Friendship — Mythoi

Motif

Friendship.

Society. · Other social relationships. · Friendship. · view the constellation · filed as P310

Filed across the traditions

India *Thompson-Balys.
general *Type 516
general *BP I 46
general **Rösch FFC LXXVII 96

Within the index

18 finer motifs beneath it

Friends want to divide good and evil Friends avenge each other Dying hero sends greetings to friends Friends want their children to be friends too Defeated enemy turns true friend. (Cf. P311.1.) One friend dies shortly after the other Man wins wife for his friend Friendship possible only between equals Friends given the power of reading each other's secret thoughts Sworn brethren. Friends take an oath of lasting brotherhood Blood-brotherhood. Friends take oath of brotherhood by means of mixing their blood Milk-brotherhood. Friends bound in brotherhood through partaking of milk from the same woman Combat of disguised friends Friends offer to die for each other. (Bürgschaft.) Each falsely confesses crime so as to save the other. Neither guilty. Often combined with P325 Friend sacrifices his life for the other Refusal to believe that a friend has spoken ill of one Man refuses to follow friend in wicked conduct Deeds of friendship – miscellaneous

Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)

Loyal friends refuse to fight against disgraced comrade. (Cf. P310.)

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