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J1563 Treatment of difficult guests
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- The guest who could not keep warm. He keeps calling for more bed clothes. The host finally piles a ladder, a trough, etc., on top of him until he calls for help · J1563.1 entry
- Guests make impossible demands of host: host's representative forces guests to leave by sending them on difficult quest · J1563.2 entry
- Bread baked with onions for an undesirable guest · J1563.3 entry
- Proper food for ox and ass. Guests call each other ox and ass. Host offers green grass for the first and fodder for the second · J1563.4 entry
- Guests frightened away by housewife · J1563.5 entry
- When hints do not get rid of unwelcome guests, force must be used. Thus man treats his sons-in-law · J1563.6 entry
- A sham fight to frighten away the guests · J1563.7 entry
- Priest frightens away parasitic guests. Tells them he has that morning confessed man with plague · J1563.8 entry