84 motifs match “wealth”  ·  back to the chapters

• God of wealth. A473
• Goddess of wealth. A473.1
• Dog guards master's life and wealth: may eat before other animals. A2223.5
• Animal as patron of wealth. B108
• Serpent as patron of wealth. B108.1
• Parrot and sparrow argue right to inherit property left by man. Sparrow says his interests are the same as man's; parrot says that he caused all man's wealth, since man sold his feathers. People's decision for parrot. B271.1
• Animals' advice leads man to wealth. B562
• Animal helps men to wealth and greatness. B580
• Animal brings wealth to man. B581
• Animal helps man to wealth and greatness – miscellaneous. B589
• Tabu: boasting of wealth. C451
• Magic ring multiplies wealth. D1456.2.1
• Magic jewel provides wealth. (Cf. D1071.) D1456.3
• Consecrated bread brings wealth. (Cf. D1031.1.1.) D1465.1.1
• Magic stone furnishes wealth. (Cf. D931.) D1466
• Magic book furnishes wealth. (Cf. D1266.) D1469.6
• Wealth from drawing cow's feet over money box. (Cf. D1029.3.) D1469.7
• Statue of eagle gives wealth. D1469.13.1
• Magic wealth. (Cf. D1450.) D2100
• Devil in each stone of church built with ill-gotten wealth. G303.8.4.2
• Devil disguised as man tells of trip to heaven and hell. Heaven is full of wretches who weep, fast, and pray. Hell is full of wealth, power, and good living. G303.9.7.4
• Cannibal offers wealth to save his life. G683
• Wealthy (handsome) suitor disguised as beggar to test bride's kindness. H384.1.1
• Test of gratitude: magician makes pupil believe himself superior. Though he has promised magician great rewards he forgets his promise. Wealth removed. H1565.1
• Wisdom wins contest of wisdom and wealth. J185
• Minister's clever daughter-in-law uses wisdom to defeat Brahmin's wealth. J185.1
• Choice: free poverty or enslaved wealth. J211
• Man gives all his wealth away, for it is better to die than to give up virtue. J211.1.1
• Solomon, permitted by God to make any request, asks wisdom. Granted wisdom and wealth. J231.1
• Goodness preferred to wealth. J247
• Wealth and glory sacrificed for freedom and virtue. J347
• Man refuses vast wealth because with it will come covetousness. J347.1
• God of wealth in bad company. Heracles on his arrival in heaven fails to greet Plutus, the god of wealth: he has seen him in too bad company. J451.3
• Wealth and wisdom dispute as to who is greater. J461.7
• Enjoyment preferred to wealth. J484
• Forget God for five years and you will become wealthy. J556.2
• Acquisition of wealth. J706
• Be diligent and spend little: how to become wealthy. Advice of a self-made man. J706.1
• Wealth is most important. J707
• Rich man humbled by realization that he cannot take his wealth with him. J912.3
• Poor man returns to the emperor all save enough for comfort: wealth would take happiness from his simple life. J1085.4
• God as surety; the abbot pays. A young man is ransomed by giving God as surety for the ransom money. He fails to return as agreed. The creditor sees a wealthy abbot, who says that he is a servant of God. He robs the abbot and when the young man finally appears he tells the latter than the debt is already paid by God's servant. J1559.2
• King's capriciousness censured: the ass in the stream. A nobleman seeing an ass letting water in a river remarks that it reminds him of his king. He explains to the king that just as the ass puts water where it is already plentiful, so the king awards wealth where it is not needed. The king says that it is all in the nature of the nobleman's fate. Subsequent events prove this. J1675.3
• "Thank Fortune I'm out of business." Philosopher loses all his wealth at sea. Thanks Fortune for taking him out of business. Can now devote his life to philosophy. J2569
• Fortune to go to direction cat jumps. King will give wealth to person toward whom the cat jumps. Clever woman has brought mouse along and thus entices the cat. K2.1
• Pseudo-magic wealth-providing bag sold. K111.3
• To keep first thing touched. Wealth (or woman) is on platform. First thing touched is ladder leading up. K285
• Bluff: wealth gained by seeming to be in the king's confidence. Courtier asks the king for a reward that will cost nothing. He gets permission to listen to the king's devotions. He now receives bribes because of his apparent influence. K1782
• Penniless bride pretends to wealth. K1911.5
• Penniless bridegroom pretends to wealth. K1917
• Penniless wooer: helpful animal reports master wealthy and thus wins girl for him. K1917.3
• Man wins girl's love by pretending to wealth and nobility. Deception is discovered and impostor is banished. K1917.5
• Nurse exchanges children so that the preferred child will be assured of wealth. K1923.1
• Poor boy said by helpful animal to be dispossessed prince (wealthy man) who has lost clothes while swimming (in shipwreck). K1952.1.1
• Helpful cat borrows measure for his master's money. The master thus gains a reputation for wealth. K1954.1
• Enemy induced to surrender city by show of wealth on part of besiegers, who shoot golden apples over walls. K2365.2
• Enemy soldiers persuaded by show of great wealth and generosity of king to desert to his side. K2365.3
• Solomon, offered any gift from God, chooses wisdom. Granted wisdom and wealth. L212.2
• Pride or wealth of man brought low by actions of gods. L473
• Prophecy: wealthy marriage for poor boy. M312.1
• Prophecy: wealthy marriage for poor girl. M312.1.1
• Father hides wealth to keep son from gambling it away. N94
• The judge's bad-luck bringing boots. The wealthy merchant becomes a beggar, due to the judge's boots he acquired through exchange (theft). N136
• Which is more powerful, wealth or wisdom? N141.2
• Weaver married by Wealth to a princess to show Wisdom that he is the more powerful. N141.4
• Man robbed and penniless entertained by wealthy widow and enriched. N225
• Man who aspires to greater wealth loses all. When he is about to be rewarded by king the latter dies. N251.2
• King's example makes merchant wealthy. The king buys shoes for a high price and then has all his dinner guests buy them. N415
• Secret wealth betrayed by money left in borrowed money-scales. N478
• Man dreams of large jars full of wealth, which he can get if he will sacrifice his wife for the getting. N531.5
• Wealthy (powerful) man as helper. N835
• 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
• Uncharitable king loses wealth. (Cf. Q286, Q585.1.) Q595.3
• Child abducted by robbers and brought up in their ways. Later becomes wealthy and law-abiding. R12.2.1
• Man sacrifices his wife to procure wealth in jars. S263.6
• Wealthy girl marries deformed and penniless philosopher. T121.5
• Girl gives up wealth and flees to escape lecherous emperor. T320.5
• Bed-partner to receive payment from first man she meets in the morning. It so happens: she marries the man and he makes her wealthy. T456
• Wealth and poverty. U60
• Wealth is relative: beggar with horse, wife, or dog considered rich by poorer beggar. U65
• Youngest brother shares wealth with older brothers who foolishly lost theirs. (Cf. L31.) W11.14
• Wealthy man pretends enjoyment of good music. Told when to applaud. W116.6
• Miser is rebuked by friend. "You get no benefit from your wealth." Proves his folly. W153.10
• Three reasons why men should condemn wealth. Z71.1.16