Dead mother's breasts furnish sufficient nourishment for her baby during two years

Motif

Dead mother's breasts furnish sufficient nourishment for her baby during two years.

Sex. · Care of children. · Nurture and growth of children. · view the constellation · filed as T611.9

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.

general *Loomis White Magic 108.

Within the index

Filed under Suckling of children.

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

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