Talker keeps person from eating — Mythoi

Motif

Talker keeps person from eating.

The wise and the foolish. · Cleverness. · Clever practical retorts. · Practical retorts: hosts and guests. · view the constellation · filed as J1564

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Filed under Practical retorts: hosts and guests.

2 finer motifs beneath it

Trickster's interrupted feast revenged. He is asked a question by his master each time he tries to eat a date, so that he always has to spit out the date. He revenges himself that night when the master tries to carry on an intrigue with his wife's maid. He comes with his answers at embarrassing moments Revenge by interrupting feast. A rabbi who has been inhospitably treated is afterwards invited to dinner. He keeps the guests so amused by his jokes that they fail to eat and the feast is spoiled

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Inhospitality repaid The greedy host Treatment of difficult guests 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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