Accidental killing or death

Motif

Accidental killing or death.

Chance and fate. · Unlucky accidents. · Accidental killing or death. · view the constellation · filed as N330

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 mythCross.

Within the index

9 finer motifs beneath it

Things accidentally fall and kill person Accidental poisoning Aiming at fly has fatal results Accidental fatal ending of game or joke Unexpected death at hands of an animal Accidental death through dream. Man dodging blow in dream hits his head against wall and kills himself Accidental death through misdirected weapon Death as result of mistaken identity: wrong person killed Accidental death – miscellaneous

Carried in tale types

Series of Clever Unjust Decisions · ATU 15341 recorded variant

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