Unlucky days ("cross-days")

Motif

Unlucky days ("cross-days").

Chance and fate. · The ways of luck and fate. · Nature of luck and fate. · Determination of luck or fate. · view the constellation · filed as N128

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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.

Irish myth*Cross.

Within the index

Filed under Determination of luck or fate.

3 finer motifs beneath it

Days of the week on which certain tragic deaths occurred National disasters occur always at the same date Monday and Wednesday as unlucky days

Filed beside it

Fate decided before birth Lucky or unlucky places Choices by chance Lots cast to determine luck or fate The auspicious (lucky) day (days). (Cf. N53.)

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