Signs before the Day of Judgment

Motif

Signs before the Day of Judgment.

Mythological motifs. · World calamities and renewals. · World catastrophe. · view the constellation · filed as A1002.2

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

Literary CrystallizationFour Plays (The Tempest, A Midsummer-Night's Dream, The Winter's Tale, King Lear) — University Press Shakespeare, ed. Sidney Lee, King Lear Act 1

Scholars’ trail — 1reference

The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our shelf are live links; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.

general **Heist Fifteen Signs Before Doomsday (East Lansing, Michigan, 1952). Irish myth: Cross.

Within the index

Filed under Doomsday. Catastrophes precede the Day of Judgment.

4 finer motifs beneath it

No rainbow for fifteen years before the Day of Judgment Bleeding wood as sign of Doomsday Talking stone as sign of Doomsday Unusual migration of birds as sign of Doomsday

Filed beside it

Widespread calamity when feast of John the Baptist shall fall on certain day

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