Seven children at a birth

Motif

Seven children at a birth.

Sex. · Conception and birth. · Childbirth. · view the constellation · filed as T586.1.2

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

IndicThe Mahābhārata, Book 12, Section XLIV
Vedic (Indian / Sanskrit)The Hymns of the Rigveda, 1.50
YorubaThe Yoruba-Speaking Peoples of the Slave Coast of West Africa, Chapter 9

Scholars’ trail — 5references

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.

IndiaThompson-Balys.
general *Fb "gifte" I 432
general *BP I 432
general Wesselski Märchen 174 No. 64
general *Loomis White Magic 87

Within the index

Filed under Many children at a birth.

2 finer motifs beneath it

King and queen have seven sons, all named Maine King has six (seven) sons, all named Lugaid

Filed beside it

Four children at a birth Nine children at a birth Five children at a birth for four successive years. All alive Forty sons born in one day

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