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..., her compassion for human suffering brought her to earth and to share our fate. ...for the child. She spins the cloth of life for the child, but weeps at the fate of some. The fact that the cloth can, to a degree, weave itself, indicates

...games. Also in the role-playing game [[wikipedia:Fate (role-playing game)|Fate]].

According to Norse mythology, when humanity was created, the fate Urd gives every human a being called Fylgia at birth which is to follow his

...ods and properties. Dalia is often confused with Laima, another goddess of fate. However, there is a distinction between the two. Laima is concerned in giv

...tch everything it chased. Zeus, faced with an innevitable contradiction in fate (an uncatchable fox being pursued by an unavoidable dog) turned the pair of

'''Laima''', also known as '''Laime''' or '''Laimas māte''', represents fate and luck in Latvian and Lithuanian mythologies. Aside from being the patron ...e, Laima is the most popular because she makes the final decision in one’s fate.

...abominations whose deific parents possessed portfolios relating to time or fate.

...that he will be defeated by Krishna. The demon is pleased, and awaits this fate with impatience. His flag falls during a battle occasioned by Aniruddha.

The Crow believe that divine fate saved the Crow that day.

...that is must have been an unknown species of [[sea serpent]] that met its fate there. However, later the anatomist Sir Everard Home in London asked if he

...ablet of Destinies and hid them on a mountaintop, so hoping to control the fate of all things. In one version of the legend, the gods sent Lugalbanda to re

...nd, residents may have been hesitant to turn in the assassin. Although the fate of Shotgun Man is unknown, he appeared to have disappeared from Little Ital

[[Category:Fate]]

...he personifications of destiny, '''Fates''' assigned to every person their fate or share in the scheme of things. The '''Moirae'' are the three sisters, robed in white, who decide on human fate.

...ar. The ''auð''- prefix can be related to words meaning "wealth", "ease", "fate" or "emptiness", with "wealth" being, perhaps, the most likely candidate. T

...r destiny and as a personification "the deity who assigns to every man his fate or his share," or the Fates. (in Ancient Greek '''Μοῖραι''' — ...-Clem. tom. vi. tab. B.); Clotho mentions a spindle or a roll (the book of fate); Lachesis points with a staff to the horoscope on the globe ; and Atropos

Curiously, anyone marrying into the family met the same fate as a blood Long Salt. Alice's mother died when the girl reached seven and s

It was at Frank's Place that a young woman who frequently wore blue met her fate. Very little is known about her; nobody has admitted that they knew her and

...In a poem by Swedish poet Erik Johan Stagnelius, a little boy pities the fate of the nix, and so saves his own life. In a poem by Swedish poet E. J. Stagnelius, a little boy pities the fate of the nix, and so saves his own life. In the poem, arguably Stagnelius' mo

:Of the fate of the gods, | the mighty in fight. - [http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/poe/

...ood of the Hydra, it gave him an agonizing death. Pholus also had the same fate, when one of the poisonous arrows fell from his hand penetrating his foot.

...s she jumped off the pier, into the cold and deep waters of Lake Huron. As fate would have it, the young lovers were not reunited. Her ghost has been said

and thus toys with one’s fate.

...ing to Hesiod, the Keres were daughters of Nyx, and as such the sisters of Fate (Moirae), Doom (Moros), Death and Sleep (Thanatos and Hypnos), Strife (Eris ...', "The Ker as Evil Sprite" p 170. See also Harrison's section "The Ker as Fate" pp 183-87).

...entually enter a state of suspended animation, called ''long dreaming'', a fate considered far worse than simply dying. It forms a tough, waterproof membra

...f birth from a womb, etc, but is achieved directly, and such evil spirits' fate is pre-determined as to how they shall achieve liberation from that yoni, a

...osts of the dead allegedly possessing supernatural powers that control the fate of seafarers on the waves.

...ers, warriors and sorcery. He was associated with the notion of destiny or fate and with the jaguar, and was known for inciting wars between peoples. ...n a baby was conceived, it was placed there by Tezcatlipoca to decided its fate as he prophesised the success or failure of the newborn’s future, as well

*'''William Bates''' met his fate on September 3, after having shared some drinks with Knowles in Lima, Ohio.

==The binding of Loki and his fate at [[Ragnarök]]==

...ed several times: "A kresnik is born! A kresnik!" to magically insures its fate for the better.

...it proceeds to fill with sea water to drown them. To avoid this disastrous fate, it is necessary to give him a bottomless barrel. This folktale is likely r

...enemy and a test towards mankind, the result of which will determine one's fate in the hereafter (Paradise or Hell). However Satan is an alternative name o

...hese filmsy constructions in the process. Desperate to avoid this terrible fate, most people often paint their roofs.

expert at fate-decreeing: decreed for it a good fate.

A man might save himself from this fate if when the pontianak turns its back to reveal the hole in the back of her

**If so, what are these rewards and punishments? Who is assigned to which fate? ...sider regular life as relatively unimportant, except for determining one's fate in the afterlife. Life is just a provisional situation, and the metaphor of

...ding to some tales, the evil Chinese concubine Pao Sze/Pao-Ssu escaped her fate and fled to Japan, where she became a court lady named Tamamo-no-Mae and ca

* ''[[Fate Magazine]],'' with the slogan "True Reports of the Strange and Unknown" has

...th circumstances and events that would cause a death earlier or later than fate deems; they then act as a psychopomp. These shinigami were once people who

...reated, but Ahriman refused, and Ahura Mazda showed Ahriman his inevitable fate. Ahriman was stunned and fell into the void for a period of time. When he a ...rupt the Grail itself. The figure's role is further expanded in the sequel Fate/hollow ataraxia, where it acts as the servant Avenger.

