Society

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• Royalty and nobility – miscellaneous. P90
• Bathing pool reserved for royalty. P92
• Certain foods, ornaments, feathers, etc. reserved for royalty. P93
• Garment must be removed in presence of certain high chiefs. P94
• Impossible to refuse the request of a troubled nobleman. P95
• Other social orders. P100
• Royal ministers. P110
• Banished minister found indispensable and recalled. P111
• Minister acts as stepping-stone in midst of flame-filled trench so that king can step across from one side to the other. P116
• Church dignitaries. P120
• Rich men. P150
• Man so rich that people prefer the dung from his mules over king's gold and silver. P151
• Beggars. P160
• Beggars' many children. P161
• Lepers. P162
• Naked leper. P162.1
• Beggar rewarded by king for poem (song). P163
• Slaves. P170
• Female slaves. (Cf. P173.1.) P170.0.1
• Female slaves as medium of exchange (unit of value). P170.0.1.1
• Branding person makes him one's slave for life. P171
• Slave's ear bored. P171.1
• Bond woman with rope girding her loins. P171.2
• Requirement that slaves given as tribute should not know Irish. P172
• Captive king's sons made slaves. P173
• Captive king's daughter as slave. P173.1
• Killed enemy's son as slave. P173.2
• Captives from battle sold as slaves. P173.3
• Futile attempt to get rid of man by selling him to merchants as slave. P173.4
• Children of slave and free person become slaves. P174
• Slave killed. P175
• Slave hanged. P175.1
• Murder by slaves. P176
• Origin of thralls. P177
• Slaves freed. P178
• Knocking out a slave's tooth entitles him to freedom. P178.1
• Slaves released after definite term. P178.2
• Other social orders – miscellaneous. P190
• Social status of foreigners. P191
• Madmen (fools, professional fools). P192
• Professional fool. P192.1
• Fool as clever judge. P192.2
• Fool can walk on water. P192.3
• Fool can live under water. P192.4
• Fool makes friends with birds and beasts. P192.5
• Customary to shave heads of demented so that they may be recognized as such. P192.6
• Fool recognized by lump on his forehead. P192.7
• The family. P200
• Inherent enmity between members of a family. P201
• Feud between two branches of family. P201.1
• Person reproached for having no relatives. P202
• Game with ancestors' bones. A boy interrupts a game played with the bones of his father or other murdered relative. P203
• Refusal to fight relatives. P205
• Husband and wife. P210
• Wife chooses father's side in feud. Must choose between husband and father. P211
• Wife chooses father rather than husband or son. (Cf. P253.3.) Only one can be saved; he alone is irreplaceable. P211.1
• Mother kills husband for murdering their daughter. P211.2
• Wife more merciful than blood relations. They refuse to ransom condemned man; wife does so. P212
• Husband more merciful than blood relations. They refuse to ransom condemned woman; husband does so. P213
• Wife drinks blood of slain husband. P214
• Wife commits suicide (dies) on death of husband. (Cf. P16.4.1.) P214.1
• Wife only one able to persuade her husband. P216
• Parents and children. P230
• Mother prefers son, father daughter. P230.1
• Mother dislikes her children in forced marriage. P230.2
• Queen dislikes son who is unlike her and loves a poor girl: plots against him. P230.3
• Mother and son. P231
• Boy sickens from grief at mother's death. P231.1
• Son warns mother. (Hamlet.) P231.2
• Mother-love. P231.3
• Mother kills sons who lack courage to help her revenge her father and brothers, and are likely to betray the plot. P231.4
• Mother reveals fact that son is offspring of supernatural father. P231.5
• Mother (eagle) casts out dull, stupid changeling; rears bold, energetic son. P231.6
• Mother commits suicide when son wants to marry foreigner according to foreign rites. P231.7
• Mother and daughter. P232
• Wicked mother and her sons do everything to prevent daughter's marriage with beloved. P232.1
• Mother lets daughter unwittingly marry own father in order to avenge his raping. P232.2
• Father and son. P233
• Son as pledge for father who has committed murder. P233.1
• Young hero rebuked by his father. P233.2
• Father drives away bad son whom the mother prefers. P233.2.1
• Berserks scold their father who apparently without reason called their adversary invincible. P233.3
• Hero's son by giantess scorns his father's feebleness: still it is the son who is slain. P233.3.1
• Natural son preferred to legitimate. P233.4
• Oldest son responsible to father for welfare of others. P233.5
• Son avenges father. P233.6
• Son must threaten father before he will recognize him as son, even though he brings ring from his mother. P233.7
• Prodigal son returns. P233.8
• Son chastizes father for scorning mother. P233.9
• Father in vision reproves son about to succumb to temptation. P233.10
• Birthright transferred by father from the oldest son to another. (Cf. P251.7.) P233.11
• Father and daughter. P234
• Daughter marries her husband's slayer in order to save her old father from war. P234.1
• Father and daughter die at same time. P234.2
• Undutiful children. P236
