Motif
Bold beggar rewarded and warned
bold_beggar_rewarded_and_warned
A motif of the Hospitality Test and Stranger Guest family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
buddhist
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The Giant Crab, and Other Tales from Old India THE GREAT YELLOW KING AND HIS PORTER / THE QUAIL AND THE FALCON / PRIDE MUST HAVE A FALL / THE BOLD BEGGAR; lines 2108-2152 confidence: medium
The king says to give the man food; the attendants seat him, and the king feeds him from his own dish and gives him wine until he has eaten a large meal.
The king feeds the man and, after hearing the impertinent explanation, laughs, allows him to go free, and warns him not to repeat it.
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