96 motifs match “beggar”  ·  back to the chapters

• The owl is a baker's daughter who objected to the size of the dough put into the oven for Jesus when he appeared in her house as a beggar. A1958.0.1
• "Save it for the beggar" (substitute for "save it for tomorrow". You may be dead by tomorrow.) C490.1.1
• Protean beggar: Person assumes successive forms in order to beg. D611
• Dead beggar's stick will not stay still until back in beggar's service. (Cf. D1254.) D1651.5
• Forgotten wife gives food to beggar: husband's memory reawakened. D2006.1.10
• Magician appears as beggar or old man in order to free prisoners. D2031.4.3
• Money must be distributed to beggars so that ghost may be laid. E451.5.1
• Beggar's ghost laid when pig bought with money taken from him is brought to his grave. Sinks in grave. E451.6
• Land where everyone is wise, from the raja on his throne to the beggar in the bazaar. F129.6
• Beggar returns to his mother child stolen by fairies. F321.4
• Fairy recovers stolen cup by posing as a beggar. F361.2.1
• Satan disguised as beggar. (Cf. K1817.1.) G303.3.1.23
• Bride test: kindness – father-in-law disguised as beggar. H384.1
• Wealthy (handsome) suitor disguised as beggar to test bride's kindness. H384.1.1
• Test of wife's endurance. Haughty princess married to beggar and must endure poverty and menial work. H465
• Arrested farmer tells who he is: one son is thief (priest), second beggar (teacher), and third murderer (doctor). H581.4
• Enigmatic statement: roof has no eaves. (Else it would give the beggar shelter.) H594.1
• Enigmatic statement: the tank (pond) does not belong to you. (Else you would have given the beggar fish to eat.) H594.2
• Enigmatic statement: the flocks are only rocks and grass. (Else you would have given the beggar milk and curds.) H594.3
• Sultan takes disguise of beggar to test friends. H1558.7.1
• Saint gives liberally to gambler, little to beggar. Gambler is generous, beggar hoards. J225.6
• Rich Brahmin wearing poor clothing is treated as a beggar. J1072.2
• Blessing not worth a penny. Beggar woman asks pope for shilling and, being refused, for a penny. Finally asks for his blessing, which he gives. Old woman: "If your blessing had been worth a penny, you wouldn't have given me that." J1261.4
• Repartee concerning beggars. J1330
• Persistent beggar invited upstairs. A beggar will not come in but insists on the man coming down to the door. When he asks alms the man bids him come upstairs. Then he says he has nothing for him. "You made me come down for nothing; I make you come up for nothing." J1331
• Beggar wants bread. A numskull tells his mother that a beggar is below asking for bread. Mother: "Tell him I am not at home." Numskull: "He doesn't want you, he wants bread." J1332
• Prove me a liar. Beggar: "Good day, you stingy fellows." They: "We are not stingy fellows." Beggar: "Then give and prove me a liar." J1333
• Beggar tells stingy to go beg. They say they have no meat, no bread, no wine, etc. "Then go beg; you have more need than I." J1334
• Beggar claims to be emperor's brother. (All men are descended from Adam.) Emperor gives him small coin. Beggar protests. Emperor: "If all your brothers gave you that much you would be richer than I." J1337
• Asking costs nothing. So says beggar who asks goldsmith to plate his club with gold. J1338
• The literal host: bread and salt. Guest finds that his host spoke literally when he invited him to share his bread and salt. Later, when the host threatens an importunate beggar, the guest advises the beggar to flee since the host means what he says. J2476
• A beggar tells the bishop how to stay warm. For a gulden he tells him that he should wear all his clothes when he goes horseback in winter. K151
• To pay beggar for standing in tank all night. Beggar sees lights in temple. Payment refused since beggar has thus warmed himself. K231.14
• King promises beggars new clothes: burns their old and gets much gold and silver. Keeps it. K245
• Thief disguised as beggar. K311.17
• Blind beggar overheard telling that his money is kept in a stick. Thief exchanges sticks. K333.4
• Robber with hand of glory killed. A robber disguised as a beggar gets night's lodging at a farm house. Using a candle made of human fat or hand of a corpse, he tries to charm the household into a deep sleep (D1162.2.1). One man who is suspicious and has not gone to sleep sees this and kills the robber. K437.2
• Conqueror of robber discovers his money-stick. Thinking that he has killed the robber, the man takes his stick or knife with big handle. The robber recovers and, disguised as a beggar, inquisitively looks at the stick. The man is suspicious and by examining finds much money inside it. K437.4
• Old beggar disguised as gentleman: much money borrowed on his credit. K455.3
