μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Exposure of infant to avoid fulfillment of prophecy.

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

Filed across the traditions
  • Icelandic Boberg
  • Jewish Neuman, bin Gorion Born Judas 2d ed. I 165, 372
  • Greek Fox 5, 118
  • India Thompson-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 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 Exposure of child to prevent fulfillment of parricide prophecy Murder of child to prevent fulfillment of prophecy of ruin she will bring upon kingdom
Filed beside it
Prophecy of death fulfilled Confinement in tower to avoid fulfillment of prophecy Expulsion to avoid fulfillment of prophecy Slaughter of innocents to avoid fulfillment of prophecy God swallows his pregnant wife to prevent birth of son whom he fears Sword 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 stag Futile 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 (Thompson’s cf.)
Reasons for abandonment of children. (Cf. K2015, M371, M373, M375.)
Carried in tale types

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