Inexorable fate: death from violating tabus. (Cf. C920.) — Mythoi

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Inexorable fate: death from violating tabus. (Cf. C920.)

Chance and fate. · The ways of luck and fate. · Nature of luck and fate. · Nature of luck and fate. · view the constellation · filed as N101.2

Filed across the traditions

Irish myth *Cross.

Within the index

Filed under Inexorable fate.

Filed beside it

Inexorable fate: no day without sorrow. A king, who has made decree against sorrow on a certain day is blinded by a swallow in his sleep Man cannot die: snake will not bite him though it is provoked by him. (Cf. N146.) Man fated to become king becomes so despite fact he breaks his tooth in which his luck resides. (Cf. N113.2.2.)

Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)

Death for breaking tabu

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