Precautions at childbirth — Mythoi

Motif

Precautions at childbirth.

Sex. · Conception and birth. · Childbirth. · view the constellation · filed as T582

Filed across the traditions

Irish myth Cross.
general *Penzer II 166ff.
general *McDaniel Conception. Birth and Infancy (Miami, 1948)
general *H. Am. Winkler Salomo und die Karina: eine orientalische Legende von der Bezwingung einer Kindbettdämonin (Stuttgart, 1931)

Within the index

Filed under Childbirth.

4 finer motifs beneath it

Avoidance of evil spirits at childbirth All locks in house to be shot during childbirth Knots to be untied at childbirth. Particularly knots in the woman's clothes Knife (other sharp instrument) as childbirth precaution

Filed beside it

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

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