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• Child born with one leg. T551.12
• Child born hairy. T551.13
• Child born with long hair. T551.13.1
• Child born with long beard. T551.13.2
• Child with all of its organs out of place. T551.14
• Child born blood-red. T551.15
• Child born bearing an object. T552
• Girl born with red string around neck. T552.1
• Child born with snake around neck. T552.2
• Child born bearing lizard in each hand. T552.2.1
• Child born holding worm (in each hand). T552.2.2
• Child born carrying knife and calabash. T552.3
• Child born carrying handful of hair. T552.4
• Child born with complete armor. T552.5
• Child born wearing helmet. T552.5.1
• Child born with magic iron bow. T552.5.2
• Child born with knife and shield. T552.5.3
• Child born carrying a stone. T552.6
• Child born wearing jewel. T552.7
• Daughter born with a feathered parka. T552.8
• Thumbling born as result of hasty wish of parents. They wish for a child, no matter how small he may be. T553
• Woman gives birth to animal. T554
• Woman transformed to animal bears animal. (Cf. T578.2.) T554.0.1
• Tiger, spirit, and man sons of one mother. T554.1
• Woman bears dog. T554.2
• Woman bears crane. T554.3
• Woman bears monkey. T554.4
• Woman bears tortoise (turtle). T554.5
• Woman bears goat. T554.6
• Woman gives birth to a snake. T554.7
• Woman bears frog. T554.8
• Woman gives birth to toad. T554.8.1
• Woman bears three pigs. T554.9
• Woman gives birth to a bird. T554.10
• Supernaturally impregnated woman gives birth to dragon. T554.11
• Woman gives birth to a plant. (Cf. T543.0.1.) T555
• Woman gives birth to a fruit. Can transform itself to girl. T555.1
• Woman gives birth to pumpkin. T555.1.1
• Queen gives birth to a gourd. T555.2
• Woman gives birth to a demon. T556
• Child born with viper in heart (body). T557
• Child born in a jug (jar). T561
• Child born in conch shell. T561.1
• Child born in a furnace. T561.2
• Child born in a bag. T561.3
• Child born in pot. T561.4
• White woman bears black child. T562
• Birthmarks. T563
• Child of three fathers born with three stripes. T563.1
• Child formed of clot of gore has red birthmark. (Cf. T541.1.1.) T563.2
• Child born with figure of serpent on his body. T563.3
• Tattoo on newly born baby's back telling who was his former incarnation. T563.4
• Woman lays an egg. (Cf. T542.) T565
• Human son of animal parents. T566
• Monstrous births – miscellaneous. T569
• Queen delivered of a piece of flesh; abandoned and saved, it gradually separates into forms of boy and girl. T569.1
• Woman gives birth to grinding-stone. T569.2
• Pregnancy. T570
• Unreasonable demands of pregnant women. T571
• Prevention of childbirth. T572
• Magic prevention of childbirth. T572.1
• Mother sits on stone to prevent premature birth. T572.1.1
• Abortion. T572.2
• Abortion by vomiting up embryo. T572.2.1
• Abortion by eating. T572.2.2
• Hero an abortion thrown into the bushes. T572.2.3
• Abortion by fasting. T572.2.4
• Abortion caused by fear. T572.2.5
• Abortion by long bathing. T572.2.6
• Short pregnancy. T573
• Short pregnancy in animals. T573.0.1
• Woman conceives and bears same day. T573.1
• Long pregnancy. Delayed by an enemy who bewitches the mother. T574
• Long pregnancy: twelve months. T574.1
• Long pregnancy: seven years. T574.2
• Child speaks before birth. (Cf. A511.1.2.) T575
• Child speaks in mother's womb. T575.1
• Child in mother's womb reveals crime. T575.1.1
• Child in mother's womb reveals murder. T575.1.1.1
• Child in mother's womb reveals adultery. T575.1.1.2
• Child in mother's womb reveals unjust judgment. T575.1.1.3
• Future suicide weeps in mother's womb. T575.1.2
• Twins quarrel before birth in mother's womb. T575.1.3
• Future poet chants spell in mother's womb. T575.1.4
• Children in mothers' wombs praise God at birth of Christ. T575.1.5
• Embryos in womb join melody and sing. T575.1.5.1
• Child in mother's belly guides her. T575.1.6
• Unborn child directs his mother on journey. T575.1.6.1
• Woman talks to her child before it is conceived. T575.2
• Child speaks from dead mother's womb. (Cf. T584.2.) T575.3
• Child in mother's womb visible from outside. T575.4
• Prenatal influences. T576
• Fetus exchanged from one woman to another. T577
• Male embryo transformed in womb to female. T577.1
• Pregnant man. T578
• Child incubated in man's thigh. T578.1
• Man transformed to female (human or animal) bears offspring. (Cf. T554.0.1.) T578.2
• Pregnancy – miscellaneous motifs. T579
• Sheath and knife as analogy for mother and unborn child. T579.1
• Girl's blood examined to see if she is pregnant. T579.2
• Seven-year-old girl has child. T579.3
• Seven-year-old boy begets child. T579.3.1
• Mother of saint has healing spittle during pregnancy. T579.4
• Saint performs miracles while yet unborn. (Cf. D1713.) T579.5
