Prophecy: three-fold death. Child to die from hunger, fire, and water. It so happens — Mythoi

Motif

Prophecy: three-fold death. Child to die from hunger, fire, and water. It so happens.

Ordaining the future. · Prophecies. · Unfavorable prophecies. · view the constellation · filed as M341.2.4

Filed across the traditions

Irish myth *Cross
Estonian Aarne FFC XXV 136 No. 96
Spanish Exempla Keller.
general *Jackson The Motive of the Threefold Death in the Story of Suibhne Geilt (Essays and Studies Presented to Eoin MacNeill 535–550)

Within the index

Filed under Prophecy: death by particular instrument. In spite of all precautions the prophecy is fulfilled.

Filed beside it

Prophecy: death by particular weapon Prophecy: death by mistletoe Prophecy: death by storm Prophecy: death by drowning Prophecy: death by horse's head. Man is killed in that way Prophecy: death by wolf. Killed by a wolf claw (or by a cat transformed to wolf) Prophecy: death by fire Prophecy: death by poison Prophecy: death from hands of man with one sandal Prophecy: death from bite of stone lion. Man killed by scorpion concealed in the statue Prophecy: death by lightning Prophecy: death through future husband Prophecy: death through spindle wound Prophecy: death by means of bone Prophecy: death at hands of man bearing a certain name Prophecy: death from thorns in rice

Carried in tale types

Tales of the Predestined Death (previously The Prince and the Storm) · ATU 934 4 recorded variants

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