Motif
coercive hospitality through impossible meal
coercive_hospitality_through_impossible_meal
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
celtic irish
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Gods and Fighting Men BOOK TWO: LUGH OF THE LONG HAND. / CHAPTER I. THE COMING OF LUGH / CHAPTER II. THE SONS OF TUIREANN / CHAPTER III. THE GREAT BATTLE OF MAGH TUIREADH; lines 2206-2301 confidence: high
In the Fomor camp, the Dagda asks for and receives delay; the Fomor make an enormous broth of milk, meal, fat, and animals, pour it into a ground-hole, and threaten him if he leaves any.
The Fomor prepare an enormous meal for the Dagda and threaten to kill him if he leaves any of it, while invoking their wish not to be reproached for lack of hospitality.
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