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- Tabu: entertaining strangers. C745
- Hospitable host entertains (guides, advises) adventurer on way to otherworld. F151.0.1
- Woman entertains every traveler in the hope of finding her husband. H152.1.1
- Test of curiosity: mouse in jug. The new Eve. A woman has boasted of a lack of curiosity and blamed Mother Eve. The king entertains her in his castle. She may see everything but must not look into a certain silver jug. She does so and finds a mouse in it. (Cf. H1557.2.) H1554.1
- The hare at third remove. A man receives a present of a hare. Later a crowd comes to him for entertainment saying that they are friends of the man who presented the hare. This happens a second time. He serves them clear water. "It is the soup from the soup of the hare." J1551.6
- Inhospitable host punished for hospitality. An abbot has his innkeeper treat his guests with the most shameful neglect. A guest retaliates by telling the abbot that he has been very sumptuously entertained. The innkeeper is discharged. J1561.2
- A box connection. Man refused hospitality tells rich man he is a relative. Asked for the "connection," he tells him there is a box connection. Rich man not understanding, man explains his cart is made of box wood and is tied to a rich man's box tree. Rich man, ashamed, entertains him with all due respect. J1561.6
- Inappropriate entertainment repaid. J1565
- Two monks renew their appetites. Entertained by a lord, they say that they are going to certain waters to recover their appetites. They are taken to a chamber and locked in for a day They recover their appetites without further journeying. (Cf. K1955.1.1.) J1606
- Savory tea. The peasant entertains a priest at tea. Making it, puts in all the tea, six pounds of sugar, a piece of bacon, etc. J1813.7
- Literal numskull sings entertaining songs on approach of death. J2461.1.2.1
- Trickster poses as entertainer: steals meat while host assembles friends. K341.19
- Forged letter used to obtain credit, consideration, and entertainment. K455.8.1
- Dupe digs till he dies of exhaustion. Rabbit entertains the wolf with his antics until the rabbit's wife can change to another hole. The wolf continues to dig. K1061
- Adulteress gets rid of husband while she entertains lover. K1514
- Adulteress sets husband to watch for intruder while she entertains the paramour. K1514.10
- Paramour unties mare. Husband chases mare while the wife entertains the paramour. K1514.14
- Physician treating man's eye covers his one good eye. Entertains his patient's mistress. K1516.1.1
- The feigned wedding-feast. The husband returns unexpectedly to find his wife entertaining the paramour with a sumptuous feast. He is made to believe the feast is in honor of some newly-weds. K1527
- Old Hildebrand. Hidden cuckold reveals his presence by rhymes. He responds to the rhymes made by the wife and paramour concerning their entertainment. K1556