Sex

1,504 motifs · page 8 of 8

• Co-operative birth. Each of two wives bears a half-boy. They are placed together and form a real boy. T589.1
• Boy cut in two: each half becomes a boy. T589.2
• Birth trees. Spring forth as hero is born; act as life tokens, etc. (Cf. T589.7.1.) T589.3
• Birth with veil brings luck. (Cf. T552.5.1.) T589.4
• New-born child reincarnation of recently deceased person. T589.5
• Where children come from. Explanations given to children. T589.6
• Children brought by the stork. T589.6.1
• Newborn boy placed in the lap of bathing queen by vulture. T589.6.1.1
• Children brought by midwife. T589.6.2
• Children said to come from underworld. T589.6.3
• Children said to come from a well. T589.6.4
• Children said to come from cauliflower. T589.6.5
• Children said to come from stones. T589.6.6
• Simultaneous births. T589.7
• Simultaneous birth of (domestic) animal and child. T589.7.1
• Hero born in hour of Christ's Nativity. T589.7.2
• Woman strives to delay birth until auspicious day. T589.8
• Child with several mothers. (Heimdal.) T589.9
• Conception and birth – miscellaneous motifs. T590
• Barrenness or impotence induced by magic. T591
• Magic remedies for barrenness or impotence. (Cf. D1347, D1925, D2161.3.11.) T591.1
• Magic potion as remedy for impotence. T591.1.1
• Milk of hornless, single-colored cow drunk by man to make wife fruitful. T591.1.2
• Unlucky for a woman to look on the face of a childless person. T591.2
• Milk suddenly appears in woman's dry breast. T592
• Milk medicine fills woman's breasts with milk. T592.1
• Sign hung out informing brothers whether mother has borne boy or girl. T595
• Naming of children. T596
• Angel names child. T596.1
• Children named by numbers (1, 2, 3, etc.). T596.2
• Ambitions of father transferred to child at moment of conception. T597
• Care of children. T600
• Infant bathed in milk. T601
• Weapons and horses procured for boy at his birth. T602
• Divine nurse. T605
• Nurture and growth of children. T610
• Suckling of children. T611
• Child nourished by sucking its own fingers. T611.1
• Child nourished by sucking thumb of a god. T611.1.1
• Child miraculously suckled by his father. T611.2
• Witch (fairy) suckles child. T611.3
• Children magically prevented from suckling. T611.4
• Child miraculously suckled by saint. (Cf. V211.1.8.1.) T611.5
• Saint has two paps – a pap with milk and a pap with honey: with these he suckles two infants. T611.5.1
• Saint feeds children by cutting off cow's teats and pouring milk into them. T611.5.2
• Children miraculously suckled by angel. T611.5.3
• Milk magically appears in woman's breast so as to nourish orphan. (Cf. T592.) T611.6
• Abandoned child saved by seagulls; milk furnished by doe; angel brings bell as drinking utensil. T611.7
• One woman suckles many babies. T611.8
• Dead mother's breasts furnish sufficient nourishment for her baby during two years. T611.9
• Man suckled by dog (wolf): called Mac Con (Son of Dog). T611.10
• Girl suckled by wolf has nail "like a wolf's nail." T611.10.1
• Saint suckled by wolf. T611.10.2
• Child nourished by sucking the eyeballs of snake-mother (frog-mother) who left it. T611.11
• Child born of slain mother cares for itself during infancy. T612
• Diabolical child kills his wet-nurses. (Gowther, Robert the Devil.) T614
• Supernatural growth. (Cf. T585.) T615
• Precocious speech. (Cf. T585.) T615.1
• Women old from their birth. T615.2
• Precocious wisdom. T615.3
• Precocious boy supports his widowed mother and himself by use of his wits. T615.4
• Precocious young child demands weapons. (Cf. T617.1.) T615.5
• Boy reared in ignorance of the world. T617
• Future hero as child isolated from world kills increasingly larger game with superior weapons. T617.1
• Hero learns his name at time of first adventure. T617.2
• Orphan inquires about parents. (Cf. L111.4.1.) T621
• Illegitimate children. T640
• Illegitimate child of nun. (Cf. V465.1.2.) T640.1
• Mother of illegitimate child given as pledge for his crime. T640.2
• Test of legitimacy of children: exposure to asps. Asps will bite only foreigners. (Cf. H222.1.) T642
• Child betrays his own illegitimacy. T644
• Paramour leaves token with girl to give their son. T645
• Sword left for posthumous son to kill father's murderer. T645.1
• "Keep it if it is a girl; send it to me if it is a boy." Hero leaving girl says this of the prospective child. T645.2
• "Kill it if it is a girl." T645.2.1
• Father orders the mother to send the expected illegitimate boy to him when he can perform certain feats. T645.3
• Hero leaves bedmate keys to treasure chamber for the son she is supposed to bear. T645.4
• Illegitimate child taunted by playmates. T646
• Child cries because his father is unknown. T646.1
• Illegal to care for illegitimate child. T647
• Adoption of children. T670
• Adoption by suckling. Ogress who suckles hero claims him as her son. T671
• Adopted child reproaches his foster mother and is returned to his real mother. T672
• Rich but stingy couple adopt young man as their son: everybody is happy. T673
• Adopted child deserted when own child is born to couple. T674
• Real mother preferred to foster mothers. Kid abandoned by his mother suckles the whole flock but is not satisfied. T675
• Children prefer foster mother. T675.1
• Childless couple adopt animal as substitute for child. T676
• Childless woman adopts a serpent (transformed man). (Cf. D191.) T676.1
• Substitute for a child. Aged, childless couple carve themselves a child from wood, or make one from snow, clay, and the like. T677
• Adopted child identical with real child reared with him. T678
• Care of children – miscellaneous motifs. T680
• Each likes his own children best. Snipe asks sportsman to spare its small ones, easily recognized as being the prettiest in the forest. To be on the safe side he shoots only the ugliest he can find. They are the young snipes. (Often told of the ape.) T681
• Animals ridicule foolish pride of owl in the beauty of his son's really hideous feet. T681.1
• Hero a posthumous son. T682
• Devil substitutes himself for new-born child. T684
• Twins. (Cf. T587.) T685
• Twin adventurers. T685.1
• Hostile twins. T685.2
• Twins who look exactly alike. T685.3
• Twins: as twins are reared one born earlier becomes continually weaker, the other stronger. T685.4
• Quadruplet heroes. T686
• Triplets (as heroes). T687
• Children sleep in village dormitory. T688