Newborn girl fated to be a courtesan

Motif

Newborn girl fated to be a courtesan.

Chance and fate. · The ways of luck and fate. · Nature of luck and fate. · Determination of luck or fate. · view the constellation · filed as N121.3

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Scholars’ trail — 1reference

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.

IndiaThompson-Balys.

Within the index

Filed under Fate decided before birth.

Filed beside it

Child born with objects that indicate fate Death forestalls evil fates. Mother shown what would have been the evil fates of her children if they had not died Seventh daughter predestined to be magician. (Cf. Z71.5.)

Carried in tale types

Outwitting Fate · ATU 934D1 recorded variant

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