K145A. The image of a predator kills .23.26.-.28.30.
A person is predicted to die from a predatory beast. The image of the beast comes to life and kills a person.
Oraons, Marathi, Telugu, Kannada, Koreans, Ancient Greece, Slovenians, Russian written tradition, Persians.
South Asia. Oraons [the king had a son, the wise men predicted that a tiger would take him away on his wedding day; the young man was not allowed to go anywhere; after the wedding, his wife advised him not to be a coward; he said that he was not I saw tigers and then the wife made the tiger out of dough; the figure came to life, the tiger took the young man away and ate him]: Hahn 1906, No. 32:61-62; Marathi [Raja had a son; the goddess of fate Vidatha came to draw a line for him life, but a pen and pen accidentally fell out of her hand; when Raja's son is 18 years old, a lion will tear him to pieces on his wedding day; the king surrounded the guards of the palace, but the lion came off the image on the jug and killed the young man ; the king ordered his body to be preserved for six months; a snake saved him from fire in the forest; the serpent's wife offered to fulfill any wish of the Raja; brought Amrita, he revived his son]: Kudinova, Kudinova 1995:148-150; Telugu [y the king finally had an heir; astrologers predicted that when the young man reached marriageable age he would die from a tiger; the king keeps his son in a glass palace; during the wedding ceremony, a young man took the tiger away; it turned out that the tiger painted on the palace wall had become real]: Venkataswami 1923, No. 66:134-135; kannada [to have a son, the king has been standing in the water for 12 years with a stone on his head; this is puts pressure on Shiva and he agrees to give the king a son; but asks his wife if she wants an intelligent son who will live only 12 years, or a fool for a hundred years; she chooses a smart one; Shiva warned that when the boy will be 12 years old, he will die from a tiger; even images of tigers have been hidden in the palace; when the prince is 12, the boys tell him that he is a prince and should not play ball, but hunt; he goes to the forest, kills 7 tigers, sends carcasses on a cart home; on the way home he goes to the temple; his uncle curtained images of tigers, but the young man pulled back the curtains and the tigers from the paintings rushed at him, he immediately died; the prince's mother wanted to marry him - even if he was dead, sent him to look for a bride; Chennavva, the 12-year-old daughter of a poor brahmana, agreed to lift the family out of poverty; her mother prepared her for the wedding and wished she should be like Savitri; at the funeral, C. and the dead young man remained; C. sculpted Shiva's bull out of clay, who came to life, went up to S. and asked him to revive the young man; S. sent a tiger; C. asked him to eat it, not a dead young man; the tiger also began to ask Shiva; the same with lions, griffins, rakshasi; finally Shiva came down by himself and revived the young man; wedding]: Ramanujan 1997, No. 4:15-20.
China - Korea. Koreans [a person is predicted to be killed by a tiger after the birth of his seventh son; he builds fences and trap pits around the village; tells him to carve a wooden image of a tiger to know how he is looks; when I saw him, I got scared, pushed a heavy figure, she fell on him and killed him]: Engel 1926:6 f in Brednich 1964:90.
The Balkans. Ancient Greece [Perry 1952, No. 363; an old man dreams that his son was hunted to pieces by a lion; an old man is building a palace and imprisoning his son in it; animals are depicted on the walls of the palace; a young man out of anger an image of a lion hit; a splinter dug into the skin; the infection spread throughout the body; rock cannot be saved (=1991, No. 138 (Babriy): 398)]: Gasparov 1968, No. 339:162; Slovenians [(two similar variants ); man is predicted to die from a horse; he no longer approaches horses; but one day an equestrian statue of St. George and killed him]: Brednich 1964:84.
Central Europe. The Russian written tradition ["Jesop" by Simbirsk captain Pyotr Kashinsky (1675, of the two surviving lists, one dates back to 1684 and the other to the first third of the 18th century), which consists of three books and is a free translation of fables from the collection "Przypowieśći Aezopowe, z Łacińskiego na Polskie z pilnośćiů przełozone. Przydane sů k temu przypowieśći z Gabryela Greka y Laurenthego Abstemiusa", published in Krakow around 1600: a man dreamed that his son was killed by a lion; a man built a house and hid it in he had a son; various animals, including a lion, were painted on the walls; the son, looking at the picture, became angry with the lion and hit him with his palm; as a result, he hurt himself against an iron nail and died (Book 1: "Parable Jesop Frantsky")]: Tarkovsky, Tarkovskaya 2005, No. 113:398.
Iran - Central Asia. Persians [after the birth of his son, the king learns that the wolf will tear him to pieces when the young man marries; the king arranges the son's wedding in a securely isolated room; however, the clay in it the image of a wolf comes to life (Farce, Markazi)]: Marzolph 1984, No. 934B: 174.