• Woman serves beggar with coals instead of food. K492.1
• Confederate in disguise as beggar helps to escape. K649.7.1
• Witch pretends to be starving beggar woman in order to capture child. K764
• "I don't believe you have a gold coin." Trickster handed money by each of four blind beggars, each thinking that member of group speaks. K1081.1.1
• Seduction by posing as beggar. K1315.10
• Beggar buys right to sleep before the girl's door, at foot of bed, in the bed. Usually with jewel. K1361
• Sham threat: something he has never done before. Beggar says, "If you do not give me alms I shall have to do something I have never done before." The alms are given and he is asked what he would have had to do. "Work." K1771.3
• Gods (spirits) disguised as beggars. Test hospitality. K1811.1
• Disguise as beggar (pauper). K1817.1
• Deception by substitution: wife substitutes calf for beggar whom drunken husband wants to catch and abuse. K1846
• Man in woman's clothing poses as bride for beggar. K1911.4
• Ubiquitous beggar. In disguise obtains alms three times from the same person. K1982
• Leper (beggar) laid in queen's bed. She is thus incriminated. K2112.2
• Treacherous beggar. K2291
• Disguise as beggar (pauper) to enter enemy's camp (castle) or to spy. K2357.9
• Marauder pretends beggary that king will underestimate his power. K2369.1
• Beggar with small bag surpasses the one with the large. Latter refuses all but large donations; gets none. L251
• Defeated king must be peddler or beggar. L410.4
• King (prince) becomes beggar. L419.2
• The beggar on the cross in place of Christ. Is made to leave the cross for his impatience concerning the sinners. L435.4
• Beggar's curse. Beggar is refused request. "May your bread turn to stones!" M411.2
• The judge's bad-luck bringing boots. The wealthy merchant becomes a beggar, due to the judge's boots he acquired through exchange (theft). N136
• Beggar escapes from fire. Refused hospitality, he must sleep outdoors. The house burns down. N177
• The fourteen lucky daughters. The husband leaves his wife, who has given birth to fourteen girls, thinking he is persecuted by bad luck because of failure to have a son. On the seashore, the girls find precious stones. The wife, now prosperous, finds her husband among beggars. N231
• Man accidentally fed bread which his father has poisoned. The wicked man puts poison in the bread he gives a beggar. The beggar gives his loaf to the son. N332.1
• Beggar accidentally overlooks money put into his way. N351.2
• Treasure found in beggar's hat. N524
• Money found in the dead beggar's coat. N524.1
• Princess concealed in trunk and sent to beggar, who marries her. N712.1
• Daughter's good fortune accidentally discovered by father who has become a beggar. N732.2.1
• Help from old beggar woman. N825.3.1
• Help from beggar. (Cf. N825.3.1.) N826
• Beggars. P160
• Beggars' many children. P161
• Beggar rewarded by king for poem (song). P163
• Man who divides his food with beggar is later freed from captivity by him. Q42.1.2
• The rich man's trial in heaven. A piece of bread given to a beggar is placed on the scales. Q172.2.1
• Beggar avenges self on queen who spits at him by disguising as prince and spitting in her face. Q471.2
• Punishment for cupidity: rich man's foot caught in church door: extricated only when he sends money to beggar. Q551.2.8.1
• Angry man gives away his daughter to a beggar. S235
• Maid vexes suitor by pretense. Noble maid who is to marry knight pretends to be beggar's daughter. T77
• Infertile raja marries beggar woman in hope of having a son. T121.8.1
• Old beggar transforms wedding party into wolves. (Cf. D113.1.) T155
• Wealth is relative: beggar with horse, wife, or dog considered rich by poorer beggar. U65
• Newly rich cannot resist call for distribution of food to beggars. U130.1
• Christ disguised as beggar. V211.2.1.2
• Saint exchanges coat with beggar: gold sleeves miraculously appear. V411.2
• Charitable king blows nose after having given to beggar. Huge ruby appears in his kerchief. V411.7
• Jesus appears to St. Martin when he gives his cloak to beggar. V411.8
• Man beggars self by charity. V432
• Philanthropist will give his spurs if someone will drive his horse for him. He has given away his coat, etc. to beggars. One finally asks for his spurs. W11.1
• Three lazy beggars burn alive rather than run away from burning castle. W111.1.1.4
• The honest miller. Baker cannot understand how a man who has been a miller can be a beggar. It is a wonder that the farmers are not beggars instead. X212
• Beggar frightens lawyer into giving by telling him of all the lawyers in hell. X312
• Jokes concerning beggars. X530
• Formulas signifying fruitlessness, e.g. like putting a withe about sand, like mocking a beggar. Z63
• Poverty personified as diseased beggar woman. Z133.1