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- 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