When hints do not get rid of unwelcome guests, force must be used. Thus man treats his sons-in-law — Mythoi

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When hints do not get rid of unwelcome guests, force must be used. Thus man treats his sons-in-law.

The wise and the foolish. · Cleverness. · Clever practical retorts. · Practical retorts: hosts and guests. · view the constellation · filed as J1563.6

Filed across the traditions

India Thompson-Balys.

Within the index

Filed under Treatment of difficult guests.

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 Guests frightened away by housewife A sham fight to frighten away the guests Priest frightens away parasitic guests. Tells them he has that morning confessed man with plague

Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)

Strength in words, in herbs, and in stones. When first two do not cure shrewish wife, the last does. (Cf. J1563.6, J1581.2, J2412.5.)

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