μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Host greets guest with gifts.

Society. · Other social relationships. · Hospitality. · view the constellation · filed as P324

Filed across the traditions
  • English romance Malory passim
  • Icelandic Boberg.
Within the index

Filed under Hospitality. Relation of host and guest.

3 finer motifs beneath it
Host treats guest with food and everything possible Guests fed before being questioned Guests' life inviolable
Filed beside it
Hospitality for a whole winter Hospitality for (three) years Salt of hospitality. Eating a man's salt creates mutual obligation Guest given refuge. Murderer of a man's father takes refuge in his house and is saved by him Hosts refrain from telling guest of death in household Host surrenders his wife to his guest. The guest unwittingly falls in love with the wife. The host, on being informed, out of pure generosity repudiates the wife and has her marry the guest. (Often joined with P315.) If host does not return, the house shall belong to the guest. So declares the host as he departs on a mission for the guest Barmecide feast. Host places imaginary feast before guest, who accepts it in the same spirit. Guest's courtesy is rewarded by real feast Strangers entertained by family to whose hitching-ring they happen to tie their horses. Thus confusion avoided as to where strangers are to be entertained Refusal to receive preferred help until series of stories has been told Selfish guest expels host. Porcupine asks rabbit for hospitality. When rabbit complains of being pricked, porcupine tells him to leave if he does not like it Shabby hospitality forces guests to leave Poor person makes great effort to entertain guests King demands work, sport or entertainment from winter guests Sitting in a circle of feasts

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