u/Cool-Butterscotch526

statistically you might recognize this as the massacre of the innocents from the new testament, but this story archetype obviously predates the massacre of the innocents, considering how common the whole "taking extreme measures to prevent/avoid a prophecy and therefore paradoxically creating the situation that was prophesied" plot device is in ancient stories (such as the birth of moses in the book of exodus and the kronos myth, to name a few)