96 motifs match “friendship”  ·  back to the chapters

• 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
• Trolls' friendship with men. F455.6.1
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Avoid enemies' revenge either by making peace and friendship or by killing them all. So says old man to conqueror. J647.1
• Trickster, pretending not to see attacking enemy, sings song of friendship. K606.0.3
• Hypocrite pretends friendship but attacks. K2010
• Man pretends friendship but attacks king to avenge violation of his wife. K2010.1
• Friendship feigned to avenge murder. K2010.2
• Unsuccessful suitor pretends friendship with woman's husband. Kills him while on a hunt. K2022
• Woman destroys men's friendship by pretending to whisper to one. K2131.3
• 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
• Friendship of prince and commoner. P32
• Friendship. P310
• Dying man asks friends to let his son inherit his friendship together with his father's weapons. P310.4.1
• Friendship possible only between equals. P310.8
• Flower-friendship. Friends take oath of brotherhood by exchanging flowers. P311.2
• Covenant of friendship. P311.5
• Ceremonial friendship. P311.6
• Friendship between a prince and common man. P311.8
• Friendship starts at babyhood: two babies exchanged. P313.1
• 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
• Deeds of friendship – miscellaneous. P319
• "Friendship without refusal." Friends bind themselves each to grant every desire of the other. P319.7
• Marriage destroys friendship. Lover and mistress live together and are happy; become unhappy as soon as they marry. T201
• 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