μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 8references

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.

  • IcelandicBoberg
  • JewishNeuman, bin Gorion Born Judas 2d ed. I 165, 372
  • GreekFox 5, 118
  • IndiaThompson-Balys.
  • general *Type 930
  • general **Aarne FFC XXIII 56, 91
  • general *Encyc. Religion and Ethics s. v. "Abandonment and exposure"
  • general *Krappe Revue de l'Histoire des Religions CVII (1933) 126ff.
Within the index

Filed under Vain attempts to escape fulfillment of prophecy. (Cf. M341.2.10, M343, M344.)

5 finer motifs beneath it
Abandonment in forest to avoid fulfillment of prophecyFather throws boy of boy-girl twin birth into river to avoid evil effects of twin birthExposure (murder) of child to avoid fulfillment of prophecy of future greatness. Parent fears that the child will overcome himExposure of child to prevent fulfillment of parricide prophecyMurder of child to prevent fulfillment of prophecy of ruin she will bring upon kingdom
Filed beside it
Prophecy of death fulfilledConfinement in tower to avoid fulfillment of prophecyExpulsion to avoid fulfillment of prophecySlaughter of innocents to avoid fulfillment of prophecyGod swallows his pregnant wife to prevent birth of son whom he fearsSword that is to kill one is weighted and sunk so as to avoid the prophecy. (Cf. M341.2.)Man whose death has been prophesied takes refuge in church, but is accidentally slain through window by arrow directed at stagFutile moving to avoid death. Man told by Death he will die where he stands sells everything and moves to another town. He goes for a ride on a mare which runs away with him and throws him on the spot he so dreads, killing him
Travels with
Reasons for abandonment of children. (Cf. K2015, M371, M373, M375.)
Carried in tale types

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