• Folly of father's giving all property to children before his death. They abandon him. P236.1
• Supposed chest of gold induces children to care for aged father. They think that the chest of stones contains the inheritance. P236.2
• Not daring to curse father directly, son does so indirectly. P236.3
• Son deposes father and usurps throne. P236.4
• Undutiful children ridicule father while he is drunk and naked. P236.5
• Undutiful son overawes his father by threats. P236.6
• Undutiful son taught lesson showing his mother has suffered from him. P236.7
• Daughters flogged by parents. P237
• Parents descend to hell instead of sons. P241
• Pious children save their parents from hell. P241.1
• Children punished for fathers' sins. P242
• Brothers and sisters. P250
• Elder children to protect younger. P250.1
• Brothers. P251
• Friend unfaithful but brother faithful. Brought to test by actions at apparent death of hero. P251.1
• Warrior will not fight where his brother was slain. Place considered defiled. P251.2
• Brothers follow each other in exile. P251.3
• Brothers strive to avenge each other. P251.3.1
• Brothers scorn brother's wise counsel. P251.4
• Brothers kill brother because they fail to understand his wise answer. P251.4.1
• Two brothers. P251.5
• Two brothers follow and help each other on piracy, etc. P251.5.1
• Two brothers are confusingly like each other. P251.5.2
• Hostile brothers. P251.5.3
• Two brothers as contrasts. P251.5.4
• Brother unjustly imprisoned by brother. P251.5.5
• Man's descendants shall serve those of his brother. P251.5.6
• Several brothers. P251.6
• Three brothers. P251.6.1
• Four brothers. P251.6.2
• Six or seven brothers. P251.6.3
• Eight brothers. P251.6.4
• Nine brothers. P251.6.5
• Eleven brothers. P251.6.6
• Twelve brothers. P251.6.7
• Older brother has birthright, entitling him to a double share. (Cf. P233.11.) P251.7
• Repudiation of relationship of birth between man and his bad brother. P251.8
• Sisters. P252
• Two sisters. P252.1
• Sister kills sister. P252.1.1
• Three sisters. P252.2
• Seven sisters. P252.3
• Eight sisters. P252.4
• Nine sisters. P252.5
• Ten sisters. P252.6
• Eighteen sisters kill one another. P252.7
• Sister and brother. P253
• Sister's son. P253.0.1
• One sister and two brothers. P253.0.2
• One sister and three (four) brothers. P253.0.3
• One sister and ten brothers. P253.0.4
• One sister and six (seven, eleven, twelve) brothers. P253.0.5
• Brother about to drink blood of seemingly guilty sister. P253.1
• Sister faithful to transformed brother. P253.2
• Brother faithful to persecuted sister. P253.2.1
• Brother chosen rather than husband or son. Only one can be saved; he alone is irreplaceable. P253.3
• Girl comes to brother's aid when he is attacked. She slays the assailant and is eventually acquitted. P253.4
• Sister avenges brother's death. P253.5
• Sister warns brothers. P253.6
• Brothers persecute sister's lover and are in return killed by him. P253.7
• Clever sister saves life of brother. P253.8
• Woman dies of sorrow for death of brother. P253.9
• Relations by law. P260
• Father-in-law. P261
• Mother-in-law. P262
• Bad relations between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law. P262.1
• Brother-in-law. (Cf. K2211.1.) P263
• Widower marries wife's sister. P263.1
• Sister-in-law. (Cf. K2212.2.) P264
• Son-in-law. P265
• Idle sons-in-law driven away by gradually reducing their food. P265.1
• Foster relatives. P270
• Foster parents fined for blemish on child. P270.1
• Peasant and his wife as foster parents of exposed king's son. P270.2
• Parents kill son for slaying their foster son. P270.3
• Foster father. P271
• Magician as foster father. (Cf. N845.) P271.1
• Fisherman as foster father. P271.2
• Dwarf as foster father. (Cf. F451.5.1.) P271.3
• Living king's or nobleman's son as foster son of father's friend: considered an honor for the foster father. P271.4
• Foster father as constant helper. P271.5
• Foster children return foster father's love: avenge him, etc. P271.6
• King's son named after his father's foster father. P271.7
• Thor slays his foster father and takes himself the realm of Thrace. P271.8
• Foster mother. P272
• Witch foster mother. P272.1
• Foster mother as helper. (See all items under P272.) P272.2
• Former mistress as sons' foster mother. P272.3
• Foster brother. P273
• Faithful foster brother. P273.1
• Foster brothers avenge each other. P273.1.1
• King's son begs pardon for treacherous foster brother. P273.1.2
• Foster brother as constant adviser. P273.1.3
• Faithless foster brother. P273.2
• Promise of marriage to king's daughter induces warrior to fight foster brother. P273.2.1
• Earl's son seduces foster brother's sister and betrays himself. P273.2.2
• King's son falsely accuses foster brother of attempt to seduce his sister. P273.2.3
• Magic writing makes foster brothers enemies. P273.2.4
• Unable to hit man himself, enemy kills his foster brother. P273.3
• Children of Tuatha De Danann fostered by Milesians. P273.4
• Foster sister. P274
• Love between foster sister and foster brother. P274.1
• Foster son. P275
• Foster son commits adultery with foster father's wife. P275.1
• Steprelatives. P280