Motif
Ominous dream foretelling death
ominous_dream_foretelling_death
A motif of the Dream, Vision, and Altered Perception family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
3 occurrences
2 traditions
hindu (2) · native american plains (1)
hindu
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The Ramayan of Valmiki Canto LXII. Dasaratha Consoled. / Canto LXVI. The Embalming. / Canto LXVII. The Praise Of Kings. / Canto LXVIII. The Envoys.; lines 20007-20169 confidence: high
Bharat is frightened by a dire dream; companions try to comfort him with tales, music, dancing, jokes, and play quotations, but he remains silent and mournful until questioned.
Bharat’s dream terrifies him; he states that it means the king, Ráma, himself, or Lakshmaṇ must die, and gives a dream rule linking an ass-drawn chariot to a funeral pyre.
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The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse Canto LXII. Dasaratha Consoled. / Canto LXVI. The Embalming. / Canto LXVII. The Praise Of Kings. / Canto LXVIII. The Envoys.; lines 20005-20167 confidence: high
Bharat has a frightening dream after messengers enter the city; companions try to cheer him with stories, music, dancing, and jokes, but he stays silent and sorrowful.
The passage explicitly frames Bharat’s dream as foretelling dire events, and Bharat interprets it as meaning that the king, Ráma, Bharat, or Lakshmaṇ must die.
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native american plains
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Blackfoot Lodge Tales THE FAST RUNNERS / TWO WAR TRAILS / TWO WAR TRAILS 83 / TWO WAR TRAILS 85; lines 3847-3886 confidence: high
"Trouble is coming for us... I saw in my sleep our bodies lying on the prairie, dead."
E-kus'-kini reports seeing in sleep the party's bodies lying dead on the prairie and uses this as a reason to turn back.
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