...the closer they get. Some die on the way, some live to face the terrifying fate their pilgrimage is building to. ...world. The threads are brought together in the twentieth century when the fate of the living and the living dead is rewritten.

*Demons of fate

...ake, that the Harpyiai should never visit Phineus' house again, such being Fate's decree. This oath prevailed upon the noble brothers, who wheeled round an

...o the water, and pulls the ship into the depths of the sea.<br>Such is the fate of all who pay no heed to the Devil and his wiles, and place their hopes in

...about the tomte, such as that having a tomte on the farm meant you put the fate of your soul at risk, or that you had to perform various non-Christian rite

...en scorched, singed, and roasted, finally to be consumed by fire. The same fate awaits Apep's confederates and everything which formed parts of him, them,

...the song "At the Sound of the Demon Bell" by the black metal band Mercyful Fate

...o abandon the infant, leaving it to death by exposure -- or whatever other fate befell it, commonly acknowledged to be slavery and prostitution. Another m

Monkey ends up judging the fate of the recently deceased Prime Minster Qin Hui. He tortures Qin into confes

Hera almost caught [[Zeus]] with a mistress named Io, a fate avoided by [[Zeus]] turning Io into a beautiful white heifer. However, Hera

:''ever green, it stands over the well of fate."

- From Dracula was a Woman McNally, R The Fate Of Elizabeth Bathory

...ine volumes apparently never came upon the special prophecy concerning the fate of Rome. In time it was deemed necessary to find a source that would throw

...is associates see Ben peering through a window. In a rather cruel twist of fate, the associate takes Ben for a zombie and fires his rifle, hitting Ben in t

...only to bring the Great Clearing Off and will no doubt be served the same fate as the rest of Earth's denizens.

*In the Japanese visual novel and anime series "Fate/Stay Night", the Servant Rider is none other than Medusa herself.

...sortiarius'', from ''sors'' "fate", apparently meaning "one who influences fate." ''Sorceress'' appears also in the late 14th century, while ''sorcerer'' i ...to leap from the pages of fantasy to actual magical practice; such was the fate of the ''[[Necronomicon]]'', invented as fiction by [[H. P. Lovecraft]], wh

...ys to be dressed in only white, though they all practically share the same fate. We have Green Ladies, Brown Ladies, White Ladies...

...uld utterly cease to exist. To the Egyptians, this was the worst possible fate that they could imagine, and therefore went to extremes to safeguard their

...mb which caused his affliction, and the ironic twist of his self-inflicted fate has been one of the most persistent common themes. Arie Kaplan describes th

...ersion (not mentioned by name but most likely a copy) goes with him to his fate in "The Statement of Randolph Carter" (1919). A version is held in Kingspor

...series, a recurring joke involves an allusion to the vague but unpleasant fate of a "Mr. Hong", who "opened The Three Jolly Luck Takeaway Fish Bar on the

...njured or dies by a silver bullet, the creature’s master is dealt the same fate.

...heir backs, so that she could watch their faces contort in horror at their fate.

For now it seems Malus has accepted his fate and has returned to his home of Hag Graef to lead its armies to war. None k

...esent at periodical sacrifice on Mount Lycaon was said to suffer a similar fate. ..., who suffered through the witchcraft of others, or simply from an unhappy fate, and who as wolves behaved in a truly touching fashion, fawning upon and pr

...t. When the young Tobias is about to marry her, Asmodeus purposes the same fate for him; but Tobias is enabled, through the counsels of his attendant angel

...lier in ‘Erubin, and is more than likely inadvertently responsible for the fate of the Lilith myth for centuries to come:

...ed to die," mostly in Scotland, which tied in with the original meaning of fate. It has now gained the meaning "touched by otherworldly or magical quality;

...adaptations &ndash; Mary Shelley saw a production of ''Presumption; or The Fate of Frankenstein'', a play by Richard Brinsley Peake, in 1823. A French tran

...s. ix. 26. § 2), respecting her stay at Thebes and her connection with the fate of the house of Laius.

...ar language. These Martians are dying out , but resign themselves to their fate. Unlike Earth, their planet is not corrupted and they live in harmony with

...Lt.JG George H. Bush, was picked by submarine USS Finback, and avoided the fate.) This case was investigated 1947 in war crimes trial, and of 30 Japanese s ...n, and they show no sign of hunger. The lyrics don't explicitly reveal the fate of the missing man (the titular character Timothy), but the conclusion to b

...y reason of thy brightness." Afterwards the passage describes the eventual fate of this corrupted cherub: "therefore will I bring forth a fire from the mid

...Ciacco ("Hog" - probably a nickname) regarding strife in Florence and the fate of prominent Florentines. (Canto VI) Dante shares in the sin by being a "g ...that sometimes a soul falls here before the time that Atropos (the [[Fates|Fate]] who cuts the thread of life) should send it. Their bodies on Earth are i

:6. ^ Glass, Marty. YUGA: An Anatomy of Our Fate. Sophia Perennis, 2004 (ISBN 0900588292)

...y the peasant but admonished her to work hard or she would suffer the same fate.

...out of birth from a womb, but is achieved directly, and such evil spirits' fate is pre-determined as to how they shall achieve liberation from that '''yoni

...e peasants, tired of the depredations of the Impaler, abandoned him to his fate. Dracula was forced to march to meet the Turks with the small forces at his

:''How, winged with fate, their elf-shot arrows fly,''

...njured or dies by a silver bullet, the creature’s master is dealt the same fate.

...cal system, poorly connected to the material world, it suffered the common fate of other esoteric disciplines such as [[astrology]] and [[Kabbalah]]: exclu