μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
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 myth*Cross.
Within the index

Filed under Prophecies.

5 finer motifs beneath it
Enigmatical prophecy: what thou sowest thou shalt not reap, etc. (Thou shalt have children and they shall not die, etc.)Two sons: one a purse cutter and the other a killer. Wife tells husband that they will make a purse designer of one, and a butcher of the otherEnigmatical prophecy: princess will wed physician, fisherman and prince all in one. Man puts on the guise of all three, one on top of anotherEnigmatical prophecy: "He that is to kill you shall grow up in Braja (a place)Enigmatical prophecy: "He who will kill your child is not here, but in the village."
Filed beside it
Prophecy by Jesus that certain people shall live "till coming of Patrick." So it wasUnconscious prophecyProphetic gift received from another prophetSuppression of prophecyProphetsMeans of prophesyingProphecy by reading palmProphecy from enigmatical laugh. (Cf. N456.)Ambiguous oracle

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