μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 2references

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.

  • IndiaThompson-Balys.
  • general Loomis White Magic 22
Within the index

Filed under Suckling of children.

Filed beside it
Child nourished by sucking its own fingersChild miraculously suckled by his fatherWitch (fairy) suckles childChildren magically prevented from sucklingChild miraculously suckled by saint. (Cf. V211.1.8.1.)Abandoned child saved by seagulls; milk furnished by doe; angel brings bell as drinking utensilOne woman suckles many babiesDead mother's breasts furnish sufficient nourishment for her baby during two yearsMan suckled by dog (wolf): called Mac Con (Son of Dog)Child nourished by sucking the eyeballs of snake-mother (frog-mother) who left it
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Milk suddenly appears in woman's dry breast

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