Magic prevention of childbirth.
Sex. · Conception and birth. · Pregnancy. · view the constellation · filed as T572.1
Motif
Filed across the traditions
- Irish myth *Cross.
- general *Type 755
- general *Hauffen Zs. f. Vksk. X 436ff.
- general *Kittredge Witchcraft 113f., 442f. nn. 79–84
- general *Fb "sten" III 554a
Carried in tale types
- Sin and Grace · ATU 755 4 recorded variants
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