The constellation
J514 One should not be too greedy
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● motif
● tale type
● on the shelf
● attested
The same sky, in words
filed under
- Prudence in ambition · J510 entry
beneath it
- Kite tries to carry off so many partridges that he drops them all · J514.1 entry
- Wolf tries to eat bowstring. Finds hunter, gazelle, and wild boar dead. Tries first to eat the bowstring, and is mortally wounded · J514.2 entry
- Greedy man keeps demanding one more thing from complacent man; at last is magically blinded · J514.3 entry
- Greedy pig looks up into tree for figs. This causes his death · J514.4 entry
- Greedy man dissatisfied with gold looks for jewels; finds only iron and eventually nothing · J514.5 entry
- Fowler wants two rubies as ransom for a caught goose; loses goose and both rubies · J514.6 entry
carried in tale type
- The Hen that Laid the Golden Eggs · ATU 219E**
- The Fisherman and his Wife · ATU 555