Hospitality rewarded – opposite punished — Mythoi

Motif

Hospitality rewarded – opposite punished.

Rewards and punishments. · Rewards and punishments. · view the constellation · filed as Q1

Filed across the traditions

Irish myth *Cross.

Within the index

Filed under Rewards and punishments.

1 finer motif beneath it

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

Filed beside it

Kind and unkind. Churlish person disregards requests of old person (animal) and is punished. Courteous person (often youngest brother or sister) complies and is rewarded Moderate request rewarded; immoderate punished Humble rewarded, haughty punished Laziness punished; industry rewarded Good thoughts rewarded, bad punished Deity descends and makes king and wronged subject change places

Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)

Reward: man's cows magically multiply. (Cf. Q1.) Generosity to saint (god) in disguise rewarded. (Cf. Q1, Q45.1.)

Carried in tale types

Hospitality Rewarded · ATU 750B 1 recorded variant
God Punishes a Bad Woman · ATU 750C 1 recorded variant

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