μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 4references

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, India: Thompson-Balys
  • JapaneseIkeda.
  • 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 weaponProphecy: death by mistletoeProphecy: death by stormProphecy: death by drowningProphecy: three-fold death. Child to die from hunger, fire, and water. It so happensProphecy: death by horse's head. Man is killed in that wayProphecy: death by wolf. Killed by a wolf claw (or by a cat transformed to wolf)Prophecy: death by fireProphecy: death by poisonProphecy: death from hands of man with one sandalProphecy: death from bite of stone lion. Man killed by scorpion concealed in the statueProphecy: death by lightningProphecy: death through future husbandProphecy: death through spindle woundProphecy: death by means of boneProphecy: death at hands of man bearing a certain nameProphecy: death from thorns in riceProphecy: king to be slain by certain spear unless it is given when demandedProphecy: death in battleProphecy: death at hands of certain personProphecy: wholesale slaughter to be inflicted by colossal wheel rolling over EuropeProphecy: death from snakebiteProphecy: death by calfProphecy: death by hanging +3 more
Filed beside it
Saint prophesies that certain man will have a warning of coming deathAll forty of man's sons to die at onceProphecy of death not to come true if baby is married to girl of twelve yearsProphecy: death at (before, within) certain timeProphecy: death in particular placeProphecy: criminal going to death predicts that his judge (king, prince) shall soon meet himProphecy: either youth or mother will dieProphecy: person foretells own death
Travels with
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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