μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Child born full (nearly) grown.

Sex. · Conception and birth. · Childbirth. · view the constellation · filed as T585.1

Filed across the traditions
  • Persian Carnoy 287
  • Jewish Neuman
  • India *Thompson-Balys
  • Korean Zong in-Sob 5 No. 2
  • Hawaii Beckwith Myth 230
  • Africa (Ekoi) Talbot 126, (Fjort): Dennett 60 No. 12, (Zulu): *Callaway 9
  • Cape Verde Islands Parsons MAFLS XV (1) 352.
  • general *Ranke FFC CXIV 156
  • general S. Am. Indian (Aztec): Alexander Lat. Am. 60, (Inca): Rowe BBAE CXLIII (2) 318, (Chiriguano): Métraux RMLP XXXIII 161, 166, (Karib): ibid. 147
Within the index

Filed under Precocious infant.

1 finer motif beneath it
Child stronger than mother on day of birth
Filed beside it
Child speaks at birth. (Cf. T575.1.) Infant born blind immediately drowns self Infant saint rebukes mother's impiety Child born with all his teeth Newborn child kisses dying mother Precocious hero leaves cradle to go to war Child stands (walks) at birth Child born circumcised

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