24 motifs match “usurer”  ·  back to the chapters

• Ass carries usurer's body to the gallows instead of to the church. He has been denied burial in the church. B151.1.1.2.1
• Usurer cannot rest in grave. E411.4
• Unscrupulous conduct of business learned from observation of usurer's own practices and used against him. J56
• Wife of usurer saves husband through her prayers. J155.5
• Usurer blackmailed. Shrewd suitor persuades usurer to charge him 100 per cent interest, then has him arrested. Thus gets daughter for wife. K443.11
• Oxen bear dead usurer to gallows to be buried. They are allowed to go where they will. N277
• Usurer. P435
• Wealthy usurer prays that the sons of the rich will become mad. That will benefit his business. His own sons lose their minds. P435.1
• Usurer stops lending money. He does so, not because it is wrong, but because he is losing money. P435.2
• Devil comes for usurer. (Cf. R11.2.1.) Q273.1
• Dead usurer fed molten silver by devil. Q273.1.1
• Usurer refused burial. Q273.2
• Usurer punished in hell. Q273.3
• Church built by usurer's money made to collapse by devil. Q273.4
• Usurer flees city to escape plague. On his return he boasts that God did not get him. He takes the plague and dies. (Cf. Q221.3.) Q558.3
• Only usurers to carry body of usurer to grave. V62.2
• Charity of usurers ineffective. V431
• Usurer's ingratitude toward servant. Dismisses him and charges him for a rope which he had cut while saving the usurer from hanging. W154.1.1
• Jokes concerning usurers. X510
• Barber alone praises usurer. Custom not to bury dead until someone has something good to say about him. No one will praise a dead usurer until a barber is willing to say that he had a good beard. X511
• Usurers do not reply. The parson asks the various trades and professions to rise one by one for a special blessing. When he calls for the usurers none reply. X512
• Devil will not carry usurers to hell but will drag them by the legs. So declares a youth paid by a usurer to protest against the priest's remarks that the devil would carry all usurers off. X513
• Only usurers can carry the corpse of the usurer. It refuses to be moved by anyone else. (Cf. X521.) X514
• Usurer encourages sermons against usury, so that his competitors will cease activity. X516