μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Twins quarrel before birth in mother's womb.

Sex. · Conception and birth. · Pregnancy. · view the constellation · filed as T575.1.3

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“Me- λάμπους δὲ ὁ ᾿Αμυθάονος καὶ Εἰδομένης τῆς Ἄβαντος, μάντις ὧν καὶ τὴν διὰ φαρμάκων καὶ καθαρμῶν θεραπείαν πρῶτος εὑρηκώς, ὑπισχνεῖται εραπεύειν τὰς παρθένους, εἰ λάβοι τὸ τρίτον μέρος τῆς δυναστείας. οὐκ ἐπιτρέποντος δὲ Προίτου θεραπεύειν ἐπὶ μισθοῖς τηλικούτοις, ἔτι μᾶλλον ἐμαίνοντο αἱ παρθένοι καὶ προσέτι μετὰ τούτων αἱ λοιπαὶ γυναῖκες" καὶ γὰρ αὗται τὰς οἰκίας ἀπολιποῦσαι τοὺς ἰδίους ἀπώλλυον παῖδας καὶ εἰς τὴν ἐρημίαν ἐφοίτων.…”

The Library (Bibliotheca), BOOK II, ch. II · served from our shelf uncorrected OCR — being verified against the scan

On our shelf — the index’s citations, resolved to served chapters
Scholars’ trail — 4references

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.

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Filed under Child speaks in mother's womb.

Filed beside it
Child in mother's womb reveals crimeFuture suicide weeps in mother's wombFuture poet chants spell in mother's wombChildren in mothers' wombs praise God at birth of ChristChild in mother's belly guides her
Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes
Madness as punishment. (Cf. D2065.)

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