Beschrijving
Tales of the Predestined Death (previously The Prince and the Storm). (Including the previous Types 934A, 934A1, 934B, 934E, 934A*, 934A**, 934B*–E*, 934E**, 937*, and 937A*.) This miscellaneous type comprises various tales dealing with the prediction of a person’s death. Examples:
The time and manner of the future death [M341.1, M341.1.4] of a newborn child (adult) is forecast by norns [M301.12] (nurse, judge, etc. ; in dream). The parents of the child overhear the prophecy (they learn it from another person).
Different manners of death are predicted: Death by natural forces (storm [M341.2.2], thunderstorm, falling tree), by an animal (wolf [M341.2.6], tiger, snake [M341.2.21], horse), by drowning [M341.2.3], when drinking water, when shearing sheep, by poisoning, on the wedding day [M341.1.1], by hanging [M341.2.21]. The three-fold death of a person caused by e.g. starving, burning and drowning [F901.1, F901.1.1, M341.2.4] is prophecied. Various precautions are taken in order to evade fate [M370] (the person is immured in a wall, isolated, hidden in a tower [M372]). Nevertheless the prophecy is fulfilled [M341.2, M370.1].
In some variants the predestined fate is averted (by a helper, stepmother, eagle, ruse). Cf. Types 506*, 899, 934D1.
The time and manner of the future death [M341.1, M341.1.4] of a newborn child (adult) is forecast by norns [M301.12] (nurse, judge, etc. ; in dream). The parents of the child overhear the prophecy (they learn it from another person).
Different manners of death are predicted: Death by natural forces (storm [M341.2.2], thunderstorm, falling tree), by an animal (wolf [M341.2.6], tiger, snake [M341.2.21], horse), by drowning [M341.2.3], when drinking water, when shearing sheep, by poisoning, on the wedding day [M341.1.1], by hanging [M341.2.21]. The three-fold death of a person caused by e.g. starving, burning and drowning [F901.1, F901.1.1, M341.2.4] is prophecied. Various precautions are taken in order to evade fate [M370] (the person is immured in a wall, isolated, hidden in a tower [M372]). Nevertheless the prophecy is fulfilled [M341.2, M370.1].
In some variants the predestined fate is averted (by a helper, stepmother, eagle, ruse). Cf. Types 506*, 899, 934D1.
Motief
A1
M341.1
M341.1.4
M301.12
M341.2.2
M341.2.6
M341.2.21
M341.2.3
M341.1.1
M341.2.21
F901.1
F901.1.1
M341.2.4
M370
M372
M341.2
M370.1
D1.
Oorspronkelijk Verhaaltype
934
Subgenre
sprookje

