μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Couvade. Father goes into confinement at time of childbirth.

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

Filed across the traditions
  • Melanesia Codrington 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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