Precocious hero leaves cradle to go to war

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Precocious hero leaves cradle to go to war.

Sex. · Conception and birth. · Childbirth. · view the constellation · filed as T585.7

Scholars’ trail — 2references

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 mythCross
IcelandicBoberg.

Within the index

Filed under Precocious infant.

Filed beside it

Child born full (nearly) grown 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 Child stands (walks) at birth Child born circumcised

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