Exposure (murder) of child to avoid fulfillment of prophecy of future greatness. Parent fears that the child will overcome him

Motif

Exposure (murder) of child to avoid fulfillment of prophecy of future greatness. Parent fears that the child will overcome him.

Ordaining the future. · Prophecies. · Vain attempts to escape fulfillment of prophecy. · view the constellation · filed as M371.1

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Scholars’ trail — 6references

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IrishMacCulloch Celtic 167
IcelandicDe la Saussaye 142
Italian Novella*Rotunda
IndiaThompson-Balys
general Greek
general Fox 6f.

Within the index

Filed under Exposure of infant to avoid fulfillment of prophecy.

Filed beside it

Abandonment in forest to avoid fulfillment of prophecy Father throws boy of boy-girl twin birth into river to avoid evil effects of twin birth Exposure of child to prevent fulfillment of parricide prophecy Murder of child to prevent fulfillment of prophecy of ruin she will bring upon kingdom

Travels with

Prophecy: future greatness of unborn child. (Cf. M301.2.2, M301.5.1, M301.12, M359.3, M371.1.)

wander