73 motifs match “future”  ·  back to the chapters

• Intermediate future world. Residence for those whose good and evil deeds exactly counterbalance. A693
• Tribal customs established by diviner. (Man who sees future.) A1501
• Bees (ants) leave honey on lips of infant to show future greatness. B147.3.1.2
• Fountain bursts forth where water is not available for baptismal ceremonies of future saint. D925.1.0.1
• Magic object reveals future history. (Cf. D1812.3.) D1325
• Fact that woman bears future saint in womb renders her invisible. D1361.39
• Magic lake: whoever dies in it will have his desires fulfilled in future birth. (Cf. D921.) D1470.1.45
• Future revealed by "knowledge tooth". (Cf. D1009.) D1810.3.1
• Dream warns of danger which will happen in near future. Because of advance knowledge, the danger is averted. D1810.8.3.2
• Means of learning future. (Cf. D1810.8, D1976.2.) D1812.3
• Future learned by sitting on hide. D1812.3.1
• Future revealed in dream. (Cf. D1810.8, D1812.5.1.2, D1813.1.) D1812.3.3
• Future husband (wife) revealed in dream. D1812.3.3.9
• Future revealed by presentiment: "knowledge within". D1812.4
• Future learned through omens. D1812.5
• Second sight. Power to see future happenings. (Cf. D1812.) D1825.1
• Magic view of future lover. D1825.1.2
• Future spouse met during magic sleep. D1976.2
• Speaking skull tells about previous life, reveals future events, etc. E261.1.2
• Man's spirit in land of dead prophesies his own future death. E489.4
• The dead foretell the future. (Cf. E363.3, E576.) E545.17
• Few grains of earth from river bed translates soul destined to an evil future to Paradise. E754.1.7
• Fairy predicts future greatness of newborn child. F317
• Man meets his future descendants and is instructed by them. F1099.8
• Present values preferred to future. J320
• Present possessions preferred to future possibilities. J321
• Present possessions preferred to future. J321.4
• Don't injure yourself to insure your family's future. J322
• Care against future tyranny. J643
• Avoiding power of future enemy. J645
• Care against future imprisonment. J648
• Provision for the future. J701
• King for a year provides for future. Knowing that the custom is that he is to be deposed in a year, he sends provisions to a safe place out of the kingdom. J711.3
• In planning future, profit by the past. J752
• Daydreamer has lost his chance for profit. He has broken his master's pots while dreaming of future profits. He has therefore lost more than the master and excuses himself of blame. J1493
• Warrior consents to flee for the sake of future victory. K2378.2
• Future hero found in boat (basket, bushes). Legends of Moses, Cyrus, Beowulf and others. L111.2.1
• Future heroine found in hollow tree (calfshed, house "without door but only window and skylight"). L111.2.1.1
• Future hero found on shore. L111.2.2
• Future hero found on top of a tree. L111.2.3
• Future hero found in wolf den. L111.2.4
• Future hero (heroine) raised by animal. L111.7
• Dream (prophecy) of future greatness causes banishment (imprisonment). L425
• Retreat in return for cessation of attack. Host agrees to march back a day's journey if warrior will cease his feats of arms upon them until a certain battle in the future. M263
• Descent into hell to learn future. M302.3
• Tasks assigned so as to learn future. M302.5
• Prophecy: future greatness and fame. M310.1
• Prophecy: future greatness of unborn child. (Cf. M301.2.2, M301.5.1, M301.12, M359.3, M371.1.) M311
• Heavenly voices proclaim birth of future child hero. M311.0.4
• Prophecy of future greatness for youth. M312
• Dream of future greatness. M312.0.1
• Prophecy of future greatness given by animals. M312.0.2
• Prophecy of future greatness if boy lives to be eighteen. M312.0.3
• Prophecy of future empire for fugitive hero. M314.4
• Prophecy: future Golden Age. M324
• Prophecy: future success as hunter. M326
• Prophecy: death through future husband. M341.2.12
• Future husband (wife) foretold. M369.2.1
• Names of future kings foretold. M369.4
• Exposure (murder) of child to avoid fulfillment of prophecy of future greatness. Parent fears that the child will overcome him. M371.1
• Exposure of pregnant woman to avoid fulfillment of prophecy concerning future child. M376.1
• Prophecy of future greatness fulfilled when hero returns home unknown. Parents serve him. N682
• Parents successively bury alive their sons who mention something about smith's, potter's, washerman's, and tom-tom beater's trade, but keep fifth child who says something about being future king. S311.1
• Old woman's maledictions inform abandoned hero of his parentage and future. He has knocked her over (broken pots). S375
• Predestined lovers. Future wife or husband assigned by destiny. (Cf. T54.) T22
• Consummation of marriage postponed until revelation by dream of future of family has been secured. T165.1
• Future suicide weeps in mother's womb. T575.1.2
• Future poet chants spell in mother's womb. T575.1.4
• Future hero as child isolated from world kills increasingly larger game with superior weapons. T617.1
• Pillar of fire rises over woman pregnant with future saint. V222.0.1.1
• Man converted to belief in future life on deathbed. Feels sure nevertheless that nothing will come of it. V311.1
• When shower falls, small stone becomes larger, large stone wastes away. Vision of present and future state of Irish church. V515.1.3.1
• Vision of future. V516