Birth trees. Spring forth as hero is born; act as life tokens, etc. (Cf. T589.7.1.)

Motif

Birth trees. Spring forth as hero is born; act as life tokens, etc. (Cf. T589.7.1.)

Sex. · Conception and birth. · Childbirth. · view the constellation · filed as T589.3

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.

Irish mythCross.
general Type 303
general Köhler-Bolte I 179
general Fb "træ" III 865b
general *Kittredge Arthur 171 n. 1

Within the index

Filed under Childbirth – miscellaneous motifs.

Filed beside it

Co-operative birth. Each of two wives bears a half-boy. They are placed together and form a real boy Boy cut in two: each half becomes a boy Birth with veil brings luck. (Cf. T552.5.1.)New-born child reincarnation of recently deceased person Where children come from. Explanations given to children Simultaneous births Woman strives to delay birth until auspicious day Child with several mothers. (Heimdal.)

Travels with

Simultaneous birth of (domestic) animal and child

wander