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- Culture hero dispenses food and hospitality. A547
- Origin of customs of hospitality. A1598
- Animal characteristics reward for hospitality. A2222
- Thrush's hospitality to peacock rewarded by being given motley coat of feathers. (Cf. A2411.2.1.1.) A2222.1
- Why sparrow may build nest near people's houses; reward for hospitality. A2431.3.7.1
- Fairy grateful for hospitality. F332
- Fairy kills man who refuses his hospitality. Man refuses to visit fairy after being invited. (Cf. F361.15.) F361.17.7
- Inhospitality reproved enigmatically. H594
- Quest assigned as payment for hospitality. H1219.7
- Test of hospitality. H1564
- Execution escaped by invoking laws of hospitality. J1183
- Inhospitality repaid. J1561
- 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
- Ruler refuses hospitality from subject who spends more than he earns. J1566.2
- Trickster asks hospitality: expels owner and appropriates house. K354
- Crow asks hospitality of sparrow and gradually takes possession of nest and kills young. (Often told of camel and tent.) K354.1
- Gods (spirits) disguised as beggars. Test hospitality. K1811.1
- Incognito king is given hospitality by fisherman. Rewards him with a city. K1812.4
- King in disguise of merchant is given hospitality by enemy. K1812.14.1