"What's Written in the Forehead Will Never Fail" : Karma, Fate, and Headwriting in Indian Folktales
Abstract/Sommario:
A widespread belief in India is that at birth a deity comes to write the destiny of the newborn child on his forehead. Like the well-known concept of karma. the motif of headwriting expresses that one must bear one's fate since no amount of effort can alter it. And yet folktales that use this motif often show that one's destiny can be fulfilled in surprising ways. The article examines five instances of the outwitting fate tale type that use the motif of headwriting to argue that thes ...; [leggi tutto]
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| Descrizione | "What's Written in the Forehead Will Never Fail" : Karma, Fate, and Headwriting in Indian Folktales/ Eliza F. Kent |
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IN Per: Asian Ethnology, vol. 68, n. 1 (2009) p. 1-26
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| ID scheda | 65942 |