Lots cast to determine luck or fate

Motif

Lots cast to determine luck or fate.

Chance and fate. · The ways of luck and fate. · Nature of luck and fate. · Determination of luck or fate. · view the constellation · filed as N126

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Scholars’ trail — 3references

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.

Irish mythCross
Icelandic*Boberg
Jewish*Neuman.

Within the index

Filed under Determination of luck or fate.

2 finer motifs beneath it

Lots cast to determine who shall undertake adventure Lots cast to determine father of illegitimate child

Filed beside it

Fate decided before birth Lucky or unlucky places Choices by chance The auspicious (lucky) day (days). (Cf. N53.)Unlucky days ("cross-days")

Travels with

Sacrificial victim chosen by lot. (Cf. N126.)

wander