Gods (saints) in disguise reward hospitality and punish inhospitality. Usually the hospitable person is poor, the inhospitable rich

Motif

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

Scholars’ trail — 8references

The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our shelf are live links; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.

India*Thompson-Balys
Buddhist mythMalalasekera II 656
JapaneseIkeda.
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

Uncharitableness to holy person punished. (Cf. Q1.1, Q553.3.5, Q556.11, Q589.1.)Inhospitality to saint (god) punished. (Cf. Q1.1.)

Carried in tale types

The Farmwife is Changed into a Woodpecker · ATU 751A5 recorded variants
The Three Wishes (previously The Wishes) · ATU 750A2 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 751B1 recorded variant

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