Vow not to eat or sleep until certain event is brought to pass

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Vow not to eat or sleep until certain event is brought to pass.

Ordaining the future. · Vows and oaths. · Other vows and oaths. · view the constellation · filed as M151.5

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.

Irish mythCross.

Within the index

Filed under Vow not to eat before hearing of adventure.

1 finer motif beneath it

Vow not to eat, drink, or move from position until dead anchorite comes himself to accept necklace

Filed beside it

Vow not to eat before learning secret Vow not to marry until quest is concluded Vow not to take food or drink until manner of father's death is learned Vow not to take food or drink until enemy is killed Vow not to eat or drink before knowing if king is alive Heroine will not laugh till arrival of destined hero. (Cf. H341.)Vow not to eat until lost son is found Vow not to see friends until quest is completed

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