Inappropriate entertainment repaid — Mythoi

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Inappropriate entertainment repaid.

The wise and the foolish. · Cleverness. · Clever practical retorts. · Practical retorts: hosts and guests. · view the constellation · filed as J1565

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Irish myth *Cross.

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Filed under Practical retorts: hosts and guests.

3 finer motifs beneath it

Fox and crane invite each other. Fox serves the food on a flat dish so that the crane cannot eat. Crane serves his food in a bottle Bugs unable to eat honey at banquet of bees, and bees unable to eat dung at bug's dinner Crop division between parrot and cat: they try to cheat each other by inviting to a dinner in turns every day

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Inhospitality repaid The greedy host Treatment of difficult guests Talker keeps person from eating 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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