Ordaining the future

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• Prophecy: unborn child shall be nun. M364.7.4
• Prophecy: miraculous removal of saint's bones. M364.8
• Saint foretells desecration of his bones. M364.8.1
• Hero prophesies that one-half of the churches in Ireland shall be named for Ciaran. M364.9
• Destruction and rebuilding of church foreseen by saint. M364.10
• Everyone buried in saint's soil shall go to heaven. M364.11
• Prophecy: eternal peace in an early death or long troublesome life. (Cf. M369.7.) M365
• Prophecy: hero may win fame but die early. Chooses fame. M365.1
• Son to be brave and wise but not to remain and cause mother to weep. M365.2
• Prophecy: girl will be perfect in love but will die in a desert overcome by separation from her love. M365.3
• Prophecy: hero may win lady's love but die early. Chooses this rather than long life without her. M366
• Prophecy: immunity from certain types of death. M367
• Immunity from wet or dry, steel or wood, sword or javelin, by day or by night. Man killed at edge of sea, at twilight, with force of sea and thunderbolt. M367.1
• Prophecy: punishment for misappropriation of property. M368
• Miscellaneous prophecies. M369
• Prophecies that person will tell three (two) falsehoods before death. M369.1
• Prophecies concerning love and marriage. M369.2
• Future husband (wife) foretold. M369.2.1
• Prophecy of king taking a cruel stepmother to her sons after her death enacted before eyes of dying queen by sparrow family living in tree by palace window. M369.2.1.1
• Prophecy: princess will marry a bastard. M369.2.1.2
• Prophecy: lovers not destined to meet in life will never part after death. M369.2.2
• Prophecy: marriage when one is twelve years old. M369.2.3
• Prophecy: if the raja marries certain girl he will prosper. M369.2.4
• Prophecy: descendant of mistress shall serve that of handmaid. M369.2.5
• Prophecy that certain person will fight particular battle. M369.3
• Names of future kings foretold. M369.4
• Prophecy that bird will become king. M369.4.1
• Prophecies concerning invasion and conquest. M369.5
• Signs before destruction of Jerusalem. M369.5.1
• Time and place of landing of returning heroes prophesied. M369.6
• Prophecy about birth of children. (Cf. M365.) M369.7
• Prophecy: birth of twins. M369.7.1
• Prophecy about birth of heir. M369.7.2
• Prophecy: sex of unborn child. M369.7.3
• Prophecies about children born at the same time. M369.8
• Prophecy: king will have head pounded by strange queen. Due to peculiar set of circumstances this happens. M369.9
• Prophecy: boy to be great hunter. M369.10
• Vain attempts to escape fulfillment of prophecy. (Cf. M341.2.10, M343, M344.) M370
• Prophecy of death fulfilled. M370.1
• Prophecy wittingly fulfilled by wazir that he will murder the raja, but unwittingly causes his own death twelve years hence. M370.1.1
• Exposure of infant to avoid fulfillment of prophecy. M371
• Abandonment in forest to avoid fulfillment of prophecy. M371.0.1
• Father throws boy of boy-girl twin birth into river to avoid evil effects of twin birth. M371.0.2
• Exposure (murder) of child to avoid fulfillment of prophecy of future greatness. Parent fears that the child will overcome him. M371.1
• Exposure of child to prevent fulfillment of parricide prophecy. M371.2
• Murder of child to prevent fulfillment of prophecy of ruin she will bring upon kingdom. M371.3
• Confinement in tower to avoid fulfillment of prophecy. M372
• Confinement in iron house below surface of earth to avoid fulfillment of prophecy. M372.1
• Expulsion to avoid fulfillment of prophecy. M373
• Slaughter of innocents to avoid fulfillment of prophecy. M375
• All male children killed for fear that they will overcome parent. M375.1
• Slaughter of children to prevent fulfillment of parricide prophecy. M375.2
• Child mutilated to avoid fulfillment of prophecy. M375.3
