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Motifs — first 20 of 31
- 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