Child miraculously suckled by saint. (Cf. V211.1.8.1.) — Mythoi

Motif

Child miraculously suckled by saint. (Cf. V211.1.8.1.)

Sex. · Care of children. · Nurture and growth of children. · view the constellation · filed as T611.5

Filed across the traditions

Irish myth *Cross.

Within the index

Filed under Suckling of children.

3 finer motifs beneath it

Saint has two paps – a pap with milk and a pap with honey: with these he suckles two infants Saint feeds children by cutting off cow's teats and pouring milk into them Children miraculously suckled by angel

Filed beside it

Child nourished by sucking its own fingers Child miraculously suckled by his father Witch (fairy) suckles child Children magically prevented from suckling Milk magically appears in woman's breast so as to nourish orphan. (Cf. T592.) Abandoned child saved by seagulls; milk furnished by doe; angel brings bell as drinking utensil One woman suckles many babies Dead mother's breasts furnish sufficient nourishment for her baby during two years Man suckled by dog (wolf): called Mac Con (Son of Dog) Child nourished by sucking the eyeballs of snake-mother (frog-mother) who left it

Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)

Christ in form of an infant nursed by saint

ask the rhapsode about this motif · search the shelf for “miraculously” · wander