Motif
Birth joined to maternal death
birth_joined_to_maternal_death
A motif of the Miraculous Child and Sacred Birth family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
germanic
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Household Tales by Brothers Grimm SECOND STORY / FIRST STORY / SECOND STORY / THIRD STORY; lines 6695-6789 confidence: high
The wife asks her husband to bury her beneath the juniper-tree if she dies; after the next month she gives birth to a child white as snow and red as blood, rejoices, and dies.
The wife bears the desired child, rejoices on seeing it, and dies immediately afterward.
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