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Overview

Drashup overhears goddesses gathered in the tree beneath which he sleeps. They cast lots to determine a newborn girl’s future, including her husband and death. Their prediction names Drashup as her future spouse and says she will die after eating a sheep’s shoulder.

His violent attempt to prevent the marriage fails, and years later he marries the surviving woman without initially recognizing her. His efforts to prevent the predicted meal also fail. The goddesses belong to this narrated woodland assembly; the source supplies neither individual names nor an original Tibetan category that would justify equating them with a particular Buddhist divine group.

Female spirits who foretell marriage and deathSpecific translated narrative
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Origins & earliest records

Tibetan narrated traditions, as mediated by the Shelton collection

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Records & interpretation

Complete relevant tale, title-page credits, contents and Flora Beal Shelton’s preface read.

Selected bibliography

Documented works and useful reading. This is not a list of every appearance.

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    Tibetan Folk Tales

    A. L. Shelton, translator; Flora Beal Shelton, editor · 1925

    Tale 10, The Story of Drashup and the Goddesses, pp. 50–54

Family & connections

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Primary records and illustrations

Direct primary record

A. L. Shelton, Tibetan Folk Tales (St. Louis: United Christian Missionary Society, 1925), edited by Flora Beal Shelton

Historical English collection. Tale 10, The Story of Drashup and the Goddesses, pp. 50–54

Full tale directly read, including ending; original contents confirms printed locator. Preface read for mediation and absence of individual narrator identification. Primary witness of this historical translation, not an independently checked Tibetan original.

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References

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  1. Historical translated folktaleShelton, Tibetan Folk Tales (1925), 10, The Story of Drashup and the Goddesses, pp. 50–54Research access: 2026-10-05

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