μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 12references

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.

  • IcelandicOlrik Sakses Oldhistorie I (1892) 59ff., *Boberg
  • Italian Novella*Rotunda
  • Jewish*Neuman, bin Gorion Born Judas 2d ed. IV 14, 20, 274
  • IndiaThompson-Balys
  • KoreanZong 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 namesCombatants become sworn brethrenFlower-friendship. Friends take oath of brotherhood by exchanging flowersHuman sons of animal companions go together on adventuresFriends born at same momentCovenant of friendshipCeremonial friendshipSaints exchange bachalls as mark of affectionFriendship between a prince and common man
Filed beside it
Friends want to divide good and evilFriends avenge each otherDying hero sends greetings to friendsFriends want their children to be friends tooDefeated enemy turns true friend. (Cf. P311.1.)One friend dies shortly after the otherMan wins wife for his friendFriendship possible only between equalsFriends given the power of reading each other's secret thoughtsBlood-brotherhood. Friends take oath of brotherhood by means of mixing their bloodMilk-brotherhood. Friends bound in brotherhood through partaking of milk from the same womanCombat of disguised friendsFriends offer to die for each other. (Bürgschaft.) Each falsely confesses crime so as to save the other. Neither guilty. Often combined with P325Friend sacrifices his life for the otherRefusal to believe that a friend has spoken ill of oneMan refuses to follow friend in wicked conduct
Carried in tale types

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