Confinement in tower to avoid fulfillment of prophecy — Mythoi

Motif

Confinement in tower to avoid fulfillment of prophecy.

Ordaining the future. · Prophecies. · Vain attempts to escape fulfillment of prophecy. · view the constellation · filed as M372

Filed across the traditions

Irish myth *Cross
Russian Andrejev No. 932*
Spanish Exempla Keller
Italian Novella *Rotunda, Basile Pentamerone III No. 3, IV No. 6
Jewish Neuman.
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 fulfilled Exposure of infant 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

Carried in tale types

Tales of the Predestined Death (previously The Prince and the Storm) · ATU 934 12 recorded variants
Crystal Palace (previously The Princess from the Tower Recovers her Husband) · ATU 891A 1 recorded variant

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