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- Money must be distributed to beggars so that ghost may be laid. E451.5.1
- Repartee concerning beggars. J1330
- King promises beggars new clothes: burns their old and gets much gold and silver. Keeps it. K245
- "I don't believe you have a gold coin." Trickster handed money by each of four blind beggars, each thinking that member of group speaks. K1081.1.1
- Gods (spirits) disguised as beggars. Test hospitality. K1811.1
- The fourteen lucky daughters. The husband leaves his wife, who has given birth to fourteen girls, thinking he is persecuted by bad luck because of failure to have a son. On the seashore, the girls find precious stones. The wife, now prosperous, finds her husband among beggars. N231
- Beggars. P160
- Beggars' many children. P161
- Newly rich cannot resist call for distribution of food to beggars. U130.1
- Man beggars self by charity. V432
- Philanthropist will give his spurs if someone will drive his horse for him. He has given away his coat, etc. to beggars. One finally asks for his spurs. W11.1
- Three lazy beggars burn alive rather than run away from burning castle. W111.1.1.4
- The honest miller. Baker cannot understand how a man who has been a miller can be a beggar. It is a wonder that the farmers are not beggars instead. X212
- Jokes concerning beggars. X530