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Motifs
- Hospitable host entertains (guides, advises) adventurer on way to otherworld. F151.0.1
- Arrested man tells who he is: the hospitable fire of his father is sought (bean merchant). H581.2
- Enigmatic welcome of host. Sounds very inhospitable but properly interpreted makes guests welcome. H595
- 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
- Father causes inhospitable daughter to spoil her feast by deceptive advice about cooking. J1561.5
- Saint curses books hidden by inhospitable host: no man shall read them. M411.8.5
- Gods (saints) in disguise reward hospitality and punish inhospitality. Usually the hospitable person is poor, the inhospitable rich. Q1.1
- Hospitable person saved from death. (Cf. Q45.1.) Q151.3
- Hospitable man impoverished by greedy guests. W151.2.2
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