Many children at a birth — Mythoi

Motif

Many children at a birth.

Sex. · Conception and birth. · Childbirth. · view the constellation · filed as T586.1

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

Filed across the traditions

Jewish *Neuman
India Thompson-Balys
Buddhist myth Malalasekera I 420
Chinese Eberhard FFC CXX 200f.
N. Am. Indian *Thompson Tales 310 n. 116a
S. Am. Indian (Chibcha) Alexander Lat. Am. 199.
general BP I 432
general Köhler-Bolte I 467

Within the index

Filed under Multiple births.

5 finer motifs beneath it

Four children at a birth Seven 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

Filed beside it

Extraordinary number of children in family Multiple birth as result of relations with several men. (Cf. T587.1.) Extraordinary number of animals at birth Extraordinarily frequent childbirth

Carried in tale types

Woman with Three Hundred and Sixty-five Children · ATU 762 1 recorded variant

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