182 motifs match “friends” — showing the first 100; narrow the words for the rest  ·  back to the chapters

• Sun and moon as friends. A736.6
• Origin of monsoon: from chewed skin and spit of pair of divine friends eating guavas. A1129.2
• Origin of covenanted friendships. A1599.12
• Friendships between the animals. A2493
• Former friendship between domestic and wild animals. A2493.0.1
• Friendship of prairie-dog and owl. A2493.1
• Friendship of bat and owl. A2493.2
• Friendship of tiger and buffalo. A2493.3
• Friendship between man and dog. A2493.4
• Friendship between deer and fish. A2493.5
• Friendship between squirrel and quail. A2493.6
• Friendship between leopard-cat and squirrel. A2493.7
• Friendship between leopard-cat and night-jar. A2493.7.1
• Friendship between leopard and goat. A2493.8
• Friendship of cat and mouse. A2493.9
• Oath of friendship between cat and rat. A2493.9.1
• Friendship of fox and titmouse. A2493.10
• Friendship between jackal and crocodile. A2493.11
• Friendship between jackal and alligator. A2493.11.1
• Friendship between jackal and elephant. A2493.11.2
• Friendship between jackal and tiger. A2493.11.3
• Friendship between jackal and partridge. A2493.11.4
• Friendship between turtle and heron. A2493.12
• Friendship between turtle and wallaby. A2493.12.1
• Friendship between hare and parrot. A2493.13
• Friendship between monkey and elephant. A2493.14
• Friendship between monkey and tiger. A2493.14.1
• Friendship between monkey and lion. A2493.14.2
• Friendship between monkey and stork. A2493.14.3
• Friendship between monkey and rabbit. A2493.14.4
• Friendship between partridge, monkey and elephant. A2493.14.5
• Friendship between wolf and ass. A2493.15
• Friendship between cock and dog. A2493.16
• Friendship between tiger and deer (fawn). A2493.17
• Friendship between cat and tiger. A2493.18
• Friendship between crab and cobra. A2493.19
• Friendship between frog and cricket. A2493.20
• Friendship between grasshopper and dungbeetle. A2493.21
• Friendship between goat and hog. A2493.22
• Friendship between louse and crow. A2493.23
• Friendship between cow and tiger, calf and cub. A2493.24
• Friendship between snake and crow. A2493.25
• Friendship between parrot and maina. A2493.26
• Friendship between bird and crab. A2493.27
• Friendship between mouse and butterfly. A2493.28
• Friendship between ant and pheasant. A2493.29
• Friendship between tiger and lion. A2493.30
• Friendship between lion and jackal. A2493.30.1
• Friendship between cow and lioness. A2493.30.2
• Friendship between dog and elephant. A2493.31
• Friendship between antelope, woodpecker and tortoise. A2493.32
• Friendship between pike and crawfish. A2493.33
• Friendship of hen and duck. A2493.34
• Friendship between hen and sparrow. A2493.34.1
• Two friends exchange forms. D45.3
• Falling of two trees reveals Savior's will as to separation of friends. D1311.4.0.2
• Magic power obtained secretly from magician's friends. D1721.0.2
• Resuscitation by friends. E127
• Return of the dead to keep promise and tell of land of the dead. Two friends promise each other that the first to die will do so. E374.1
• Return from dead to protect friends. E379.3
• Dead friends come for dying man's soul. E722.2.9
• Wraith returns to home and goes to bed while body is at home of friends in deep reverie. E723.4.1
• Trolls' friendship with men. F455.6.1
• Friends identical in appearance. F577.1
• Knight saved from devil by friends. G303.16.19.8
• Judicial combat interrupted by friends of loser. H218.1
• Dogs in human shape: friends who seduce man's wife. H592.4
• Task: eating room-full of salt. (Trickster eats only a pinch. "He who has eaten with a friend as much salt as I have eaten and does not recognize the friendship will not do so though he eat ten rooms full of salt.") H1141.3
• Tests of friendship. H1558
• Test of worthiness for friendship. H1558.0.1
• Apple test of worthiness for friendship. Father gives son three apples to offer to those he meets. If the man eats all, avoid him; if he divides, make friends with him. (Cf. H1557.1.) H1558.0.1.1
• Test of friendship: the half-friend. A man kills a hog and tells his friends that he has killed a man and asks where he can hide the body. All of them drive him away and only his father's half-friend remains true to him in his feigned trouble. H1558.1
• Of three friends the least loved proves true in emergency. H1558.1.1
• Test of friendship: substitute as murderer. A man in misery gives himself up as a murderer rather than endure further misery. His friend tries to take on himself the guilt and be substituted. The real murderer, touched by the generosity, confesses. H1558.2
• Test of friendship: to go with one to death. Everyman. He calls in Riches, Family, etc. Only Good Deeds remains with him. H1558.3
• The hare with many friends. In the final test none help and only her legs save her. H1558.4
• Test of friendship: death feigned to test debtor friends. H1558.5
• Test of friendship: the imagined refusal. Man wonders if his friend would lend him his palfrey. Decides he would refuse. Imagines that he has actually asked for the palfrey and has been refused. Cools toward his friend. The owner of the horse asks for an explanation. He agrees to lend him the horse and they are reconciled. H1558.6
• Test of friendship: the power of money. Spendthrift loses his friends in poverty. H1558.7
• Sultan takes disguise of beggar to test friends. H1558.7.1
• Friends desert when man reports loss of his money. H1558.7.2
• Friends refuse to fight against each other. H1558.8
• Friendship kept up even during sons' jealousy and enmity. H1558.10
• Test of friendship: to take a slap publicly from friend. H1558.11
• Test of friendship: mourner says dead husband can be touched only by sinless person; volunteers for cremating body immediately disperse. H1558.12
• Test of friendship: loyalty to condemned friend. H1558.13
• "Do not visit your friends often": counsel proved wise by experience. At last the man is treated shamefully. J21.9
• "Do not make friends with a policeman (soldier)": counsel proved wise by experience. J21.46
• Soldier asks to be stabbed in chest. Prostrate soldier asks enemy to stab him in chest instead of back in order to save his honor. Captor frees him and the two become friends. J216.4
• Scarcity of real friends. J401
• Socrates builds himself a little house. Criticized for its smallness he says, "I wish I had true friends enough to fill it." J401.1
• Wolf tries to make friends with lion: killed. J411.5
• Bird refuses to maintain friendship with bird of different habits. J416.1
• Friendship of snake and frog ceases when snake wants to eat frog. J426.2
• Birds seeking richer lands are nearly all killed. Survivors advise their friends to let well enough alone. J513.1
• Avoid enemies' revenge either by making peace and friendship or by killing them all. So says old man to conqueror. J647.1
• Headless king and tailless tiger, each afraid of other, agree to be friends. J876
• Enemy horses captured by lion join forces and become friends. J891
• Opposing wise men humble themselves and become friends. J917
• Eye of king's foster-son damaged by sting of bee. Boy's friends demand eye of king's son in forfeit; king decrees instead destruction of swarm of bees so that guilty one may perish. J1179.14