μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

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

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

Filed across the traditions
  • Tuamotu Stimson MS (z-G 13/203)
  • Africa Stanley 274.
  • general *Type 1364
  • general **Encyc. Rel. Ethics II 717a, 857ff.
  • general **H. C. Trumbull The Blood Covenant (London, 1887)
  • general *Chauvin VII 20 No. 373D
  • general *Hibbard 145 n. 3
  • general Fb "blod" IV 46b
  • general Nitze MPh IX 291
  • general DeVries Acta Philologica Scandinavica III 106
  • general *Basset RTP VI 577–XXV 438 passim
  • general *Julian Revue d'Ethnographie et de Trad. Pop. II 1ff.
  • general **H. Tegnæus Blood-Brothers (Stockholm, 1952). – Irish myth: Cross: Icelandic: *Boberg
Within the index

Filed under Friendship.

4 finer motifs beneath it
Saint makes blood covenant with animals. (Cf. B279.) Drinking mixture of blood, milk, and wine as pledge of covenant Sworn brethren and blood brethren avenge each other Surviving blood brother to watch three nights in grave-mound
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 Sworn brethren. Friends take an oath of lasting brotherhood 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

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