Place and conditions of childbirth — Mythoi

Motif

Place and conditions of childbirth.

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

Attested across traditions

North American Indigenous Tales of the North American Indians , Tale 44 receipt
North American Indigenous Tales of the North American Indians , Tale 45 receipt

Within the index

Filed under Childbirth.

11 finer motifs beneath it

Birth of child in forest 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

Filed beside it

Jewess must entreat Virgin before she can bear her child Precautions at childbirth Accompaniments of childbirth Parturition Precocious infant Multiple births Birth of twins. (Cf. T685.) Motifs associated with the placenta Childbirth – miscellaneous motifs

Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes

Resuscitation my frightening dead. Frequently combined with E61 Resuscitation by music Resuscitation by breathing on corpse Death thought sleep. Resuscitated person thinks he has been sleeping. He exclaims, "How long I have been asleep!" Door (gate) entrance to lower world Swallowed person becomes bald Cliff-ogre. Kicks victims over cliff Rectum snakes. Snakes which creep into living man and devour him Pot-tilter. Ogre who tilts a pot so that victims are drawn into it Sucking monster. Giant (sometimes a giant hall or cave) sucks in victims Man with fire moccasins. They set fire to surroundings Killing trees threaten hero

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