Barrenness or impotence induced by magic

Motif

Barrenness or impotence induced by magic.

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

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 myth*Cross
IcelandicBoberg
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

Sterility as punishment. (Cf. T591.)

wander