Couvade. Father goes into confinement at time of childbirth

Motif

Couvade. Father goes into confinement at time of childbirth.

Sex. · Conception and birth. · Childbirth. · view the constellation · filed as T583.1

Scholars’ trail — 7references

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.

MelanesiaCodrington 228ff.
general *Encyc. Religion Ethics II 635b
general *Ploss Das Kind I 125
general Bouwman Revue Anthropologique XXV 49ff., Lévy-Bruhl L'âme primitive 225ff.
general Hdwb. d. Abergl. V 1573
general Grimm Deutsche Rechtsalterthümer I 106. Irish myth: *Cross
general Latin American: Alexander Lat. Am. 37f.

Within the index

Filed under Accompaniments of childbirth.

3 finer motifs beneath it

Husband goes into seclusion at wife's pregnancy Couvade imposed on man during wife's menstruation Pains of woman in childbirth repeated in person of the man

Filed beside it

Calamities at birth of hero King leaves bell with his wife for her to ring so he will know when her child is born

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