Military customs

Motif

Military customs.

Society. · Government. · Military affairs. · view the constellation · filed as P557

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

Middle EasternThe Thousand and One Nights, commonly called, in England, The Arabian Nights' Entertainments, Chapter 1
Middle EasternThe Thousand and One Nights, commonly called, in England, The Arabian Nights' Entertainments, Chapter 4
ReferenceThe Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (abridged), Chapter XIVXIV. The Succession to the Kingdom in Ancient Latium
IndicThe Mahābhārata, Book 3, Section CXV

Scholars’ trail — 1reference

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.

Irish mythCross.

Within the index

Filed under Military affairs.

7 finer motifs beneath it

Warrior not entitled to ransom if captured without arms Pledge with enemy to be kept Stones erected where enemy falls Customs concerning single combat Warrior disgraced by slaying of those under his protection Warrior dies with face toward foe Divorce given to wives before leaving for battle

Filed beside it

Army Battle formations Weapons Battle-cairn. Losses reckoned by number of stones remaining in pile after each survivor has removed one Defeat in battle Challenge to battle Tournaments

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