Exposure of child to prevent fulfillment of parricide prophecy — Mythoi

Motif

Exposure of child to prevent fulfillment of parricide prophecy.

Ordaining the future. · Prophecies. · Vain attempts to escape fulfillment of prophecy. · view the constellation · filed as M371.2

Filed across the traditions

Irish myth *Cross
Greek Fox 48 (Oedipus)
India Thompson-Balys.
general *Type 931

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 (murder) of child to avoid fulfillment of prophecy of future greatness. Parent fears that the child will overcome him Murder of child to prevent fulfillment of prophecy of ruin she will bring upon kingdom

Carried in tale types

Oedipus · ATU 931 1 recorded variant

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