• Wooers slain to avoid fulfillment of prophecy. M375.4
• God swallows his pregnant wife to prevent birth of son whom he fears. M376
• Exposure of pregnant woman to avoid fulfillment of prophecy concerning future child. M376.1
• Murder of pregnant woman to avoid fulfillment of prophecy. M376.2
• Children swallowed one after the other as they are born for fear one of them will overcome father. M376.3
• Delivery of child fated to rule retarded in order to avoid fulfillment of prophecy. M376.4
• Sword that is to kill one is weighted and sunk so as to avoid the prophecy. (Cf. M341.2.) M377
• Stone that is to kill one powdered and thrown into distant sea. M377.1
• Man whose death has been prophesied takes refuge in church, but is accidentally slain through window by arrow directed at stag. M381
• Futile moving to avoid death. Man told by Death he will die where he stands sells everything and moves to another town. He goes for a ride on a mare which runs away with him and throws him on the spot he so dreads, killing him. M382
• Prophecies – miscellaneous motifs. M390
• Fulfillment of prophecy. M391
• Fulfillment of prophecy successfully avoided. M391.1
• Prophecy of misfortune for prince avoided successfully in one respect. M391.1.1
• Wandering skull fulfills prophecy. M391.2
• Queen dies from fright from evil prophecy. M392
• Favorable prophecies: blessings, beatitudes. M393
• Child pronounces blessing according to which countries are to be filled with what they are later famous for. M393.1
• Hero's coming prophesied. M394
• Prophecy: son of certain name will become king; all sons given the name. M395
• Prophecy: meeting will take place only after death. M396
• Prophecy: hunters will encounter certain wild boar. M397
• Futility of weather prophecies. M398
• Curses. M400
• Cursing match (flyting). M401
• Satire. M402
• Woman satirist. M402.1
• Woman satirists punished in hell. M402.1.1
• No one to go security for a satirist. M402.2
• Curse of everlasting terror. M403
• Unintentional curse or blessing takes effect. M404
• Pronouncement of curses. M410
• Deliverer of curse. M411
• Curse by oneself. The person in despair curses himself to sink with palace into the earth. M411.0.1
• Curse by parent. M411.1
• Curse by stepmother. (Cf. S31.) M411.1.1
• Curse by foster mother. M411.1.2
• Beggar's curse. Beggar is refused request. "May your bread turn to stones!" M411.2
• Dying man's curse. M411.3
• Man pursued by hatred of the gods. M411.4
• Curse by a god. M411.4.1
• Old woman's curse (satire). M411.5
• Druid's curse. M411.6
• Druid's curse makes land sterile. M411.6.1
• Curse by spirit. M411.7
• Saint's (prophet's) curse. M411.8
• Saints curse by ringing bells against offender. M411.8.1
• Hermit curses men who kill his pet bear and all the men die. M411.8.2
• Curses on places because of offensive answer to saint. M411.8.3
• Animals cursed by saint. (Cf. M471.) M411.8.4
• Saint curses books hidden by inhospitable host: no man shall read them. M411.8.5
• Giantess lays a curse on the one on earth who eventually hears her. M411.9
• Curse by berserk, giant (ogre). M411.10
• Curse by girl in revenge of the murdering of her foster father. M411.11
• Curse by amazon, "skjaldmær". (Cf. F565.) M411.11.1
• Curse by witch. (Cf. G269.4.) M411.12
• Curse by thrall. M411.13
• Curse by priest. M411.14
• Priest curses sinner: even his grave shall not rest. The grave rolls like a wave. M411.14.1
• Curse by anchorite. M411.14.2
• Brahmin's curse. M411.14.3
• Curse by monk. M411.15
• Fairy lays curse on village. M411.16
• Curse by king. M411.17
• Curse by poet. M411.18
• Curse by animal. M411.19
• Curse by wounded animal. M411.19.1
• Ox curses ungrateful man. M411.19.2
• Curse by spouse. M411.20
• Curse by disguised deity. M411.21
• Curse by head of religious order. M411.22
• Curse by other wronged man or woman. M411.23
