μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Servant repays stingy master (mistress).

The wise and the foolish. · Cleverness. · Clever practical retorts. · Practical retorts: hosts and guests. · view the constellation · filed as J1561.4

Filed across the traditions
  • India Thompson-Balys.
  • general Type 1561**
Within the index

Filed under Inhospitality repaid.

2 finer motifs beneath it
Hostess says that she has no spoons. Otherwise she would be glad to give something to eat. A joker brings along the necessary spoons The boy "loses his sight." No butter on the bread
Filed beside it
Clothes thrown into the cooking food. A trickster when told that food cooking is clothes being boiled retaliates by throwing his dirty hose into the pot Inhospitable host punished for hospitality. An abbot has his innkeeper treat his guests with the most shameful neglect. A guest retaliates by telling the abbot that he has been very sumptuously entertained. The innkeeper is discharged Welcome to the clothes. A man at a banquet is neglected because of his poor clothes. He changes clothes, returns, and is honored. "Feed my clothes," he says, "for it is they that are welcomed." Father causes inhospitable daughter to spoil her feast by deceptive advice about cooking A box connection. Man refused hospitality tells rich man he is a relative. Asked for the "connection," he tells him there is a box connection. Rich man not understanding, man explains his cart is made of box wood and is tied to a rich man's box tree. Rich man, ashamed, entertains him with all due respect Grace said in name of the host. Neglected guest thus gets his portion of food
Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)
Clever servant. (Cf. J1111.6, J1341, J1561.4, N25, P360, W111.2.)

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