μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
Scholars’ trail — 10references

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 myth*Cross
  • IcelandicBoberg
  • GreekFox 286
  • IndiaThompson-Balys
  • JapaneseIkeda
  • Oceanic*Dixon 132 n. 4
  • N. Am. Indian*Thompson Tales 324 n. 166i
  • S. Am. Indian (Yuracare)Alexander Lat. Am. 314, Métraux RMLP XXXIII 144, (Karib): ibid. 147, (Tupinamba): Métraux BBAE CXLIII (3) 132.
  • general *Schoepperle 280 n. 2
  • general Loomis White Magic 21
Within the index

Filed under Parturition.

1 finer motif beneath it
Child born of dead mother in grave
Filed beside it
Childbirth assisted by magic. (Cf. D1501.2.)Husband acts as midwife when no woman is availableBirth of holy person painlessChildbirth 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 sideCesarean 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
Travels with
Child speaks from dead mother's womb. (Cf. T584.2.)

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