Search
Motifs
- 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