Blood covenant. Contract written (or signed) with blood

Motif

Blood covenant. Contract written (or signed) with blood.

Ordaining the future. · Bargains and promises. · Bargains and promises. · view the constellation · filed as M201.1

Scholars’ trail — 9references

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.

Jewish*Neuman
IndiaThompson-Balys.
general Hdwb. d. Abergl. II 272ff., 1026
general *Wilken Verspreide Geschriften I 539ff.
general *W. Robertson Smith Religion of the Semites 3d ed. 270ff.
general *Penzer I 98 n.
general *Fb "skrive"
general "blod" IV 47b
general ** H. C. Turmbull The Blood Covenant (London, 1887). Breton: Sébillot Incidents s. v. "sang", "pacte"

Within the index

Filed under Making of bargains and promises.

2 finer motifs beneath it

Blood of contractors mixed to seal bargain Pact with devil signed in blood. (Theophilus.) (Cf. M211.)

Filed beside it

Bargain with God (by holy man)Covenant between heathen and Israelites Covenant confirmed by eating together Spitting of all parties into vessel to seal bargain Covenant between saints confirmed by cutting off their thumbs Covenant confirmed by marriage Covenant confirmed by hostages

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