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- Origin of the potlatch. A feast of the Indians of the Northwest Coast of America in which large amounts of property are given away to the guests. These feasts must be returned. A1535.1
- Saints have foreknowledge of coming of guests. D1812.0.2
- Foreknowledge of unwished guests. D1812.0.2.1
- Hero has foreknowledge of coming of guests. D1812.0.2.2
- Fakir has foreknowledge of coming of guests. D1812.0.2.3
- Saint carries fire in hand to warm guests. D1841.3.2.3.1
- Saint causes fish to come out of lake to satisfy guests for whom he has no food. (Cf. D1444.1, F986.2.) D2105.5
- Enigmatic welcome of host. Sounds very inhospitable but properly interpreted makes guests welcome. H595
- The wine needs no further water. Guests asks small daughter of innkeeper for water to put into his wine. She says, "You will not have to do that for mother poured a whole tubful into the cask today." J125.1
- Guests strike man who tries to interfere in their quarrel. It is their host in old clothes. Guests are humiliated but forgiven. J1072.1
- Abbess has twenty-four nuns for twelve monks: twelve nuns therefore for the guests. J1264.9
- Hired man shows in saying grace how better food has resulted from arrival of unexpected guests. Nebraska text: O Lord of Love who art above|Thy blessings have descended:|Biscuits and tea for supper I see|When mush and milk was intended. J1341.12
- A three thousand year old debt. Guests in inn discuss reincarnation. "Since we shall come back in three thousand years, the host might trust us till then." Host: "You still owe me what you didn't pay three thousand years ago." J1384
- Practical retorts: hosts and guests. J1560
- 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
- The peasant's share is the chicken. He serves small birds and a roast chicken to his guests. Guests each take a small bird, leaving only the chicken when the plate reaches the host. He takes the whole chicken saying: "Since everyone has a bird, I must have one too." J1562.2
- Treatment of difficult guests. J1563
- Guests make impossible demands of host: host's representative forces guests to leave by sending them on difficult quest. J1563.2
- Proper food for ox and ass. Guests call each other ox and ass. Host offers green grass for the first and fodder for the second. J1563.4
- Guests frightened away by housewife. J1563.5