Hospitality as a virtue. (Cf. P320.)

Motif

Hospitality as a virtue. (Cf. P320.)

Traits of character. · Favorable traits of character. · Kindness. · view the constellation · filed as W12

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

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.

Irish mythCross.

Within the index

Filed under Kindness. (Cf. Q40.)

2 finer motifs beneath it

Man (king) prefers death to loss of reputation for hospitality Man looks for strangers so as to bestow hospitality on them

Filed beside it

Saint never drives fly or gnat from his face Saint gives calf to wolf Generosity Woman shelters son's murderer out of charity Bishop exchanges places with prisoner so as to have him return to his mother Envious man sets out to kill one who is noted for his generosity. He is won over by the generosity of his intended victim

Travels with

Hospitality. Relation of host and guest

wander