μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Sworn brethren. Friends take an oath of lasting brotherhood.

Society. · Other social relationships. · Friendship. · view the constellation · filed as P311

Filed across the traditions
  • Icelandic Olrik Sakses Oldhistorie I (1892) 59ff., *Boberg
  • Italian Novella *Rotunda
  • Jewish *Neuman, bin Gorion Born Judas 2d ed. IV 14, 20, 274
  • India Thompson-Balys
  • Korean Zong in-Sob 63 No. 35.
  • general *Type 516
  • general Rösch FFC LXXVII 98
  • general *Hibbard 68 n. 7, 145 n. 3
  • general Child IV 146f.
  • general Wesselski Märchen 187 No. 2
  • general *Krappe Bulletin Hispanique XXXIX 17
  • general *Abeles "Die Burgschaft als Motif in der jüdischen Literatur" Monatsch. f. Geschichte u. Wissenschaft der Juden LX 213ff., 263ff. English: Wells 158 (Amis and Amiloun)
Within the index

Filed under Friendship.

9 finer motifs beneath it
Friends exchange names Combatants become sworn brethren Flower-friendship. Friends take oath of brotherhood by exchanging flowers Human sons of animal companions go together on adventures Friends born at same moment Covenant of friendship Ceremonial friendship Saints exchange bachalls as mark of affection Friendship between a prince and common man
Filed beside 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 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
Carried in tale types

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