45 motifs match “unborn”  ·  back to the chapters

• In other world one room contains the dead, another contains souls of the unborn waiting to enter the wombs of women, and a third contains all the evil spirits. A678
• Eaten meat of bear-lover causes unborn son to have bear characteristics. (Cf. B611.1.) B635.1.1
• Unborn child affected by mother's broken tabu. C993
• Magic heart of unborn child. D997.1.1
• Magic blood of unborn child. D1003.3
• Heart of unborn child renders person invisible. (Cf. D997.1.1.) D1361.8
• Dream by a (pregnant) woman about fate of her unborn child. D1812.3.3.8
• Woman cries out on beholding man her unborn child is destined to slay. (Cf. T575.1.) D1812.4.1
• Magic knowledge of unborn calf. D1819.8
• Abode of unborn souls. E706
• Soul of unborn son comes out of mother's mouth (in form of stone), is kept by her, and later is given to son. (Cf. E711.7.) E726.2
• Journey to the Land of the Unborn. F115
• Blind man is able to see two unborn rats within mother rat. F642.3.3
• Guessing sex of unborn child (or animal). H528
• Riddle of the unborn. I am unborn; my horse is unborn; I carry my mother on my hands. (A boy who has been taken from his dead mother's body digs up the body of his mother and makes gloves of her skin. He rides on a colt which has been taken from a dead mare's body.) H792
• Test of magic powers: telling sex of unborn goat. H1576.1
• Distress over imagined troubles of unborn child. (Clever Else.) Girl sent to cellar to get wine to serve the suitor begins weeping over the troubles of the child which she might have if she married the suitor. Her parents join her. Meanwhile the suitor leaves. J2063
• Friar adds missing nose (fingers) to unborn child: foetus is imperfect and he will substitute for absent husband. Is praised by the latter on his return. K1363.2
• Sham physician predicts the sex of the unborn child. "From one side it looks like a boy, from the other a girl." The woman bears twins and the husband pays the doctor. K1955.3
• Brother and sister arrange marriage of their unborn children to each other. M146.4
• Prophecy: future greatness of unborn child. (Cf. M301.2.2, M301.5.1, M301.12, M359.3, M371.1.) M311
• Prophecy: unborn child to be a saint. M311.3
• Prophecy: unborn child to become king. (Cf. M314.) M311.4
• Unborn child will become nation's deliverer. M311.5
• Prophecy: unborn child will be prophet. M311.6
• Mother's symbolic dream (vision) about the greatness of her unborn child. M312.0.4
• Prophecy: unborn child to be blind, deformed, sickly, etc. M355
• Prophecy: unborn (new-born) child (girl) to bring evil upon land. M356.3
• Prophecy: unborn child to kill enemy in revenge. M359.3
• Prophecy: unborn child shall be nun. M364.7.4
• Prophecy: sex of unborn child. M369.7.3
• Curse laid on unborn child; it is stillborn. M444.1
• Wagers on unborn children. N16
• Wager on sex of unborn child. N16.1
• Fathers whose unborn children are affianced wager as to mastery in the house. (Cf. N12.) N16.2
• Treasure discovered by hand of unborn child. N533.3
• Woman promises her unborn child to appease offended witch. S222.1
• Woman promises unborn daughter to snake as wife for ferrying her across stream. S222.2
• Woman promises unborn child to tiger if he will spare her. S222.3
• Girl promises unborn child to devil if he will suffer the birth pangs. S223.1
• Mother curses her unborn child. (Cf. M411.1.) S223.2
• Unborn children promised in marriage to each other. T61.5.3
• Unborn child directs his mother on journey. T575.1.6.1
• Sheath and knife as analogy for mother and unborn child. T579.1
• Saint performs miracles while yet unborn. (Cf. D1713.) T579.5