Avaricious miser tries to eat his adored money and chokes to death — Mythoi

Motif

Avaricious miser tries to eat his adored money and chokes to death.

Rewards and punishments. · Deeds punished. · Misdeeds concerning property punished. · view the constellation · filed as Q272.3

Filed across the traditions

Spanish Exempla Keller.

Within the index

Filed under Avarice punished. (Cf. Q552.3.5, Q589.1.0.1, W151.)

Filed beside it

Devil carries off rich man Avaricious man has neck broken when top of his treasure chest falls on him Avaricious woman and her gold consumed by hell's fires which burn in her grave

Carried in tale types

The Death of a Miser · ATU 760A* 1 recorded variant

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