μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
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Filed under Parturition.

1 finer motif beneath it
Prolonged labor: woman has childbirth pains for 100 days but is not delivered
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 sideChild removed from body of dead motherCesarean operation upon a woman at childbirth as a customPiglings cut from bodies of sows and rearedAfter-birth (placenta) becomes a demonHero is born by splitting mother's wombChild helps mother in severing his navel string

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