Motif
doom prophecy before raid
doom_prophecy_before_raid
A motif of the Prophecy and Systematic Divination family, within the sub-family Battle and War Portents. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
celtic irish
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Heroic Romances of Ireland The Apparition of the Great Queen to Cuchulain; literal translation confidence: high
The woman reappears as a black bird, claims that she guards Cuchulain's death, and says that the cow she brought from the fairy-mound of Cruachan to breed by the Black Bull of Cualnge will lead to the Tain bo Cualnge.
The Morrigan says she guards Cuchulain's death and links the cow's breeding directly to the beginning of the Tain bo Cualnge.
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