Swearing on sacred relics

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Swearing on sacred relics.

Ordaining the future. · Vows and oaths. · Taking of vows and oaths. · view the constellation · filed as M114.4

Scholars’ trail — 1reference

The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our shelf are live links; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.

Irish myth*Cross.

Within the index

Filed under Oath taken on sacred object.

Filed beside it

Oath on sacred book Oath taken on holy stone. (Cf. M119.5.)Vows taken on holy swine Taking oath on cowdung Oath by touching sacred thread

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