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Group No. 135


Letter

M. Ordaining the future

Group No.

M200 – M299

Group name

Bargains and promises

Description

M201.0.1. Bargain with God (by holy man). Irish myth: Cross; Jewish: *Neuman.
 
M201.0.1.1. Covenant between Israel and God. Jewish: *Neuman.
 
M201.0.2. Covenant between heathen and Israelites. Jewish: Neuman.
 
M201.1. Blood covenant. Contract written (or signed) with blood. Hdwb. d. Abergl. II 272ff., 1026; *Wilken Verspreide Geschriften I 539ff.; *W. Robertson Smith Religion of the Semites@3 270ff.; *Penzer I 98 n.; *Fb ”skrive“; ”blod“ IV 47b; ** H. C. Turmbull The Blood Covenant (London, 1887). – Breton: Sébillot Incidents s.v. ”sang“, ”pacte“; Jewish: *Neuman; India: Thompson-Balys.
 
M210. Bargain with devil. Types 310, 313A, 316, 360, 400, 425C, 441, 500, 502, 706, 710, 756B, 810 – 812, 1170 – 1199; BP II 164, 329f., 427, 561ff., III 12, *Andrejev FFC LXIX 222ff.; *Fb ”djævel“ IV 99a, ”blod“ IV 47b. – England, U.S.: Baughman; Missouri French: Carrière; Italian Novella: *Rotunda; Jewish: *Neuman; India: *Thompson-Balys; West Indies: Flowers 562.
 
M253. Friends in life and death. In pursuance of the pledge, the living follows the other to the world of the dead. *Type 470; Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 561; **MacKay The Double Invitation; Jewish Neuman.
 
M258.2. Promise to dying father not to wed woman of certain tribe. Jewish: *Neuman.
 
M258.3. Promise to dying father to bury him in his homeland. Jewish: *Neuman.
 
M293. Covenant: one nation not to wrest city from inhabitants without their consent. Jewish: *Neuman.
 
M294. Divine promise not to destroy sinful city if righteous live there. Jewish: Neuman.

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