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- Mermaid has human midwife. B81.6
- Tiger grateful for woman assisting tigress as midwife. B387
- Fairy grateful to human midwife. (Cf. F372.1.) F333
- Fairies take human midwife to attend fairy woman. (Cf. F333.) F372.1
- Water-spirit calls human midwife. (Cf. F372.1, F451.3.5.5, F451.5.5.) F420.5.3.2
- Dwarfs have human woman as midwife. F451.5.5
- Brownie rides for midwife when needed. F482.5.4.1
- Devil is employed as a midwife. G303.9.3.2
- King: What are your mother and father doing? Girl: Mother is separating earth (being a midwife), and father is mixing earth (at a funeral). H583.4.5
- The fool seeks a midwife. Accidentally strikes the dog dead, drowns the midwife, and kills the child. J2661.2
- Lover masks as pregnant woman: adulteress sent by husband to act as midwife, meets lover. K1514.16
- Midwife takes child and substitutes it for king's stillborn child. K1923.5
- Wolf offers to act as midwife for sow: plan detected. K2061.6
- Husband acts as midwife when no woman is available. T584.0.2
- Children brought by midwife. T589.6.2