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Motif

Barrenness or impotence induced by magic.

Sex. · Conception and birth. · Conception and birth – miscellaneous motifs. · view the constellation · filed as T591

Filed across the traditions
  • Irish myth *Cross
  • Icelandic Boberg
  • India *Thompson-Balys.
  • general *Kittredge Witchcraft 113, 441 n. 78
  • general *Boje 107
Within the index

Filed under Conception and birth – miscellaneous motifs.

2 finer motifs beneath it
Magic remedies for barrenness or impotence. (Cf. D1347, D1925, D2161.3.11.) Unlucky for a woman to look on the face of a childless person
Filed beside it
Milk suddenly appears in woman's dry breast Sign hung out informing brothers whether mother has borne boy or girl Naming of children Ambitions of father transferred to child at moment of conception
Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)
Sterility as punishment. (Cf. T591.)

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