• Worm swallowed at conception eats hand of babe before birth. (Cf. T511.5.2.) T579.6
• King demands that his pregnant queen be chained to him. T579.7
• Signs of pregnancy. T579.8
• Transparent body of pregnant woman. T579.8.1
• Girl paints face because pregnant. T579.8.2
• Girl betrays pregnancy by dropping milk on brother. T579.8.3
• Childbirth. T580
• Jewess must entreat Virgin before she can bear her child. T580.1
• Place and conditions of childbirth. T581
• Birth of child in forest. T581.1
• Child born of woman abandoned in pit. T581.2
• Child born to an apparently dead mother in her grave. T581.2.1
• Blind wives fall into a pool where they give birth to children. T581.2.2
• Children born in dungeon. T581.2.3
• Child born in tree. T581.3
• Child born in stable. T581.4
• Child born during snowstorm. T581.5
• Noise of battle precipitates birth. T581.6
• Child born on flagstone. T581.7
• Woman bears twins at end of footrace (with king's horses). T581.8
• Child born on beach. T581.9
• Twins born in tent; mother abducted. T581.10
• Boy is born in a wrapping of fine cloth. T581.11
• Precautions at childbirth. T582
• Avoidance of evil spirits at childbirth. T582.1
• All locks in house to be shot during childbirth. T582.2
• Knots to be untied at childbirth. Particularly knots in the woman's clothes. T582.3
• Knife (other sharp instrument) as childbirth precaution. T582.4
• Accompaniments of childbirth. T583
• Couvade. Father goes into confinement at time of childbirth. T583.1
• Husband goes into seclusion at wife's pregnancy. T583.1.0.1
• Couvade imposed on man during wife's menstruation. T583.1.0.2
• Pains of woman in childbirth repeated in person of the man. T583.1.1
• Calamities at birth of hero. T583.2
• King leaves bell with his wife for her to ring so he will know when her child is born. T583.3
• Parturition. T584
• Childbirth assisted by magic. (Cf. D1501.2.) T584.0.1
• Husband acts as midwife when no woman is available. T584.0.2
• Birth of holy person painless. T584.0.3
• Childbirth assisted by angel. T584.0.4
• While saint's mother was giving birth to the child, she grasps a stout rod which roots and becomes a sturdy tree. T584.0.5
• Childbirth assisted by sacred stone. T584.0.6
• Birth through the mother's side. T584.1
• Child removed from body of dead mother. T584.2
• Child born of dead mother in grave. T584.2.1
• Twins freed from dead mother's body as body rots. T584.2.1.1
• Cesarean operation upon a woman at childbirth as a custom. T584.3
• Piglings cut from bodies of sows and reared. T584.4
• Extraordinarily long labor at childbirth. T584.5
• Prolonged labor: woman has childbirth pains for 100 days but is not delivered. T584.5.1
• After-birth (placenta) becomes a demon. T584.6
• Hero is born by splitting mother's womb. T584.7
• Child helps mother in severing his navel string. T584.8
• Precocious infant. T585
• Child born full (nearly) grown. T585.1
• Child stronger than mother on day of birth. T585.1.1
• Child speaks at birth. (Cf. T575.1.) T585.2
• Child two months old speaks. T585.2.1
• Child speaks prematurely on first birthday. T585.2.2
• Infant born blind immediately drowns self. T585.3
• Infant saint rebukes mother's impiety. T585.4
• Child born with all his teeth. T585.5
• Child born with hairy mane. T585.5.1
• Newborn child kisses dying mother. T585.6
• Precocious hero leaves cradle to go to war. T585.7
• Child stands (walks) at birth. T585.8
• Child born circumcised. T585.9
• Multiple births. T586
• Many children at a birth. T586.1
• Four children at a birth. T586.1.1
• Six children at a birth. T586.1.1.1
• Seven children at a birth. T586.1.2
• King and queen have seven sons, all named Maine. T586.1.2.1
• King has six (seven) sons, all named Lugaid. T586.1.2.2
• Nine children at a birth. T586.1.3
• Five children at a birth for four successive years. All alive. T586.1.4
• Forty sons born in one day. T586.1.5
• Extraordinary number of children in family. T586.2
• King with fifty sons (daughters). T586.2.1
• King with 60,000 sons. T586.2.2
• Multiple birth as result of relations with several men. (Cf. T587.1.) T586.3
• Woman ravished by three brothers bears triplets. T586.3.1
• Triplets killed by tribe at birth. T586.3.2
• Extraordinary number of animals at birth. T586.4
• Four calves to one cow at a birth. T586.4.1
• Extraordinarily frequent childbirth. T586.5
• Woman bears child every month. T586.5.1
• Child born each day for seven days. T586.5.2
• Birth of twins. (Cf. T685.) T587
• Birth of twins an indication of unfaithfulness in wife. (Cf. T586.3.) T587.1
• Twins born one with ear of other in mouth. T587.2
• Immediately after birth of twins one puts the other in his mouth: this twin's body becomes made of iron. T587.2.1
• Last born twin conceived first. T587.3
• Motifs associated with the placenta. T588
• Spirits make child from placenta. T588.1
• Childbirth – miscellaneous motifs. T589