Motif
Concealed identity of the prophesied threat
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A motif of the Prophecy and Systematic Divination family, within the sub-family Prophecy, Fulfillment, and Avoidance. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
islamicate folklore
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The Arabian Nights Entertainments The Arabian Nights Entertainments; lines 2937-3041 confidence: high
The boy explains that his father is a rich merchant, once childless; after a dream foretelling a son, wise men predict the boy will live happily until fifteen but then face danger, and that fifty days after Agib throws the brass horse statue from the mountain of adamant into the sea, the boy will fall by Agib's hand.
The narrator knows he is Agib, the person named in the prophecy, but takes care not to reveal this to the boy.
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