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Motif

Treatment of difficult guests.

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

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8 finer motifs beneath 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 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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Inhospitality repaid The greedy host Talker keeps person from eating Inappropriate entertainment repaid Luxury of host rebuked Host rebukes negligent servant Guest brings along cakes to eat. Stingy host rebuked "Cause liberality to be depicted." Answer of hungry man when host asks for suggestion for a picture to be painted of something that has not been seen Deceptive invitation to feast

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