μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Childbirth assisted by angel.

Sex. · Conception and birth. · Childbirth. · view the constellation · filed as T584.0.4

Filed across the traditions
  • Irish myth Cross.
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Filed under Parturition.

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Childbirth assisted by magic. (Cf. D1501.2.) Husband acts as midwife when no woman is available Birth of holy person painless 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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