Swearing on hand of king.
Ordaining the future. · Vows and oaths. · Taking of vows and oaths. · view the constellation · filed as M116.0.1
Motif
In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
- Literary CrystallizationMoby-Dick; or, The Whale, 67
- Greco-RomanThe Golden Asse (Metamorphoses of Apuleius), Book 4, Chapter 18
- Greco-RomanPausanias's Description of Greece, Book 4
- IndicThe Mahābhārata, Book 9, Section 65
- Literary CrystallizationFour Plays (The Tempest, A Midsummer-Night's Dream, The Winter's Tale, King Lear) — University Press Shakespeare, ed. Sidney Lee, The Winter's Tale Act 1
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 mythCross.