Three Nephites give blessings as reward for hospitality. (Mormon tradition.)

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Three Nephites give blessings as reward for hospitality. (Mormon tradition.)

Rewards and punishments. · Deeds rewarded. · Kindness rewarded. · view the constellation · filed as Q45.1.1

Scholars’ trail — 1reference

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 **H. Lee, The Three Nephites: the Substance and Significance of the Legend in Folklore (Albuquerque, New Mexico, 1949).

Within the index

Filed under Angels entertained unawares. Hospitality to disguised saint (angel, god) rewarded. (Cf. Q42.3.)

Filed beside it

King refuses to invite Patrick to feast. Poor man kills only cow and uses his only measure of meal to entertain Patrick. Patrick blesses his wife and son Hospitality to saint repaid: neither he nor his posterity will ever be hurt by venomous creatures

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