μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 9references

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.

  • Irish myth*Cross
  • RussianAndrejev No. 932*
  • Spanish ExemplaKeller
  • Italian Novella*Rotunda, Basile Pentamerone III No. 3, IV No. 6
  • JewishNeuman.
  • general Type 932*
  • general Köhler in Gonzenbach II 222
  • general *Wesselski Mönchslatein 91 No. 77
  • general Chauvin V 253 No. 150, VIII 105 No. 80
Within the index

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

1 finer motif beneath it
Confinement in iron house below surface of earth to avoid fulfillment of prophecy
Filed beside it
Prophecy of death fulfilledExposure of infant 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
Carried in tale types

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