The constellation
P326 If host does not return, the house shall belong to the guest. So declares the host as he departs on a mission for the guest
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- Hospitality for a whole winter · P320.1 entry
- Hospitality for (three) years · P320.2 entry
- Salt of hospitality. Eating a man's salt creates mutual obligation · P321 entry
- Guest given refuge. Murderer of a man's father takes refuge in his house and is saved by him · P322 entry
- Hosts refrain from telling guest of death in household · P323 entry
- Host greets guest with gifts · P324 entry
- Host surrenders his wife to his guest. The guest unwittingly falls in love with the wife. The host, on being informed, out of pure generosity repudiates the wife and has her marry the guest. (Often joined with P315.) · P325 entry
- Barmecide feast. Host places imaginary feast before guest, who accepts it in the same spirit. Guest's courtesy is rewarded by real feast · P327 entry
- Strangers entertained by family to whose hitching-ring they happen to tie their horses. Thus confusion avoided as to where strangers are to be entertained · P328 entry
- Refusal to receive preferred help until series of stories has been told · P331 entry