26 motifs match “stingy”  ·  back to the chapters

• Woodpecker transformed from stingy woman: therefore stingy. A2261.4
• 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
• Stingy innkeeper cured of serving weak beer. She always gives the servants a pitcher of weak beer before meals so as to fill them up. One of them: "I wash out my insides so as to have more room for food." She changes her practice. J1341.7
• Rebuke to the stingy. J1522
• Stingy man rebuked when his children are feasted in his absence. They think he has been responsible and honor him. He reforms. J1522.2
• Servant repays stingy master (mistress). J1561.4
• Guest brings along cakes to eat. Stingy host rebuked. J1575
• Stingy almsgiving repaid. J1581
• Any boon desired. Stingy king insists on trickster asking any boon desired. By asking king to perform disgusting act, trickster compels king to give expensive gift. J1593
• Tailor throws piece of cloth out of the window. The stingy woman has the tailor come to her house to cut cloth. He throws a piece out of the window, "the devil's share". While the woman has gone after it he cuts off a piece for himself. K341.13
• The stingy parson and the slaughtered pig. The stingy parson does not want to give any one a part of his pig, which he has just slaughtered. The sexton advises him to hang the pig up in the garden over night so as to make everyone think that it has been stolen. The sexton steals it himself. K343.2.1
• Rich but stingy couple adopt young man as their son: everybody is happy. T673
• Stingy dead woman raises her head to correct account of laundress, who is overcharging her daughter. W152.3
• Stingy man forced to share his money when he lies and says he has none. W152.4
• Stingy woman will not give soup to man until she spills it. Then she says he may have the soup. W152.5
• Stingy king will not hire soldiers: defeated. W152.6
• Spider in stingy woman's house grows thin. W152.7
• Stingy horse refuses ass little feed, though he promises much for later time. W152.8
• Stingy man cancels invitations to his guests. "It is better that they speak ill of me on an empty stomach than on a full one." W152.9
• Stingy men love possessions so much that they wear out their feet to save shoes. W152.11
• Stingy man and his servants. W152.12
• Stingy farmer encourages help by promise of hot lunch. The servant discovers that the hot lunch is a mustard sandwich. W152.12.2
• The stingy man and his animals. W152.13
• Stingy man does not eat butter; only looks at it and enjoys the thought. W152.15
• Wife of stingy man prays that her husband become sick so that she can get better food. W152.16