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.

  • Jewish*Neuman
  • PersianCarnoy 335
  • India*Thompson-Balys
  • Africa (Angola)Chatelain 85 No. 5, (Kaffir): Theal 89, (Zulu): Callaway 6.
  • general *Chauvin VII 112 No. 379bis n. 1, VIII 63 No. 27
  • general *Fb "ufødt" III 962a
  • general **Colson "L'enfant qui parle avant d'être né" Mélusine V No. 2
  • general Gaidoz Mélusine IV No. 10
  • general *Toldo I 338f.
  • general DeVries FFC LXXIII 322, 325f.
  • general Hdwb. d. Märchens I 102, 520
  • general Child III 367 nn., IV 507a, V 298a
  • general Krappe Zeitschrift für deutsches Altertum LXXII (1935) 161–71
  • general Saintyves Saints Successeurs 253. – Irish: MacCulloch Celtic 207, *Cross
  • general S. Am. Indian (Aztec): Alexander Lat. Am. 60, (Tupinamba): Métraux RMLP XXXIII 133, (Warrau): ibid. 145
Within the index

Filed under Child speaks before birth. (Cf. A511.1.2.)

6 finer motifs beneath it
Child in mother's womb reveals crimeFuture suicide weeps in mother's wombTwins quarrel before birth 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
Filed beside it
Woman talks to her child before it is conceivedChild speaks from dead mother's womb. (Cf. T584.2.)Child in mother's womb visible from outside
Travels with
Woman cries out on beholding man her unborn child is destined to slay. (Cf. T575.1.)Child speaks at birth. (Cf. T575.1.)
Carried in tale types

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