Ancient ✦ Wisdom ✦ Atlas

Motif family

Hospitality Test and Stranger Guest

The guest or suppliant functions as a sacred test of the host, making hospitality itself the ordeal.

41 traditions

298 occurrences

298 mapped motifs

  • afro caribbean
  • ainu
  • amazonian
  • arctic inuit
  • arthurian
  • australian aboriginal
  • biblical
  • buddhist
  • celtic irish
  • celtic welsh
  • chaco amerindian
  • christian apocrypha
  • comparative
  • confucian
  • egyptian
  • estonian
  • finnish karelian
  • germanic
  • greek
  • greek roman
  • hindu
  • indigenous australian
  • inuit
  • islamic
  • islamicate folklore
  • japanese
  • jewish christian
  • micronesian
  • native american northwest coast
  • native american plains
  • native american southeast
  • native american southwest
  • navajo
  • norse
  • persian
  • roman
  • romanian
  • shan
  • slavic
  • sufi
  • zuni

Conserved neighbors: sacred exchange · sacred law

This family has not yet been binned into sub-families; its mapped motifs are listed directly, most widespread first.

Mapped motifs

298 motifs, showing the 60 most attested

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