Guests frightened away by housewife — Mythoi

Motif

Guests frightened away by housewife.

The wise and the foolish. · Cleverness. · Clever practical retorts. · Practical retorts: hosts and guests. · view the constellation · filed as J1563.5

Filed across the traditions

India Thompson-Balys.

Within the index

Filed under Treatment of difficult guests.

2 finer motifs beneath it

Wife prepares the pestle. Tells guests husband uses it against guests. They flee. Tells husband they left because she refused to give them pestle. Husband pursues to give them the pestle, but they run the faster. (Cf. K2137.) Servants touch cooking pot. Food being considered unclean then, guests depart empty but unwitting of true reason

Filed beside it

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 Guests make impossible demands of host: host's representative forces guests to leave by sending them on difficult quest Bread baked with onions for an undesirable guest 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 When hints do not get rid of unwelcome guests, force must be used. Thus man treats his sons-in-law A sham fight to frighten away the guests Priest frightens away parasitic guests. Tells them he has that morning confessed man with plague

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