27 motifs match “hunger”  ·  back to the chapters

• Culture hero spares certain evil spirits. Old Age, Cold, Poverty, and Hunger beg the culture hero not to destroy them because of their real usefulness to man. A531.1
• Hunger in hell. A689.3
• Earth-tree furnishes health-giving and hunger-satisfying sap. A878.4
• Origin of hunger. A1345
• Faithful animal at master's grave dies of hunger. B301.1
• Birds save man from hunger by pitching themselves to roast in fire he has made. B531.5
• Magic object produces immunity from hunger and thirst. D1349.1
• Magic peach produces immunity from hunger and thirst. (Cf. D981.2.) D1349.1.1
• Magic perfume produces immunity from hunger and thirst. (Cf. D1245.) D1349.1.2
• Magic milk produces immunity from hunger and thirst. (Cf. D1018.) D1349.1.3
• Magic belt produces immunity from hunger. (Cf. D1057.) D1349.1.4
• Magic sweets: one can quench thirst and the other can allay hunger. (Cf. D1038.) D1349.1.5
• One drop of blood when licked satisfies hunger. (Cf. D1003.) D1349.1.6.1
• Magic object causes constant hunger. D1373
• Fetish medicine causes constant hunger. (Cf. D1241.) D1373.1
• Two loaves of bread – one to excite, the other to appease hunger. (Cf. D1031.1.) D1373.2
• Magic apple satisfies hunger. (Cf. D981.1.) D1472.1.36
• Tightening belt to counteract hunger: when loosened person falls dead. F1076
• Food alone keeps off hunger. J712
• Mice die of hunger. Complaints against underpaid priest that he does not stay at home. Says he cannot stay at home for the mice are dying of hunger since he receives only forty florins a year. J1269.10
• The porter's revenge for the three wise counsels. A man offers a porter three wise counsels for carrying his goods. "When anyone tells you that hunger and satisfaction are the same, don't believe him." The second and third are similar and equally valueless. The porter throws down the load: "When anyone tells you that any part of this load is not broken, don't believe him." J1511.6
• Starving colt fierce from hunger, but fool refuses to feed it lest it become fiercer. J2214.10
• Monkey causes girl to cry as if from hunger: eats food given her. K461.2
• Wolf prefers liberty and hunger to dog's servitude and plenty. L451.3
• Prophecy: three-fold death. Child to die from hunger, fire, and water. It so happens. M341.2.4
• Wager: whose hunger is it more difficult to appease – that of man or that of beast? When nuts are strewn before master's well-fed guests, they snatch and eat them. Herdsman wins wager. N73
• Mother's parting gift to adventuring son: the two loaves of bread. One for hunger, one for overeating. N782