Politeness rewarded — Mythoi

Motif

Politeness rewarded.

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

Filed across the traditions

Icelandic Boberg
Breton Sébillot Incidents s. v. "politesse"
Missouri French Carrière
Spanish Espinosa III No. 152, Espinosa Jr. Nos. 117, 130, 183
Italian Basile 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 480 12 recorded variants

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