Shavings of spear which killed king cast into cataract — Mythoi

Motif

Shavings of spear which killed king cast into cataract.

Society. · Royalty and nobility. · Kings. · view the constellation · filed as P16.5

Filed across the traditions

Irish myth Cross.

Within the index

Filed under End of king's reign.

Filed beside it

King (prince) retires from the world (becomes hermit, swineherd) King must resign if maimed (disfigured) King killed when old Persons buried with dead king Kings worshipped after their death King slain by "his own household" in revenge for deposing his father Land where every raja dies; if he rules for a day he dies that night; if he rules for a night, he dies that day King's coffin sunk into river

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