Child born of woman abandoned in pit

Motif

Child born of woman abandoned in pit.

Sex. · Conception and birth. · Childbirth. · view the constellation · filed as T581.2

Scholars’ trail — 1reference

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.

general Indonesian, Polynesian: Dixon 234 n. 43.

Within the index

Filed under Place and conditions of childbirth.

3 finer motifs beneath it

Child born to an apparently dead mother in her grave Blind wives fall into a pool where they give birth to children Children born in dungeon

Filed beside it

Birth of child in forest 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

Travels with

Cast-off wife abandoned in pit. (Cf. T581.2.)

wander