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Keywords:
Augury, omen, portent, sign
Description of this motif: Signs, portents and omens are numerous in Andersen's fairy tales and stories. There are two main types of omens: omens evoked by experiments, socalled divination (asking the God(s) by, for example, tossing dice. Cf. Picturebook Without Pictures's First Evening), and omens that come unexpectedly, e.g. in a dream.
Overview
The tales are sorted by year. The leading numbers refer to the number of occurrences of the motif in the respective texts.
- 1 Dødningen (Danish title) (1830)
- 1 The Traveling Companion (1835)
- 1 The Wild Swans (1838)
- 1 First Evening (1839)
- 1 A Rose from Homer's Grave (1842)
- 1 The Jumpers (1845)
- 1 Little Tuck (1847)
- 1 Five Peas from a Pod (1852)
- 2 Ib and Little Christine (1855)
- 1 The Marsh King's Daughter (1858)
- 1 The Stone of the Wise Man (1858)
- 1 Ole, the Tower Keeper (1859)
- 1 Anne Lisbeth (1859)
- 3 The Ice Maiden (1861)
- 1 The Porter's Son (1866)
- 1 Godfather's Picture Book (1868)
- 1 The Dryad (1868)
- 1 The Comet (1869)
- 1 Danish Popular Legends (1870)
- 1 What Old Johanne Told (1872)
- 5 The Gate Key (1872)
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