31 motifs match “company”  ·  back to the chapters

• Tabu: eating in company. C285
• Tabu: chief to be in large company without wolf-hounds. C564.3
• Sea dragon in serpent's form to accompany hero. (Cf. D419.1.1, B11.) D659.4.2
• Hell-hounds accompany soul to lower world. E752.5
• Mountain of Venus. Hollow mountain otherworld where men live a life of ease and lustful pleasure in company with beautiful women. F131.1
• Skies open, revealing heavenly company. F969.1
• Natural phenomena accompanying the devil's appearance. G303.6.3
• Devil in fold of knight's cloak. (Cf. G303.6.2.12.) Knight permits him to lodge there and accompany him to a tournament on condition that he leave him without harm upon request. G303.8.9.1
• Task: bringing well to king; countertask: sending his own well to accompany it. (Cf. H951.) H1023.25.1
• "Do not keep bad company": counsel proved wise by experience. Breaking of father's first counsel causes the breaking of all the others. J21.25
• Educated men as choice company. J146
• King prefers educated men as company. J146.1
• Stupid fear company of clever. J423
• Weak fear company of strong. J425
• Earthen and brazen pots in river. Brazen pot thinks that they should stay together for company. Earthen pot, however, fears approach of brazen pot. J425.1
• Contagiousness of bad company. J451
• God of wealth in bad company. Heracles on his arrival in heaven fails to greet Plutus, the god of wealth: he has seen him in too bad company. J451.3
• Monk chooses solitude and loneliness to company and temptation. By living alone he escapes sin. J495
• The same company of fools. An abbot calls the monks together and asks, "Whom from all you fools can I appoint as steward?" A monk answers, "That should not be difficult since an abbot was found from the same company of fools." J1265.3
• To follow the king. In order to test a favorite, a king says that he is going to retire from the world and offers the regency to the favorite. On advice from his philosopher, the favorite says that he is going to accompany the king into retirement. J1634
• Old man silent in king's presence asks king what he himself does when in company with a fool. [Inadvertant duplication of J1369.5.] J1714.5
• Boots sent by telegraph. A peasant hangs boots and an accompanying letter on a telegraph wire, expecting them to reach the city. J1935.1
• Company to sing like leader. When his foot is caught in a wheel, they keep repeating his call for help as a song. J2417.1
• The sleeper answers for the dead man. A man falls asleep by a gallows. A company of wags come and invite the dead man on the gallows to accompany them. The sleeper awakes with a start and says, "I'll come at once." The wags flee in terror. J2618
• Robber cheated by substitution. Spending the night in company with a suspicious-looking stranger, the man does not go to sleep, but leaves his clothes in bed and waits to see what will happen. When the stranger wakes up in the night, he stabs at his sleeping companion, who shoots him down. (Cf. K525.1.) K437.1
• Two rival parties of fifteen each on ship. When food is exhausted, it is agreed that half the company be thrown overboard, "every ninth man as they stood to be selected." Clever sister of leader of one party arranges men so that enemies are chosen and so drowned. K527.4
• The wolf in the company of saints. Promises to give up slaying animals. After wringing the gander's neck, excuses self saying: "He should not have hissed at the saint." K2055.1
• Curse: lack of food, shelter, good company. M443.1
• King's counselor expelled from a court thereby escapes accompanying the king, who is killed by robbers. N178.3
• Affianced wife of chieftain falls in love with another man at betrothal feast, drugs the company with sleeping potion, and forces man of her choice to elope with her. T157
• Marvelous light accompanying saint. V222.1