127 n. 2, VII 201, IX 144
  • general Cowell Jātaka Index s. v. "pregnancy"
  • general *M. Bloomfield in Penzer VII vii, JAOS XL 1
  • general Child II 408f., 414
  • general Loomis White Magic 20. Irish: MacCulloch Celtic 176, *Cross
  • general Indonesian, Polynesian: ibid 233 n. 42
  • general Sumatran: ibid. 161
Within the index

Filed under Pregnancy.

Filed beside it
Prevention of childbirth Short pregnancy Long pregnancy. Delayed by an enemy who bewitches the mother Child speaks before birth. (Cf. A511.1.2.) Prenatal influences Fetus exchanged from one woman to another Pregnant man Pregnancy – miscellaneous motifs

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