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Motif

Test of friendship: the half-friend. A man kills a hog and tells his friends that he has killed a man and asks where he can hide the body. All of them drive him away and only his father's half-friend remains true to him in his feigned trouble.

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Filed across the traditions
  • Spanish Exempla Keller
  • Italian Novella *Rotunda
  • Jewish bin Gorion Born Judas IV 32, *274.
  • general *Type 893
  • general *Basset RTP XXII 10
  • general *Crane Vitry 185f. No. 120
  • general Herbert III 10, 55, 205
  • general *Penzer V 87 n. 1
  • general Alphabet No. 59
  • general Chauvin IX 15f.
  • general Hdwb. d. Märchens I 94b
  • general Oesterley No. 129
  • general Scala Celi 9a, 11b Nos. 60, 69. Icelandic: Sveinsson FFC LXXXIII p. xix, *Boberg
Within the index

Filed under Tests of friendship.

1 finer motif beneath it
Of three friends the least loved proves true in emergency
Filed beside it
Test of worthiness for friendship Test of friendship: substitute as murderer. A man in misery gives himself up as a murderer rather than endure further misery. His friend tries to take on himself the guilt and be substituted. The real murderer, touched by the generosity, confesses Test of friendship: to go with one to death. Everyman. He calls in Riches, Family, etc. Only Good Deeds remains with him The hare with many friends. In the final test none help and only her legs save her Test of friendship: death feigned to test debtor friends Test of friendship: the imagined refusal. Man wonders if his friend would lend him his palfrey. Decides he would refuse. Imagines that he has actually asked for the palfrey and has been refused. Cools toward his friend. The owner of the horse asks for an explanation. He agrees to lend him the horse and they are reconciled Test of friendship: the power of money. Spendthrift loses his friends in poverty Friends refuse to fight against each other Pregnant wife left in charge of friend Friendship kept up even during sons' jealousy and enmity Test of friendship: to take a slap publicly from friend Test of friendship: mourner says dead husband can be touched only by sinless person; volunteers for cremating body immediately disperse Test of friendship: loyalty to condemned friend
Carried in tale types

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