Motif
conditional hospitality to outsiders
conditional_hospitality_to_outsiders
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
islamicate folklore
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The Arabian Nights Entertainments The Arabian Nights Entertainments; lines 1552-1647 confidence: high
Zobeida allows the porter to stay only if he behaves with utmost politeness and keeps secret the ladies' way of living, which chance has revealed to him.
The porter and then the Calenders are admitted into the household only after the household authority sets behavioral conditions.
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