“hungry” — Mythoi

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Earth supported on post. The post has an old woman as guardian. When she is hungry the post shakes, causing earthquakes. A843
Hungry lions do not harm saint. B771.2.1
Spear rushes out of joking raja's hand and pierces his visitor's chest; it is hungry for blood and has had no food for twelve years. D1601.4.2.1
Hungry ghosts haunt house seeking food. E281.1
Hungry ghost reborn as jackal. E694.1
Changeling is always hungry, demands food all the time. F321.1.2.2
Dwarf children are hungry. F451.3.5.3
Hungry seamen eat human flesh. G70.1
King: What is your mother doing? Youth: She drives away the hungry and compels the filled to eat. (Drives away the hungry hens and stuffs the geese.) H583.4.4
Task: coming neither hungry nor satiated. (Eats a thin soup, a leaf, a single grain, or the like.) H1063
Don't drive away the flies. Wounded animal (man) refuses to have the flies driven away since they are now sated and their places will be taken by fierce and hungry flies. J215.1
Don't set a hungry guard over food. Parrot set to guard figs eats his fill. When replaced he calls attention to the fact that he is now full and therefore safer than another hungry parrot. J215.1.1
Man leaves farming for fishing. When water dries up he goes hungry. J345.2
Association of cow and tiger: tiger eats cow as soon as she is hungry. J427
Man, lion, and bear in pit. Bear tells lion not to eat the man, since he would grow hungry again. Rather they should have the man use his intelligence to get them out. J685.1
Retorts from hungry persons. J1340
Hungry apprentice attracts master's attention by telling lies on him. J1341.5
Hungry shepherd attracts attention. He tells of a cow with four teats who bore five calves. They ask what the fifth calf does while the other four are nursing. "It looks on just as I am doing now." J1341.6
Hungry son gets cherries. He slaps another son, and explains that the other boy was saying that he would not get any of the father's cherries. The father shares the cherries. J1341.9
Hungry student gets meat. By telling a mewing cat that it could not yet have the bones because no meat has been served him, a collegian calls attention to an oversight on the part of a servant. J1341.10

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