μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Child removed from body of dead mother.

Sex. · Conception and birth. · Childbirth. · view the constellation · filed as T584.2

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
Filed across the traditions
  • Irish myth *Cross
  • Icelandic Boberg
  • Greek Fox 286
  • India Thompson-Balys
  • Japanese Ikeda
  • 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 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 Birth through the mother's side 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.)
Child speaks from dead mother's womb. (Cf. T584.2.)

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