μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 3references

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.

  • Irish mythCross
  • JewishNeuman.
  • general Loomis White Magic 16, 20
Within the index

Filed under Parturition.

Filed beside it
Childbirth assisted by magic. (Cf. D1501.2.)Husband acts as midwife when no woman is availableChildbirth assisted by angelWhile saint's mother was giving birth to the child, she grasps a stout rod which roots and becomes a sturdy treeChildbirth assisted by sacred stoneBirth through the mother's sideChild removed from body of dead motherCesarean operation upon a woman at childbirth as a customPiglings cut from bodies of sows and rearedExtraordinarily long labor at childbirthAfter-birth (placenta) becomes a demonHero is born by splitting mother's wombChild helps mother in severing his navel string

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