Gods (saints) in disguise reward hospitality and punish inhospitality. Usually the hospitable person is poor, the inhospitable rich.
Rewards and punishments. · Rewards and punishments. · view the constellation · filed as Q1.1
Motif
Filed across the traditions
- India *Thompson-Balys
- Buddhist myth Malalasekera II 656
- Japanese Ikeda.
- general *Types 750AB, 751, 750*
- general *BP II 210, III 206
- general Aarne FFC XXIII 46
- general *Dh II 117
- general *Fb "Sankt Peder" III 164b, "rig" III 55a. Spanish: Espinosa II No. 86, III Nos. 168–171, Espinosa Jr. No. 181
Within the index
Filed under Hospitality rewarded – opposite punished.
Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)
Carried in tale types
- The Farmwife is Changed into a Woodpecker · ATU 751A 5 recorded variants
- The Three Wishes (previously The Wishes) · ATU 750A 2 recorded variants
- A Man Invites God to his House · ATU 751A* 1 recorded variant
- The Farmwife Must Take Two Snakes as Foster-Children [Q594] · ATU 751B 1 recorded variant
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