Politeness rewarded

Motif

Politeness rewarded.

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

Scholars’ trail — 6references

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.

IcelandicBoberg
BretonSébillot Incidents s. v. "politesse"
Missouri FrenchCarrière
SpanishEspinosa III No. 152, Espinosa Jr. Nos. 117, 130, 183
ItalianBasile Pentamerone IV Nos. 7, 8.
general *Roberts 173

Within the index

Filed under Kindness rewarded.

2 finer motifs beneath it

Ogre appeased by being called uncle (aunt, etc.)Reward for cleansing loathsome person. Cleansing eyelids, bathing, lousing etc

Filed beside it

Generosity rewarded Reward for giving counsel Reward for almsgiving Hospitality rewarded Reward for protecting fugitive Kindness to orphans repaid by dead parents Kindness to animals rewarded Reward for rescue Uprightness rewarded. (Cf. Q151.7.)Reward for sparing life when in animal form Love rewarded Attendance on the sick rewarded

Carried in tale types

The Kind and the Unkind Girls (previously The Spinning-Women by the Spring · ATU 48012 recorded variants

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