Society

851 motifs · page 3 of 5

• Stepfather. P281
• Stepfather as foster father. P281.1
• Stepfather murdered. P281.2
• Stepmother. P282
• Realm ruled by stepmother, while king is absent. P282.1
• Stepmother mourns her stepsons' death, not her own son's. P282.2
• Stepmother in love with stepson. (Cf. T418.) P282.3
• Love of stepmother who has killed her husband refused. P282.3.1
• Stepbrother. P283
• Stepbrothers kill devastating monsters. P283.1
• Stepsister. (Cf. K2212.1.) P284
• Other relatives. P290
• Grandfather. P291
• Grandfather as foster father. P291.1
• Grandmother. P292
• Grandmother as foster mother. P292.1
• Uncle. P293
• Mother's brother as foster father. P293.1
• Mother's brother as helper. P293.2
• Children take after their mother's brothers. P293.2.1
• Hero killed in fighting with father's brother. P293.3
• Young prince sent to his father's mother's brother. P293.4
• Father's brother avenged. P293.5
• Aunt. P294
• Paternal aunt as aid. P294.1
• Cousins. P295
• Godparents. P296
• Godfather. P296.1
• Godmother. P296.2
• Nephew. P297
• Niece. P298
• [First Edition: P299. Additional relatives.] P299[1st ed.]
• Friendship. P310
• Friends want to divide good and evil. P310.1
• Friends avenge each other. P310.2
• Dying hero sends greetings to friends. P310.3
• Friends want their children to be friends too. P310.4
• Dying man asks friends to let his son inherit his friendship together with his father's weapons. P310.4.1
• Friends' children become enemies. P310.4.2
• Defeated enemy turns true friend. (Cf. P311.1.) P310.5
• One friend dies shortly after the other. P310.6
• Man wins wife for his friend. P310.7
• Friendship possible only between equals. P310.8
• Friends given the power of reading each other's secret thoughts. P310.9
• Sworn brethren. Friends take an oath of lasting brotherhood. P311
• Friends exchange names. P311.0.1
• Combatants become sworn brethren. P311.1
• Flower-friendship. Friends take oath of brotherhood by exchanging flowers. P311.2
• Human sons of animal companions go together on adventures. P311.3
• Friends born at same moment. P311.4
• Covenant of friendship. P311.5
• Ceremonial friendship. P311.6
• Saints exchange bachalls as mark of affection. P311.7
• Saints exchange bells. P311.7.1
• Friendship between a prince and common man. P311.8
• Blood-brotherhood. Friends take oath of brotherhood by means of mixing their blood. P312
• Saint makes blood covenant with animals. (Cf. B279.) P312.0.1
• Drinking mixture of blood, milk, and wine as pledge of covenant. P312.1
• Sworn brethren and blood brethren avenge each other. P312.2
• Surviving blood brother to watch three nights in grave-mound. P312.3
• Milk-brotherhood. Friends bound in brotherhood through partaking of milk from the same woman. P313
• Friendship starts at babyhood: two babies exchanged. P313.1
• Combat of disguised friends. P314
• Friends offer to die for each other. (Bürgschaft.) Each falsely confesses crime so as to save the other. Neither guilty. Often combined with P325. P315
• Competition in friendship: prisoner and jailor. Officer in charge of prison offers to let his friend escape, though his own life will be forfeited. The friend refuses; tells officer to let king think he has escaped and if the king demands his life the officer can produce the prisoner. King hears of the generosity and forgives the prisoner. P315.1
• Friend gives false witness to set free his accused friend. P315.2
• Friend sacrifices his life for the other. P316
• Man knowing of murder plot against his friend disguises and is killed in his place. (Cf. P361.1.) P316.1
• Refusal to believe that a friend has spoken ill of one. P317
• Refusal to believe that a friend will harm one. Alexander drinks cup said to have been poisoned by his friend. P317.1
• Man refuses to follow friend in wicked conduct. P318
• Deeds of friendship – miscellaneous. P319
