The traits of a biblical ancestor story appear in the folk stories of many other cultures (Thompson 1955:58; Olrik 1965:129–41). It has a plot with a crisis which disturbs the peace and proceeds beyond the climax to the peace-restoring denouement. The plot is never abrupt. It never begins with the most important part of the action and never ends abruptly. There is a leisurely introduction or crisis episode, and then the ancestor story always proceeds beyond the climax to a point of rest or stability