Reward for cleansing loathsome person. Cleansing eyelids, bathing, lousing etc.
Rewards and punishments. · Deeds rewarded. · Kindness rewarded. · view the constellation · filed as Q41.2
Motif
Cited in the index
- general *Roberts 168
- general Type 480
- general Africa (Chaga): Gutmann 132ff. No. 83, (Alo): Pratt-Chadwick and Lamprey The Alo Man (New York, 1927) 17ff., (Batanga): Nassau JAFL XXVIII 45ff. No. 16, (Bulu): Krug JAFL XXV 113 No. 9, (Bambara): Travélé 205ff. No. 66, (Hausa): Equilbecq Contes indigènes III 291ff., Tremearne Hausa Superstitions and Customs (London, 1913) 424ff. No. 93.
Carried in tale types
- The Kind and the Unkind Girls (previously The Spinning-Women by the Spring · ATU 480 4 recorded variants
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