μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Inexorable fate.

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

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
Filed across the traditions
  • Icelandic *Boberg
  • India *Thompson-Balys.
  • general *Cosquin Contes Indiens 126f.
  • general Hdwb. d. Märchens II 63 s. v. Fatalismus
Within the index

Filed under Nature of luck and fate.

4 finer motifs beneath 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 Inexorable fate: death from violating tabus. (Cf. C920.) 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.)
Filed beside it
Fortune comes to deserving and undeserving
Carried in tale types

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