Husband acts as midwife when no woman is available — Mythoi

Motif

Husband acts as midwife when no woman is available.

Sex. · Conception and birth. · Childbirth. · view the constellation · filed as T584.0.2

Cited in the index

general Boje 125ff.

Within the index

Filed under Parturition.

Filed beside it

Childbirth assisted by magic. (Cf. D1501.2.) Birth of holy person painless Childbirth assisted by angel While saint's mother was giving birth to the child, she grasps a stout rod which roots and becomes a sturdy tree Childbirth assisted by sacred stone Birth through the mother's side Child removed from body of dead mother Cesarean operation upon a woman at childbirth as a custom Piglings cut from bodies of sows and reared Extraordinarily long labor at childbirth After-birth (placenta) becomes a demon Hero is born by splitting mother's womb Child helps mother in severing his navel string

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