ATU 751B The Farmwife Must Take Two Snakes as Foster-Children [Q594]

ATU 751B

The Farmwife Must Take Two Snakes as Foster-Children [Q594]

Aarne–Thompson–Uther tale-type index · Religious Tales · The full type description is not served here; the number and name are the classification facts.

Motifs the recorded variants carry

Gods (spirits) disguised as beggars. Test hospitality. 2 variants
Gods (saints) in disguise reward hospitality and punish inhospitality. Usually the hospitable person is poor, the inhospitable rich. 1 variant
Inhospitality to saint (god) punished. (Cf. Q1.1.) 1 variant

Type numbers and names after Aarne–Thompson–Uther, via Hagedorn, trilogy (2022), CC-BY-NC-SA; motif links weighted by the dataset’s recorded tale variants. Served as classification facts with attribution.