Birth through the mother's side — Mythoi

Motif

Birth through the mother's side.

Sex. · Conception and birth. · Childbirth. · view the constellation · filed as T584.1

Filed across the traditions

English Child I 83, II 309ff., 373ff.
Irish myth Cross
Egyptian Müller 390 n. 34
Persian Carnoy 290, 331
Hindu Keith 33
Haiti Alexander Lat. Am. 29
general *Hartland Primitive Paternity I 21
general Toldo I 340
general V 227ff.
general Malagasy: Sibree FLJ II 50
general Bakairi: ibid. 312.

Within the index

Filed under Parturition.

Filed beside it

Childbirth assisted by magic. (Cf. D1501.2.) Husband acts as midwife when no woman is available 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 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

Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)

Conception through mother's side. (Cf. T584.1.)

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