• Two friends captured by Moors have money to ransom only one. The ransomed one returns home, gets money and buys the other's freedom. P319.1
• Man who has counseled friend in assassination asks to be killed on the other's body. P319.2
• Friend's intercession saves man from execution. P319.3
• The sacred partnership. Man is abducted by pirates and kept in slavery forty years. Upon his return his friend divides his earnings with him. P319.4
• Hands of friends extend through sides of tombs and clasp in death. P319.5
• Successful rival gives his lady to unsuccessful friend. P319.6
• "Friendship without refusal." Friends bind themselves each to grant every desire of the other. P319.7
• Danger of one saint voluntarily incurred by another. P319.8
• Hospitality. Relation of host and guest. P320
• Hospitality for a whole winter. P320.1
• Hospitality for (three) years. P320.2
• Salt of hospitality. Eating a man's salt creates mutual obligation. P321
• Guest given refuge. Murderer of a man's father takes refuge in his house and is saved by him. P322
• Nobleman forces escaping prisoner to accept his hospitality. Intercedes for his pardon. P322.1
• Guest in disguise or under false name. (Cf. K1831.) P322.2
• Refugee entertained in holy place (church, monastery, etc.). P322.3
• Hosts refrain from telling guest of death in household. P323
• Host greets guest with gifts. P324
• Host treats guest with food and everything possible. P324.1
• Guests fed before being questioned. P324.2
• Guests' life inviolable. P324.3
• Host surrenders his wife to his guest. The guest unwittingly falls in love with the wife. The host, on being informed, out of pure generosity repudiates the wife and has her marry the guest. (Often joined with P315.) P325
• Guest begets son with his host's daughter. P325.1
• If host does not return, the house shall belong to the guest. So declares the host as he departs on a mission for the guest. P326
• Barmecide feast. Host places imaginary feast before guest, who accepts it in the same spirit. Guest's courtesy is rewarded by real feast. P327
• Strangers entertained by family to whose hitching-ring they happen to tie their horses. Thus confusion avoided as to where strangers are to be entertained. P328
• Refusal to receive preferred help until series of stories has been told. P331
• Selfish guest expels host. Porcupine asks rabbit for hospitality. When rabbit complains of being pricked, porcupine tells him to leave if he does not like it. P332
• Shabby hospitality forces guests to leave. P334
• Guests accused of greediness. P334.1
• Poor person makes great effort to entertain guests. P336
• Poor host and his wife kill themselves because they are unable to entertain expected guests. P336.1
• Wife scolds husband's hospitality, as he really has nothing to give. P336.2
• Poor peasant closes the eyes in order not to see guest eat: later suicide. P336.3
• King demands work, sport or entertainment from winter guests. P337
• Christian king makes baptism a condition for hospitality during the winter. P337.1
• Sitting in a circle of feasts. P338
• Teacher and pupil. P340
• Druids as teachers. P340.0.1
• Teacher dies of pride over success of pupil. P341
• Student enters competition with his master. P342
• Student challenges his fencing master. Is overcome by the latter's tricks. P342.1
• Teacher threatens to curse pupils if they disobey. P343
• Master and servant. P360
• Faithful servant. P361
• Faithful servant dies for his master. Puts on his master's clothes so as to be slain in his place. (Cf. P316.) P361.1
• Faithful servant kills his master's murderer and is killed in turn. P361.1.1
• Faithful servant wants to follow on dangerous quest, where he alone is killed. P361.1.2
• Hero's charioteer faithful to master till death. P361.1.3
• Faithful servant remains at home and fights for exiled hero. P361.2
