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- Fate controls gods. A196.1
- God of fate. A463
- God of fate in shape of golden frog. A463.0.1
- The Fates. Goddesses who preside over the fates of men. A463.1
- The Fates weave. A463.1.1
- Three fates in house in woods allot destiny to people. A463.1.2
- Earth-tree. Tree of life or fate. A878
- Theft of tablets of fate. From heaven by bird Zu. A1417
- Dream by a (pregnant) woman about fate of her unborn child. D1812.3.3.8
- Fate of ghosts of persons eaten by tigers. E419.12
- Fairy mistress prophesies mortal lover's fate in battle. F302.7
- Fairy presides at child's birth. Sometimes the Norns, the Fates, etc. F312
- Recognition by overheard conversation with flax. By comparing her fate with that of the flax the heroine is able to reveal herself. H13.2.6
- Task: bringing something ever-increasing (ambition); something ever-decreasing (life); something which neither increases nor decreases (one's fated lot); and something which both increases and decreases (universe). H1075
- Fate of parents revealed in dream. Mother shown in Hell; father in Heaven. J157.2
- King's capriciousness censured: the ass in the stream. A nobleman seeing an ass letting water in a river remarks that it reminds him of his king. He explains to the king that just as the ass puts water where it is already plentiful, so the king awards wealth where it is not needed. The king says that it is all in the nature of the nobleman's fate. Subsequent events prove this. J1675.3
- Queen grieves herself to death over fate of her children after her death. J2063.1
- Why go all the way to fair? Man robbed of his plate of cakes half way to fair asks another vendor, "Why go to the fair, when half way up people come demanding your plate?" Vendor goes on and meets with same fate. K475.3
- Goddess in disguise visits earth and is waylaid by thieves. They set her free after she promises to tell them the fate of the new-born prince. K1811.0.2
- Fate takes form of Brahmin's pupil in order to lure him to his prophesied death. K1811.4.1
Episodes
- Cuchulain of Muirthemne: The Story of the Men of the Red Branch of Ulster · Ch. 7 FATE OF THE SONS OF USNACH
- Gods and Fighting Men: The Story of the Tuatha de Danaan and of the Fianna of Ireland · Ch. 24 BOOK FIVE: THE FATE OF THE CHILDREN OF LIR
- Old Celtic Romances: Translated from the Gaelic · Tale 1 THE FATE OF THE CHILDREN OF LIR;
- Old Celtic Romances: Translated from the Gaelic · Tale 2 THE FATE OF THE CHILDREN OF TURENN;
- Old Celtic Romances: Translated from the Gaelic · Tale 13 THE FATE OF THE SONS OF USNA.[CLXIX.]