• Curse on city by sage. M411.24
• Time of giving curse. M412
• Curse given at birth of child. M412.1
• Curse given on wedding night. M412.2
• Place of giving curse. M413
• Curse given from a height. Will fall with full effect on objects at which it is aimed. M413.1
• Recipient of curse. M414
• God cursed. M414.1
• Goddess cursed. M414.2
• Saint cursed. M414.3
• Four year old girl cursed. M414.4
• King cursed. M414.5
• Poet cursed. M414.6
• Hostages cursed. M414.7
• Animals cursed. M414.8
• Mice (rats, cats) cursed. M414.8.1
• Pigs cursed. M414.8.2
• Serpent cursed. M414.8.3
• Birds cursed. M414.8.4
• Curse on wife's lover. M414.9
• Thief cursed. M414.10
• Man who betrays secrets cursed. M414.11
• Earth cursed. M414.12
• Curse on a deity. M414.13
• Curse: god to live life of a cat for twelve full years in house of huntsman on earth. M414.13.1
• Irrevocable curse. M415
• Curse given to negate good wish. Odin gives man life three times the normal; Thor ordains that in each he is to commit crime. Odin gives him the choicest weapons; Thor denies him landed property, etc. M416
• Curse: appetite of twelve men. Given with the gift of twelve men's strength. M416.1
• Curse: eternal life without eternal youth. M416.2
• Method of cursing. M418
• Curse by "building a fire of stones" in fireplace. The person who removes the stones is cursed. M418.1
• Enduring and overcoming curses. M420
• Release from curse with birth of child. M421
• Curse transferred to another person or thing. M422
• Curse removed when victims reform. M423
• Curse changed by God into blessing. M425
• Curse on everybody on earth who listens to the fatal mentioning of trolls' names, is evaded by person in cave, because he is in the earth. M427
• Curse mitigated by deity when superhuman task is performed. M428
• Miscellaneous ways to overcome curses. (Cf. D2071.1.) M429
• Release from curse by burning vomit. M429.1
• Release from curse by putting pins around horse's heart and then boiling it. M429.2
• Release from curse by burning animal in straw pile. M429.3
• Release from curse by heating the colter of the plow in the stove. M429.4
• Release from curse by pricking louse and hanging it on wall. M429.5
• Release from curse by putting a five cent piece in the churn. M429.6
• Release from curse by putting a piece of silver in the gun. M429.7
• Curses on persons. M430
• Curse: bodily injury. M431
• Curse: loss of eye. M431.1
• Curse: toads from mouth. M431.2
• Curse: fire to burn hands and feet. M431.3
• Curse: arm to fall off. M431.4
• Curse: hand of person cursed to drop off. M431.4.1
• Curse: wound not to heal. M431.5
• Wicked stepmother cursed to have fire lit under her. M431.6
• Curse: leprosy. M431.7
• Curse of sterility on wife of enemy. M431.8
• Curse: head to split in seven pieces. M431.9
• Curse: to be plagued by nightmares. M431.10
• Curse: to be carried off by evil spirit. M432
• Endless sleep given Endymion. M433
• Curse: to be swallowed by a siren. M434
• Curse: not to taste food from own table. Food always seized by harpies. M435
• Curse: prince to fall in love with witch's daughter. M436
• Curse: monstrous birth. M437
• Curse: "What I carry may you carry; what you carry may I carry." Cat thus causes ungrateful pregnant woman to bear cats and herself to bear twin girls. M437.1
• Jealous sisters curse the child one of them may have by the god Thor, so that it never will grow nor thrive. M437.2
• Curse: humiliation. M438
• Curse: man (poet) to kiss a leper. M438.1
• Curse: hero not to be able to stand the sight of blood. M438.2
• Girl bewitched so that no man will remain faithful to her. M438.3
• Curse: hero to remain as dead till the curser dies. M438.4
• Dying father condemns weak son to be servant of his brothers. M438.5
• Curse: failure in all undertakings. M441
• Curse: man's sword will fail in danger. M441.1