32 motifs match “hungry”  ·  back to the chapters

• Earth supported on post. The post has an old woman as guardian. When she is hungry the post shakes, causing earthquakes. A843
• Hungry lions do not harm saint. B771.2.1
• Spear rushes out of joking raja's hand and pierces his visitor's chest; it is hungry for blood and has had no food for twelve years. D1601.4.2.1
• Hungry ghosts haunt house seeking food. E281.1
• Hungry ghost reborn as jackal. E694.1
• Changeling is always hungry, demands food all the time. F321.1.2.2
• Dwarf children are hungry. F451.3.5.3
• Hungry seamen eat human flesh. G70.1
• King: What is your mother doing? Youth: She drives away the hungry and compels the filled to eat. (Drives away the hungry hens and stuffs the geese.) H583.4.4
• Task: coming neither hungry nor satiated. (Eats a thin soup, a leaf, a single grain, or the like.) H1063
• Don't drive away the flies. Wounded animal (man) refuses to have the flies driven away since they are now sated and their places will be taken by fierce and hungry flies. J215.1
• Don't set a hungry guard over food. Parrot set to guard figs eats his fill. When replaced he calls attention to the fact that he is now full and therefore safer than another hungry parrot. J215.1.1
• Man leaves farming for fishing. When water dries up he goes hungry. J345.2
• Association of cow and tiger: tiger eats cow as soon as she is hungry. J427
• Man, lion, and bear in pit. Bear tells lion not to eat the man, since he would grow hungry again. Rather they should have the man use his intelligence to get them out. J685.1
• Retorts from hungry persons. J1340
• Hungry apprentice attracts master's attention by telling lies on him. J1341.5
• Hungry shepherd attracts attention. He tells of a cow with four teats who bore five calves. They ask what the fifth calf does while the other four are nursing. "It looks on just as I am doing now." J1341.6
• Hungry son gets cherries. He slaps another son, and explains that the other boy was saying that he would not get any of the father's cherries. The father shares the cherries. J1341.9
• Hungry student gets meat. By telling a mewing cat that it could not yet have the bones because no meat has been served him, a collegian calls attention to an oversight on the part of a servant. J1341.10
• "Cause liberality to be depicted." Answer of hungry man when host asks for suggestion for a picture to be painted of something that has not been seen. J1576
• Hungry man eats intestines of fish next morning after refusing to do so the evening before. J1606.1
• Countryman visiting rich relative in the city refuses to eat dessert: "No, I am not hungry." J1742.3.1
• The hungry fox waits in vain for horse's scrotum (lips) to fall off. J2066.1
• Dupe persuaded to throw away his knife. Later must go hungry because he has no knife to cut the meat. K1141
• Contract between hungry god and untouchable: to give gods food it they will eat from his hands. M242.2
• King does not eat much during years of famine in order not to forget the hungry. P14.23
• When hungry man tries to gather fruit it flies out of his reach. Q501.2.1
• Woman reveals whereabouts of husband to hungry bear in revenge for desertion. T244.1
• Cat unjustly accuses cock and eats him. Although all the cock's defenses are good the cat tells him that she can no longer go hungry and eats him. U31.1
• The hungry parson and the porridge-pot. Overnight at the peasant's house. The hungry parson hunts the porridge in the dark, guided by a rope the sexton has given him. Series of accidents. X431
• The lazy servant and the grain. "Lentils, lentils, get into my sack!" Final formula: the hungry hawk attacks the hens, the hens the worms, the worms the stick, the stick the ox, the ox runs to the water, the water attacks the fire, the fire the hunters, the hunters the wolf, the wolf the goat, the goat the willow, the willow the cat, the cat the mice, the mice the lentils, the lentils go whoosh whoosh into the sack. Z41.9