Many children at a birth

Motif

Many children at a birth.

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

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

Scholars’ trail — 8references

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.

Jewish*Neuman
IndiaThompson-Balys
Buddhist mythMalalasekera I 420
ChineseEberhard 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 7621 recorded variant

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