μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

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

Ordaining the future. · Prophecies. · Unfavorable prophecies. · view the constellation · filed as M341.2

Filed across the traditions
  • Irish myth *Cross, India: Thompson-Balys
  • Japanese Ikeda.
  • general *Basset 1001 Contes II 209
  • general *Krappe Scandinavian Studies 16 (1942) 20–35
Within the index

Filed under Death prophesied.

27 finer motifs beneath it
Prophecy: death by particular weapon Prophecy: death by mistletoe Prophecy: death by storm Prophecy: death by drowning Prophecy: three-fold death. Child to die from hunger, fire, and water. It so happens 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 Prophecy: king to be slain by certain spear unless it is given when demanded Prophecy: death in battle Prophecy: death at hands of certain person Prophecy: wholesale slaughter to be inflicted by colossal wheel rolling over Europe Prophecy: death from snakebite Prophecy: death by calf Prophecy: death by hanging +3 more
Filed beside it
Saint prophesies that certain man will have a warning of coming death All forty of man's sons to die at once Prophecy of death not to come true if baby is married to girl of twelve years Prophecy: death at (before, within) certain time Prophecy: death in particular place Prophecy: criminal going to death predicts that his judge (king, prince) shall soon meet him Prophecy: either youth or mother will die Prophecy: person foretells own death
Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)
Sword that is to kill one is weighted and sunk so as to avoid the prophecy. (Cf. M341.2.)
Carried in tale types

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