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Motif

Prophecy: wealthy marriage for poor boy.

Ordaining the future. · Prophecies. · Favorable prophecies. · view the constellation · filed as M312.1

Filed across the traditions
  • India Thompson-Balys.
  • general *Types 461, 930
  • general **Aarne FFC XXIII
  • general **Tille Zs. f. Vksk. XXVIII 22a
Within the index

Filed under Prophecy of future greatness for youth.

1 finer motif beneath it
Prophecy: wealthy marriage for poor girl
Filed beside it
Dream of future greatness Prophecy of future greatness given by animals Prophecy of future greatness if boy lives to be eighteen Mother's symbolic dream (vision) about the greatness of her unborn child Prophecy: son will tie father to a horse's leg and strike him fifty blows Prophecy: parents will humble themselves before their son. (Vaticinium.) Eater of magic bird-heart will become rich (or king) Prophecy: superb beauty for girl Prophecy: child will build religious edifice. (Cf. M311.2.) Prophecy: boys to be fathers of saints Prophecy of luck for outcast child Prophecy: man will make sun and moon stand still Prophecy: no people or king will be able to stand up against hero
Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)
Predestined wife. (Cf. M312.1.)
Carried in tale types

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