54 motifs match “pregnant”  ·  back to the chapters

• Mother Earth pregnant with Adam. A401.1
• Shooting stars spirits coming down to earth to make woman pregnant. A788.3
• Origin of charms for pregnant women. A1562.1
• Emergence of tribe from lower world stopped by fat woman or pregnant woman who becomes lodged in the hole of egress. A1631.1
• Dog indicates pregnant woman, adulteress, etc. (Cf. B121.1, B134, B153.) B152.1
• Peacock pregnant without intercourse. Male spits up semen and female eats it. This as a curse. (Cf. A2236.5.) B754.6
• Female snake seven years pregnant. B765.25
• Tabu: refusing unreasonable demand of pregnant woman. C152.2
• Eating tabus for pregnant woman. C152.3
• Pregnant woman not to eat food baked overnight. C152.3.1
• Dream by a (pregnant) woman about fate of her unborn child. D1812.3.3.8
• Snake becomes powerless when his path is crossed by a pregnant woman. D1837.4
• Devil advises young girl not to go to a castle. Later, when she returns pregnant she says that the devil advised her to serve at the castle. He slaps her and tells her she is lying. G303.9.7.1
• What is most pleasant? Love. (In spite of childbirth pains women continue becoming pregnant.) H659.13.1
• Riddle: a fish was my father; a man was my mother. (Man eats magic fish and becomes pregnant; a girl is taken from his knee.) H791
• Tasks assigned because of longings of pregnant woman. H936
• Quest assigned because of longings of pregnant woman. H1212.4
• Pregnant woman craving fish sends husband to heaven after lucky fishhook. (Cf. H936.) H1267
• Pregnant wife left in charge of friend. H1558.9
• "But by a fine fellow!" Dying toad thus comforts his paramour, the frog, whom he is leaving neither married nor widow nor maiden and pregnant. J865.1
• Girls must pay for young man's virginity. Girls repulsed by man climb in his window at night. Become pregnant and demand marriage. Branded as prostitutes and must pay the man. J1174.4
• Deduction: the camel ridden by a pregnant woman. J1661.1.1.1
• Man made to believe that he is pregnant (has borne child). J2321
• Husband makes wife and mother-in-law believe he will bear a sheep. His wife was pregnant when he married her. J2321.3
• Cuckolded "as per instructions." Woman tells husband that she has become pregnant during his absence according to his own instructions. J2342.2.2
• Numskull praises his daughter as being pregnant. He tries in vain to sell his cow and succeeds only when he says that she is with calf. When suitors come wooing his daughter, he tries the same plan disastrously. J2427
• Man disguised as pregnant woman admitted to girl's bed. K1321.1.1
• Lover masks as pregnant woman: adulteress sent by husband to act as midwife, meets lover. K1514.16
• Paramour disguised as pregnant woman. K1517.7
• Prophecy of ogre-child so that pregnant woman will be killed. K2115.3
• God swallows his pregnant wife to prevent birth of son whom he fears. M376
• Exposure of pregnant woman to avoid fulfillment of prophecy concerning future child. M376.1
• Murder of pregnant woman to avoid fulfillment of prophecy. M376.2
• Curse: "What I carry may you carry; what you carry may I carry." Cat thus causes ungrateful pregnant woman to bear cats and herself to bear twin girls. M437.1
• Blood bath causes woman to be carried off by bird. A pregnant woman demands a bath of blood: husband substitutes a bath of red dye. A Garuda bird attracted by the dye carries her off. N335.2
• Punishment for refusal to marry after girl is pregnant. (Cf. Q263, Q451.2.1.) Q245
• Girl punished for becoming pregnant. Q254
• Adulteress's pregnant belly pierced with pounder. (Cf. Q241.) Q451.14
• Pregnant woman crushed beneath chariot. (Cf. S185.) S116.2
• Cruelty to pregnant woman. S185
• Co-wife forces pregnant woman to perform lowly tasks. (Cf. T257.2.) S185.1
• Pregnant woman ordered by husband to kill child to be born. S324
• Pregnant nun's virginity restored through power of saint. T313.1.1
• Pregnant abbess secretly delivered of her child by Virgin Mary. T401.1
• Cow touched by arrow becomes pregnant. T532.4
• Woman becomes pregnant after eagle sits on her head. T532.7
• Unreasonable demands of pregnant women. T571
• Pregnant man. T578
• Girl's blood examined to see if she is pregnant. T579.2
• King demands that his pregnant queen be chained to him. T579.7
• Transparent body of pregnant woman. T579.8.1
• Girl paints face because pregnant. T579.8.2
• Pillar of fire rises over woman pregnant with future saint. V222.0.1.1
• King with seven wives and seven mares. The seven wives pregnant for seven years, the seven mares seven years in foal. Z71.5.7