Hospitality rewarded — Mythoi

Motif

Hospitality rewarded.

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

Filed across the traditions

Irish myth *Cross
Swiss Jegerlehner Oberwallis 323 No. 95
Spanish Espinosa III No. 152, Espinosa Jr. Nos. 181f.
Italian Novella *Rotunda
India Thompson-Balys
Buddhist myth Malalasekera II 455, 989
Africa (Loango) Pechuël-Loesche 110, (Kaffir): Kidd 251 No. 13, (Ekoi): Talbot 208.
general Scala Celi 51b, 81b, 83b, 104b, 152b, 158a, 164b Nos. 290, 466, 477, 569, 839, 884, 926
general Alphabet No. 368

Within the index

Filed under Kindness rewarded.

6 finer motifs beneath it

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

Filed beside it

Politeness rewarded Generosity rewarded Reward for giving counsel Reward for almsgiving 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.)

Riches as reward (for hospitality). (Cf. Q45.) Hospitality of a citizen saves a city from destruction. (Cf. Q45.) Inhospitality punished. (Cf. P320, Q45, Q551.6.7, Q556.7, W158.)

Carried in tale types

The Flight on the Grateful Eagle (previously The Marvelous Eagle Gives the Hero a Box) · ATU 537 1 recorded variant

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