Motif
appointed death named by a death deity
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A motif of the Death Attributed to Fate or Destiny family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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1 traditions
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West African Folk-Tales XXIII. KWOFI AND THE GODS / XXIV. THE LION AND THE WOLF / XXV. MAKU MAWU AND MAKU FIA / XXVI. THE ROBBER AND THE OLD MAN; lines 2262-2306 confidence: medium
Maku Mawu announces finding the ring; the people rejoice that the death God has chosen his death; the king has no excuse to harm him and he goes free.
The people say that the death God has chosen the death by which Maku Mawu will die, and the king cannot harm him after the ring is found.
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