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- Deity ascertains destiny of newborn babe and inscribes it upon his forehead. A189.7
- Star indicates location of newborn hero. D1314.13
- Fairies make good wishes for newborn child. (Cf. F316.) F312.1.1
- Fairy predicts future greatness of newborn child. F317
- Parting fairies leave gifts for newborn princess. F340.1
- Starving woman abandoned in cave eats newborn child. G72.2
- Prophecy for newborn princesses: the one who takes gold in the mouth will be married to a prince; the one who takes hawkweed, to a peasant. H41.6
- "Do not act when angry": counsel proved wise by experience. Man returns home and sees someone sleeping with his wife. Though he thinks it is a paramour, he restrains himself and finds that it is a newborn son. J21.2
- No thanks to the messenger. A messenger tells a man that he has a newborn son. "Thanks are to God, but I am not beholden to you for it." J1358
- Did the calf eat the man? A fool, liking the shoes on the feet of a man hanged on a gallows, cuts off the swollen feet in order to carry off the shoes. In the room in which he sleeps that night is a newborn calf. The next morning the man takes the shoes but leaves the feet. Peasants agree that the calf has eaten the man all but the feet. They burn the house to destroy the calf. J1815
- Only the youngest of group of imprisoned women refuses to eat her newborn child. L71
- Prophecy of general misfortune to newborn child. M340.3
- Prophecy: danger to threatened newborn boy at his eighteenth year. M341.1.4.2
- Newborn girl fated to be a courtesan. N121.3
- Newborn babe reveals secret; then becomes silent. N468
- Venomous snake put into the mouth as punishment for murder of newborn children. (Cf. Q211.4.) Q418.2
- Exposure given up on account of newborn son's protesting stanza. S341.1
- Newborn child kisses dying mother. T585.6
- Newborn boy placed in the lap of bathing queen by vulture. T589.6.1.1