Motif
bungling host
bungling_host
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
native american plains
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Myths and Traditions of the Crow Indians HERO TALES . 52 / TALES OF SUPERNATURAL PATRONS . 152 / HISTORICAL TRADITIONS . / INTRODUCTION.; lines 381-666 confidence: medium
The passage lists four Crow parallels to the Omaha trickster cycle: hoodwinked birds, Rabbit covering the trickster, bungling host, and false suitor.
The bungling host is named as one of the Crow parallels to the Omaha trickster cycle and assigned to a Fox-Kickapoo category.
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