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Motif

Slaughter of innocents to avoid fulfillment of prophecy.

Ordaining the future. · Prophecies. · Vain attempts to escape fulfillment of prophecy. · view the constellation · filed as M375

Filed across the traditions
  • Irish myth *Cross
  • Spanish Exempla Keller.
  • general *Hartland Perseus I 14
Within the index

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

4 finer motifs beneath it
All male children killed for fear that they will overcome parent Slaughter of children to prevent fulfillment of parricide prophecy Child mutilated to avoid fulfillment of prophecy Wooers slain to avoid fulfillment of prophecy
Filed beside it
Prophecy of death fulfilled Exposure of infant to avoid fulfillment of prophecy Confinement in tower to avoid fulfillment of prophecy Expulsion 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.)
Cruel father, learning that he is to be killed by his son, puts to death all children born to him. (Cf. M375.) Reasons for abandonment of children. (Cf. K2015, M371, M373, M375.)

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