• Faithful servant sacrifices sons to save life of king. Sons resuscitated and servant enriched. P361.3
• Faithful nurse tries to save tyrant's daughter by exposing her own in her place. P361.4
• Abandoned maiden helped by her faithful nurse. P361.5
• Faithful servant dies avenging master's death. P361.6
• Captain will not betray king's secret. He refuses to betray where recruits are being raised. P361.7
• Faithful servant undergoes torture for sake of his master. P361.8
• Crow lets itself be caught so as to save king of crows. P361.9
• Faithful servant entrusted with care and education of crown prince. P362
• Faithless servant. P365
• Faithless men-servants corrupt the maids in the household. P365.1
• Servant planning to possess his master's goods. Has already possessed his wife. P365.2
• Master demands that servant tell him of his faults as well as of his good qualities. P366
• Trades and professions. P400
• Son insists on following father's trade. This has been kept secret at request of dying father who was unsuccessful. Son learns from mother. P401
• Laborers. P410
• Peasant. P411
• Peasant refuses to sell possessions to king. (Miller of Sanssouci.) P411.1
• Peasant and his wife in hut near castle as contrasts to king and queen. P411.1.1
• Peasant is cutting wood in front of his house as guests arrive. P411.2
• Wounded hero finds shelter and is cured in peasant's house. P411.3
• Hero stays overnight in peasant's house, to which he accidentally comes, and where he gets advice and direction. (Cf. H1232.4.) P411.4
• Shepherd. P412
• Shepherd as hero. P412.1
• Life of shepherd proper preparation for ruler. P412.1.1
• Swineherd. (Cf. L113.1.1.) P412.2
• Hero as rabbit-herd. P412.3
• Ferryman. P413
• Eternal ferryman. Always transports passengers and when the ruler is in danger takes his place. (Cf. Q25.) P413.1
• Ferryman puts oar into king's hand and he must remain ferryman. P413.1.1
• Hunter. P414
• Collier. (Cf. K2262.) P415
• Hero as collier. P415.1
• Learned professions. P420
• Judge. P421
• Jackals as judges. P421.1
• Lawyer. P422
• Lawyers punished in hell. P422.1
• Tongue of dead lawyer found to be lacking. P422.1.1
• Physician. P424
• Physician hides eyes as he passes graveyard. He does not want to see those who have died from his medicine. P424.1
• Doctor who can cure can also poison. This reflection brings the doctor under the king's suspicion. P424.2
• Physician killed for fatal diagnosis. P424.3
• "Skillful" physician compelled to help carry away the bier of his dead patient. P424.3.1
• Fairy as physician. P424.4
• Female physician. P424.5
• Scribe. P425
• Scribe who cannot read his own writing. P425.1
• Clergy. P426
• In fear of clerics pagans flee into fairy mounds. P426.0.1
• Parson (priest). P426.1
• First of animals and fruits belong to priest. P426.1.1
• Hermit. P426.2
• Monks. P426.3
• Untrained monk becomes skillful wright (smith) through power of saint. P426.3.1
• Monks as converted druids. P426.3.2
• Woman disguised as monk enters monastery. P426.3.3
• Druid (poet, learned man). P427
• Druid inspires great respect and fear. P427.0.1
• Person assailed by druid loses treasure. P427.0.2
• Women druids. P427.0.3
• Simon Magus as druid. P427.0.4
• Druid performs sacrifices. P427.1
• Druids perform human sacrifice. P427.1.1
• Druids as priests. P427.1.2
• Druidic (heathen) baptism. P427.1.3
• Druidic tonsure. P427.1.4
• Druid as emissary of peace. P427.2
• Advice (instruction) from druid. P427.3
• Poet (druid) as satirist. (Cf. M402.) P427.4
• Fear of druidic lampoon as activating power. P427.4.1
• Druid as physician. (Cf. P424.) P427.5
• Wounded soldiers healed by bath in pool of milk through power of druid. P427.5.1
• Druid as judge. P427.6
• Poet. P427.7
• Extemporaneous composition by poets. P427.7.1
• Extensive repertory of poets. P427.7.2
• Difficult language used by poets. P427.7.2.1
• Poets and fools closely allied. P427.7.2.1.1