Birth through the mother's side

Motif

Birth through the mother's side.

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

Scholars’ trail — 11references

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.

EnglishChild I 83, II 309ff., 373ff.
Irish mythCross
EgyptianMüller 390 n. 34
PersianCarnoy 290, 331
HinduKeith 33
HaitiAlexander 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

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

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