33 motifs match “ungrateful”  ·  back to the chapters

• Helpful animal killed (threatened) by ungrateful hero. B336
• Transformation: meat to toad. Punishment for ungrateful son. D444.2
• Ungrateful dwarf. F451.5.2.1
• Ungrateful cannibal. Eats offered food and then threatens hosts. G85
• Symbolic interpretation of playing cards. Soldier reproved for playing cards during church says that playing cards are his prayerbook and calendar. Ace: one God, one Faith, one Baptism; 2: old and new Testaments; 3: Trinity; 4: evangelists; 5: wise virgins; 6: days of creation; 7: sabbath; 8. Noah's family; 9: ungrateful lepers; 10: commandments; knave (jack): Judas; queen (of Sheba); king: God; 12 face cards: 12 months; etc. H603
• Ungrateful son reproved by naïve action of his own son: preparing for old age. Man gives his old father half a carpet to keep him warm. Child keeps the other half and tells his father that he is keeping it for him when he grows old. J121
• Ungrateful son reproved by naïve action of his own son: preparing for old age (wooden drinking cup or bowl). J121.1
• Ungrateful animal returned to captivity. A man rescues a serpent (bear) who in return seeks to kill his rescuer. Fox as judge advises the man to put the serpent back into captivity. J1172.3
• Ungrateful river passenger kills carrier from within. Crawls inside during the passage. (Porcupine and buffalo.) K952.1
• Ungrateful rat defecates upon head of (or kills) octopus that rescues him from sea. K952.1.2
• Ox curses ungrateful man. M411.19.2
• Curse: "What I carry may you carry; what you carry may I carry." Cat thus causes ungrateful pregnant woman to bear cats and herself to bear twin girls. M437.1
• Supplying food to ungrateful stepmother rewarded. (Cf. Q151.2.) Q65.1
• Ungrateful children punished. (Cf. Q551.1, Q557.1, Q557.2, Q588.) Q281.1
• Ungrateful ruler is deposed. Q281.2
• Ungrateful king raises old woman's rent; miraculous punishment. (Cf. W154.2.) Q281.4
• Ungrateful son punished by having a son equally ungrateful. (Cf. Q281.1.) Q588
• Birds take back their feathers from ungrateful wolf to whom they have lent them. (Cf. Q281.) Q597.2
• The ungrateful wife. (Cf. W154.) T261
• Husband takes wife's place and receives punishment for her adultery. She is ungrateful. T261.1
• Monster ungrateful for rescue. W154.2
• Man ungrateful for rescue by animal. W154.2.2
• Ungrateful fox hits with tail the man who carries him across stream. W154.5.1
• Ungrateful ape plucks feathers from heron who has carried him across water. W154.5.1.3
• Ungrateful wanderer pulls nut tree to pieces to get the nuts. W154.6
• Grateful animals; ungrateful man. A traveler saves a monkey, a snake, a tiger, and a jeweler from a pit. The monkey gives him fruit; the tiger a necklace of a princess he has killed. The jeweler accuses the rescuer before the king. The serpent saves him by biting the prince and then showing the man the proper remedy. W154.8
• Snake kills ungrateful tamer. W154.10
• Knight is ungrateful for rescue in battle. W154.12.1
• Ungrateful Brahmin brings his wild goose rescuer to king as remedy against leprosy. W154.12.2
• Ungrateful brothers plot against rescuer. W154.12.3
• Benefactor falsely accused of theft by ungrateful youth. W154.13
• Man ungrateful for life saved because rescuer helped others also. W154.18
• Ungrateful Jew steals horse of Christian who has lent it to him. W154.19