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- Penniless bride pretends to wealth. K1911.5
- Penniless bridegroom pretends to wealth. K1917
- Penniless wooer: patch of land. After marriage he takes the bride to look at his land. He puts on soiled clothes. She looks at the land; he points to the patch on his clothes. "That patch is mine." K1917.1
- Penniless wooer: money in hand. An uncle gives the boy a coin and food to hold while he woos for him. He tells the girl's father that the boy has a piece of money in hand and plenty to eat. Wins the girl. K1917.2
- Penniless wooer: helpful animal reports master wealthy and thus wins girl for him. K1917.3
- Penniless wooer. "House of my father with one hundred fifty lights and goat pen." When the servant in bed so remarks the master marries his daughter to him. Arrived at the hut, he explains that the lights are the stars whose beams enter through the cracks in the roof. One goat is tied to the tree. K1917.4
- Penniless hero. Loved by a courtesan, he proves later to be a great man. L123.1
- Man robbed and penniless entertained by wealthy widow and enriched. N225
- Wealthy girl marries deformed and penniless philosopher. T121.5