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Motifs
- Tabu: speaking to strangers. C492
- Tabus of strangers. C576
- Tabu: entertaining strangers. C745
- Cycnus. Cuts off heads of strangers in order to build temple of heads. G315
- Strangers umpire beauty contest. H1596.2
- King refuses to exile gossipers. They would defame him among strangers. At home they serve to test the king's patience and to reform his life. J215.1.2
- Choices: kind strangers, unkind relatives. J390
- One's own kind preferred to strangers. J416
- Tale of the cradle. Two youths pass the night with a family where all sleep in a common room, with a cradle at the foot of one of the beds. The moving of the cradle in the night confuses those walking about so that the strangers sleep with the wife and the daughter. K1345
- Incognito king rewards strangers who treat him as companion. K1812.13
- Strangers entertained by family to whose hitching-ring they happen to tie their horses. Thus confusion avoided as to where strangers are to be entertained. P328
- Strangers to be given precedence over man at home. Duke permits visiting duke to go through narrow path first. This sets custom. P631
- Sacrifice of strangers. S265
- Man looks for strangers so as to bestow hospitality on them. W12.2
- Man will not allow food served to strangers until a man of them wrestles with him. W213