Spendthrift knight. Divides his last penny. He is later helped by the grateful person — Mythoi

Motif

Spendthrift knight. Divides his last penny. He is later helped by the grateful person.

Rewards and punishments. · Deeds rewarded. · Kindness rewarded. · view the constellation · filed as Q42.1

Filed across the traditions

Japanese Anesaki 320.
general *Types 508, 592, 665
general BP II 490ff., Scala Celi 81b No. 467
general *Hibbard 73, 79
general Alphabet No. 291

Within the index

Filed under Generosity rewarded.

3 finer motifs beneath it

Child divides last loaf with fairy (witch, etc.). Rewarded Man who divides his food with beggar is later freed from captivity by him Excessive hospitality causes chieftain to become poor

Filed beside it

Reward for providing coffins for poor Generosity to saint (god) in disguise rewarded. (Cf. Q1, Q45.1.) Man frees slave (incognito prince): rewarded when slave becomes king Reward for generosity to king's buffoon. Ruler rewards herald who is generous to his buffoon Reward for tearing out eye when demanded Reward for remitting tribute. (Cf. Q172.7.) Saint gives a man all his credit for good deeds so that the man may go to heaven. Saint is then rewarded with even greater credit. (Cf. Q172.) Cobbler gives new pair of shoes to poor boy and says: "You can pay me when you become archbishop." Generously rewarded many years later

Carried in tale types

The Man who Flew like a Bird and Swam like a Fish · ATU 665 4 recorded variants
The Dance Among Thorns · ATU 592 2 recorded variants

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