Woman strives to delay birth until auspicious day — Mythoi

Motif

Woman strives to delay birth until auspicious day.

Sex. · Conception and birth. · Childbirth. · view the constellation · filed as T589.8

Filed across the traditions

Irish myth *Cross.
general Loomis White Magic 20f.

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 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 Where children come from. Explanations given to children Simultaneous births Child with several mothers. (Heimdal.)

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