Motif
Dangerous hospitality and forced eating ordeal
dangerous_hospitality_and_forced_eating_ordeal
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
inuit
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Eskimo Folk-Tales QASIAGSSAQ, THE GREAT LIAR / THE EAGLE AND THE WHALE / THE TWO LITTLE OUTCASTS / ATDLARNEQ, THE GREAT GLUTTON; lines 5038-5144 confidence: high
After the third woman appears, Atdlarneq goes ashore, hauls up his kayak, enters the house, is received kindly, and is given great quantities of food.
Atdlarneq is first received kindly and fed, but the returning master then threatens him and compels him to consume extreme quantities of food.
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