The constellation
N101 Inexorable fate
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● motif
● tale type
● on the shelf
● attested
The same sky, in words
filed under
- Nature of luck and fate · N100 entry
beneath it
- Inexorable fate: no day without sorrow. A king, who has made decree against sorrow on a certain day is blinded by a swallow in his sleep · N101.1 entry
- Inexorable fate: death from violating tabus. (Cf. C920.) · N101.2 entry
- Man cannot die: snake will not bite him though it is provoked by him. (Cf. N146.) · N101.3 entry
- Man fated to become king becomes so despite fact he breaks his tooth in which his luck resides. (Cf. N113.2.2.) · N101.4 entry
carried in tale type
- The Predestined Wife [T22 · ATU 930A