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Thanks to Death, the 13th child had a very successful career as a physician. He screwed it up through his own overconfidence, and Death even let him get away with tricking him one time. Objectively the 13th child was not unlucky; Death's godfathership was highly beneficial to him, despite the bad end.
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* ThirteenIsUnlucky: The main character is the 13th child of a poor family, and has Death as a godfather. Unfortunate situations will ensue.
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* 13IsUnlucky: The main character is the 13th child of a poor family, and has Death as a godfather. Unfortunate situations will ensue.
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* 13IsUnlucky: The main character is the 13th child of a poor family, and has Death as a godfather. Unfortunate situations will ensue.
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Self-explanatory.
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"Godfather Death" is a fairy tale with many variants, all built on the premise of a mortal gaining [[TheGrimReaper Death]] as a godfather. The best known variant is ''Der Gevatter Tod'', collected by Creator/TheBrothersGrimm in ''Children's and Household Tales'' (''Kinder- und Hausmärchen'') -Tale #44-. It goes like this:
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"Godfather Death" is a fairy tale with many variants, all built on the premise of a mortal gaining [[TheGrimReaper Death]] as a godfather. The best known variant is ''Der Gevatter Tod'', collected by Creator/TheBrothersGrimm in ''Children's and Household Tales'' (''Kinder- und Hausmärchen'') -Tale #44-. It goes like this:
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[[http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/godfatherdeath/index.html "Godfather Death"]] is a fairy tale with many variants, all built on the premise of a mortal gaining [[TheGrimReaper Death]] as a godfather. The best known variant is the one in [[Creator/TheBrothersGrimm Grimm's Fairy Tales]] and goes like this:
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It can be read [[https://www.grimmstories.com/en/grimm_fairy-tales/godfather_death here]], [[https://web.archive.org/web/20200122171338/http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/godfatherdeath/index.html here]], [[https://sites.pitt.edu/~dash/grimm044.html here]] and [[https://www.gutenberg.org/files/5314/5314-h/5314-h.htm#chap44 here]]. Different versions of the tale can be found [[https://sites.pitt.edu/~dash/type0332.html#contents here]].
In the Aarne–Thompson–Uther Index, it is a Type 332, ''Godfather Death''.
In the Aarne–Thompson–Uther Index, it is a Type 332, ''Godfather Death''.
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* DealWithTheDevil: Defied: The Devil offers to give the poor man's son money aplenty and "all the joys of the world as well" if the man will chose him as the boy's godfather. But the man refuses, because the Devil is a bad egg.
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* DealWithTheDevil: Defied: The Devil offers to give the poor man's son money aplenty and "all the joys of the world as well" if the man will chose him as the boy's godfather. But the man refuses, because he expects the Devil to double-cross them. It is implied the Devil hopes to get the son's soul in the bargain by seducing him to a bad egg.life of sin.
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* ItOnlyWorksOnce: When the physician sees the king is destined to die because Death is standing at the foot of the bed, he turns the bed around so that Death is standing at the head of the bed, letting the physician save the king's life with the magic herb. Death is outraged at this betrayal, but spares his godson's life out of love. But he warns him that if he ever pulled that stunt a second time, he would pay the consequences. When the physician does the same trick to save the life of the king's daughter, Death makes good on his threat and takes the physician's life.
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* DealWithTheDevil: Defied: The Devil offers to give the poor man's son money aplenty and "all the joys of the world as well" if the man will chose him as the boy's godfather. But the man refuses, [[GenreSavvy for obvious reasons]].
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* DealWithTheDevil: Defied: The Devil offers to give the poor man's son money aplenty and "all the joys of the world as well" if the man will chose him as the boy's godfather. But the man refuses, [[GenreSavvy for obvious reasons]].because the Devil is a bad egg.
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* DealWithTheDevil: Defied: The Devil offers to give the poor man's son money aplenty and "all the joys of the world as well" if the man will chose him as the boy's godfather. But the man refuses, because the Devil is a bad egg.[[GenreSavvy for obvious reasons]].
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Loosely adapted as 1960 Mexican film ''Film/{{Macario}}''.
