Death forestalls evil fates. Mother shown what would have been the evil fates of her children if they had not died

Motif

Death forestalls evil fates. Mother shown what would have been the evil fates of her children if they had not died.

Chance and fate. · The ways of luck and fate. · Nature of luck and fate. · Determination of luck or fate. · view the constellation · filed as N121.2

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Scholars’ trail — 2references

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.

IrishBeal XXI 336, O'Suilleabhain 120.
general BP III 472ff.

Within the index

Filed under Fate decided before birth.

Filed beside it

Child born with objects that indicate fate Newborn girl fated to be a courtesan Seventh daughter predestined to be magician. (Cf. Z71.5.)

Carried in tale types

Death Forestalls Evil Fates · ATU 934C1 recorded variant

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