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Motif

Generosity rewarded.

Rewards and punishments. · Deeds rewarded. · Kindness rewarded. · view the constellation · filed as Q42

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
Filed across the traditions
  • Irish myth Cross
  • Breton Sébillot Incidents s. v. "charité"
  • Spanish Keller, Espinosa III No. 152, Espinosa Jr. Nos. 202–204, 210
  • India *Thompson-Balys
  • Buddhist myth Malalasekera II 897, 904, 934, 988
  • Tahiti Beckwith Myth 38.
  • general *Chauvin V 14 No. 68
  • general *Penzer VIII 130ff.
Within the index

Filed under Kindness rewarded.

9 finer motifs beneath it
Spendthrift knight. Divides his last penny. He is later helped by the grateful person Reward for providing coffins for poor Generosity to saint (god) in disguise rewarded. (Cf. Q1, Q45.1.) Man frees slave (incognito prince): rewarded when slave becomes king Reward for generosity to king's buffoon. Ruler rewards herald who is generous to his buffoon Reward for tearing out eye when demanded Reward for remitting tribute. (Cf. Q172.7.) Saint gives a man all his credit for good deeds so that the man may go to heaven. Saint is then rewarded with even greater credit. (Cf. Q172.) Cobbler gives new pair of shoes to poor boy and says: "You can pay me when you become archbishop." Generously rewarded many years later
Filed beside it
Politeness 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
Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)
Charitable man's death postponed. (Cf. Q42, Q145.)
Carried in tale types

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