Note 414 — Chapter IV · THE UNCONSCIOUS ORIGIN OF THE HERO

In a Bakairi myth a woman appears, who has sprung from a corn mortar. In a Zulu myth it is said: A woman is to catch a drop of blood in a vessel, then close the vessel, put it aside for eight months and open it in the ninth month. She follows the advice, opens the vessel in the ninth month, and finds a child in it. (Frobenius: “Das Zeitalter des Sonnengottes” [The Age of the Sun-God], I, p. 237.)