Child with several mothers. (Heimdal.)

Motif

Child with several mothers. (Heimdal.)

Sex. · Conception and birth. · Childbirth. · view the constellation · filed as T589.9

Scholars’ trail — 1reference

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.

IcelandicMacCulloch Eddic 153.

Within the index

Filed under Childbirth – miscellaneous motifs.

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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 Woman strives to delay birth until auspicious day

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