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1. His father didn't have any children for a long time; he consulted a diviner who told him that a hermit living in the mountains would be his next son but the father was impatient and killed the hermit; the son was born soon afterwards to mother Vaidehi. The diviner now foretold that the son would kill the father, so the father had the child thrown from the top of a tower; the son escaped with nothing more than a broken finger. In due course, he became his father's biggest enemy, and soon held his father captive and starved him to death. Who was the son?
2. He is a character immortalised in history; his father was foretold by an oracle that his son would kill him, so he pinioned the boy's feet and asked a slave to leave him on Mt.Cithaeron so that the wild beasts there might have a "small feast". The slave, however, took pity on the boy and handed him over to a shepherd; the child survived. After a strange twist of "fate", he was on his way to Thebes, when he had an altercation with a a rude old man; in the fight that ensued , he killed the man... whom he ultimately learned was in fact his father. Sigmund Freud immortalised his name forever in the annals of psychology. Who was he?
3. My father did no wrong to me but he made a big mistake - he decided to make my elder brother the King; to get back at him, I killed him and my mother. I am said to be Greek origin. I soon left home and was the first to invade Ireland after the Deluge. I had to fight the Fomors - a "demonic race". Who am I?
4. I am of Asian origin - they say I was drunk when I killed my father, mother, sister, brother and four other family members. I then tried to kill myself; I died in a hospital some days later. It all happened on June 1, 2001. My uncle became the next king. (I was loved by my people). Who am I?
5. They killed their father Sennacherib, king of Assyria, when he was worshipping in the temple of his God Nisroch. Who were they?
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