My paper is dedicated to the issue of the predetermination of death in Serbian and Croatian folk narratives about peopleís fate. This body of texts consist of stories in which demons - suðenice ("roðenice") and angels - act who predetermine manís fate. Folk stories about a fixed death are non-fantasy and most of them are close to the genre of Saga. These stories are not equally common in all parts of Serbia and Croatia, and we should emphasise that they are less common than the belief in the suðenice. As an area where these stories have been preserved we can single out East Serbia: Kosovo, Kruševac, Levač (material gathered in the early 20th century), Takovo (mid-20th century), Požarevac, Niš (material gathered in the early 1970s for an ethnographic atlas of Yugoslavia), Leskovac (1980s). The Croatian stories originate from Varaždin (late 19th century), Samobor (early 20th century), Dugo Selo and Ðakovo (1920s and 30s).