Where children come from. Explanations given to children

Motif

Where children come from. Explanations given to children.

Sex. · Conception and birth. · Childbirth. · view the constellation · filed as T589.6

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

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.

general Hdwb. d. Abergl. IV 1342ff.
general v. Wlislocki Germania N. R. XXII 134ff.

Within the index

Filed under Childbirth – miscellaneous motifs.

6 finer motifs beneath it

Children brought by the stork Children brought by midwife Children said to come from underworld Children said to come from a well Children said to come from cauliflower Children said to come from stones

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 trees. Spring forth as hero is born; act as life tokens, etc. (Cf. T589.7.1.)Birth with veil brings luck. (Cf. T552.5.1.)New-born child reincarnation of recently deceased person Simultaneous births Woman strives to delay birth until auspicious day Child with several mothers. (Heimdal.)

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