μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 13references

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.

  • TuamotuStimson MS (z-G 13/203)
  • AfricaStanley 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 covenantSworn brethren and blood brethren avenge each otherSurviving blood brother to watch three nights in grave-mound
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 thoughtsSworn brethren. Friends take an oath of lasting brotherhoodMilk-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

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