Reward for cleansing loathsome person. Cleansing eyelids, bathing, lousing etc

Motif

Reward for cleansing loathsome person. Cleansing eyelids, bathing, lousing etc.

Rewards and punishments. · Deeds rewarded. · Kindness rewarded. · view the constellation · filed as Q41.2

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.

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.

Within the index

Filed under Politeness rewarded.

Filed beside it

Ogre appeased by being called uncle (aunt, etc.)

Carried in tale types

The Kind and the Unkind Girls (previously The Spinning-Women by the Spring · ATU 4804 recorded variants

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