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

Motif

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

Rewards and punishments. · Deeds rewarded. · Kindness rewarded. · view the constellation · filed as Q45.1

Scholars’ trail — 14references

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.

LithuanianBalys Index No. 752B*
SpanishKeller, Espinosa Jr. Nos. 181f.
GreekPauly-Wissowa s. v. "Baukis"
India*Thompson-Balys
Buddhist mythMalalasekera II 35
JapaneseAnesaki 251f.
Africa (Konnoh)Willans 140.
general *Dh II 133ff.
general *bin Gorion Born Judas 2d ed. I 366
general Scala Celi 39b, 81b Nos. 221, 464, 468
general Alphabet Nos. 167, 365, 439
general Herbert III 392
general Literary treatment: Lowell "Vision of Sir Launfal". Irish: Cross, O'Suilleabhain 90
general N. Am. Indian (Maliseet): Mechling JAFL XXVI 219ff.

Within the index

Filed under Hospitality rewarded.

3 finer motifs beneath it

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

Filed beside it

Hospitality to devil repaid Hospitality to ascetic rewarded Revenge given up as reward for hospitality. (Cf. Q151.6.)Hospitality repaid by attack on devastating enemy Hospitality repaid by magic procuring of provisions

Travels with

Miraculously long life as reward for hospitality. (Cf. Q45.1.)Hospitable person saved from death. (Cf. Q45.1.)Generosity to saint (god) in disguise rewarded. (Cf. Q1, Q45.1.)House and family appear overnight to afford hospitality to benighted priests. (Cf. Q45.1.)

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