Sworn brethren and blood brethren avenge each other — Mythoi

Motif

Sworn brethren and blood brethren avenge each other.

Society. · Other social relationships. · Friendship. · view the constellation · filed as P312.2

Filed across the traditions

Icelandic *Boberg.

Within the index

Filed under Blood-brotherhood. Friends take oath of brotherhood by means of mixing their blood.

Filed beside it

Saint makes blood covenant with animals. (Cf. B279.) Drinking mixture of blood, milk, and wine as pledge of covenant Surviving blood brother to watch three nights in grave-mound

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