Moderate request rewarded; immoderate punished

Motif

Moderate request rewarded; immoderate punished.

Rewards and punishments. · Rewards and punishments. · view the constellation · filed as Q3

Scholars’ trail — 3references

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.

IndiaThompson-Balys
JapaneseIkeda
West IndiesFlowers 566.

Within the index

Filed under Rewards and punishments.

2 finer motifs beneath it

Woodsman and the gold axe. A woodsman lets his axe fall into the water. Hermes comes to his rescue. Takes out a gold axe but the woodsman says that it is not his. The same with a silver axe. Finally he is given his own axe and rewarded for his modest choice. His companion tries this plan and loses his axe Lion divides slain bullock. The thief who demands half of the bullock driven off; the traveler who modestly withdraws invited to take half

Filed beside it

Hospitality rewarded – opposite punished 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 Humble rewarded, haughty punished Laziness punished; industry rewarded Good thoughts rewarded, bad punished Deity descends and makes king and wronged subject change places

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