μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 15references

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.

  • India*Thompson-Balys
  • JapaneseIkeda
  • Philippine (Tinguian)Cole 95, 98
  • MaoriDixon 60
  • BatakVoorhoeve 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 IndiesFlowers 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 childbirthShort pregnancyLong pregnancy. Delayed by an enemy who bewitches the motherChild speaks before birth. (Cf. A511.1.2.)Prenatal influencesFetus exchanged from one woman to anotherPregnant manPregnancy – miscellaneous motifs

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