Exposure of child to prevent fulfillment of parricide prophecy

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

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Scholars’ trail — 4references

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Irish myth*Cross
GreekFox 48 (Oedipus)
IndiaThompson-Balys.
general *Type 931

Within the index

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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 9311 recorded variant

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