26 motifs match “covenant”  ·  back to the chapters

• Covenant between God and mortal. A185.9
• Rainbow as covenant between creator and men. A791.10
• Origin of covenanted friendships. A1599.12
• Covenant with animals. B279
• Saint makes covenant with wolves. B279.1
• King David dances with common youths before the Ark of the Covenant. He humbles self to please God. J914.1
• Covenant between Israel and God. M201.0.1.1
• Covenant between heathen and Israelites. M201.0.2
• Blood covenant. Contract written (or signed) with blood. M201.1
• Covenant confirmed by eating together. M201.2
• Covenant between saints confirmed by cutting off their thumbs. M201.4
• Covenant confirmed by marriage. M201.5
• Covenant confirmed by hostages. M201.6
• Covenant of friendship. M246
• Covenant of friendship between animals. M246.1
• Covenant of friendship between elephant and jackal. M246.1.1
• Covenant of friendship between louse and crow. M246.1.2
• Covenant of friendship: no matter how poor son of one is, daughter of other will accept him as groom. M246.2
• Covenant of friendship: to secure brides for each other. M246.3
• Covenant: one nation not to wrest city from inhabitants without their consent. M293
• Covenant of friendship. P311.5
• Saint makes blood covenant with animals. (Cf. B279.) P312.0.1
• Drinking mixture of blood, milk, and wine as pledge of covenant. P312.1
• Sterility as punishment for breaking saint's covenant. (Cf. Q227.) Q553.3.3
• Punishment: body will not decay after death because man broke saint's covenant. (Cf. Q227.) Q559.7
• Louse and crow make covenant of friendship: louse eats crow despite crow saying, "If I strike you once with my beak you will disappear; how then can you talk of eating me?" Likewise louse eats loaf of bread, she-goat, cow, buffalo, five sepoys, wedding procession with one lakh of people, elephant, tank of water. A sepoy cuts louse in two with his sword and rescues all. Z33.4.1