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Motif

Deeds of friendship – miscellaneous.

Society. · Other social relationships. · Friendship. · view the constellation · filed as P319

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Filed under Friendship.

8 finer motifs beneath it
Two friends captured by Moors have money to ransom only one. The ransomed one returns home, gets money and buys the other's freedom Man who has counseled friend in assassination asks to be killed on the other's body Friend's intercession saves man from execution The sacred partnership. Man is abducted by pirates and kept in slavery forty years. Upon his return his friend divides his earnings with him Hands of friends extend through sides of tombs and clasp in death Successful rival gives his lady to unsuccessful friend "Friendship without refusal." Friends bind themselves each to grant every desire of the other Danger of one saint voluntarily incurred by another
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 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

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