Multiple birth as result of relations with several men. (Cf. T587.1.)

Motif

Multiple birth as result of relations with several men. (Cf. T587.1.)

Sex. · Conception and birth. · Childbirth. · view the constellation · filed as T586.3

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
general S. Am. Indian (Tenetehara): Wagley-Galvao BBAE CXLIII (3) 148, (Kaigua, Tembé, Apapocuvá-guarani): Métraux RMLP XXXIII 136.

Within the index

Filed under Multiple births.

2 finer motifs beneath it

Woman ravished by three brothers bears triplets Triplets killed by tribe at birth

Filed beside it

Many children at a birth Extraordinary number of children in family Extraordinary number of animals at birth Extraordinarily frequent childbirth

Travels with

Birth of twins an indication of unfaithfulness in wife. (Cf. T586.3.)

wander