μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Birth of child in forest.

Sex. · Conception and birth. · Childbirth. · view the constellation · filed as T581.1

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
Scholars’ trail — 3 references (open)

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.

  • Irish myth *Cross
  • Icelandic *Boberg.
  • general Dickson 168 n. 19
Within the index

Filed under Place and conditions of childbirth.

Filed beside it
Child born of woman abandoned in pit Child born in tree Child born in stable Child born during snowstorm Noise of battle precipitates birth Child born on flagstone Woman bears twins at end of footrace (with king's horses) Child born on beach Twins born in tent; mother abducted Boy is born in a wrapping of fine cloth

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