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- Ass tries to get a cricket's voice. Asks crickets what they eat to get such a voice. They answer, "dew." He tries it and starves. J512.8
- Improvident mouse eats grain stored for famine. Loss is discovered and grain placed elsewhere. Mouse, who has saved nothing, starves. J711.2
- City without provisions but with much money starves. J712.1
- Numskull starves himself. J2135
- Fasting the first month. Numskull having enough food to last him eleven out of the twelve months fasts the entire first month so as to get the ordeal over. He starves with eleven months' supply on hand. J2135.1
- Human milk as best diet (for baby). Fool therefore will take nothing but milk from his wife and starves the baby. J2214.4
- Fool waits for God to provide. Nearly starves. J2215.4
- "Don't eat too greedily." Fool starves himself at table. Later hunts food in house and gets into trouble. J2541
- Deceptive bargain: fasting together. The servant girl eats secretly; the miser starves. K177
- Trickster paid to educate an ass. He gets paid in advance. He gradually starves the ass. K491
- Man undertakes to cure fat abbot of stomach ailment. Starves him until he admits he can eat anything. K1955.1.1
- Daw fleeing from captivity caught in trees by thread around foot. Starves. N255.5
- Man is so lazy that he starves rather than open his mouth for food to fall in when it falls from trees. W111.5.8.1
- Visitors of sick stag eat up all his provisions so that he starves. W151.2.1
- Man overloads and starves camel. W155.1.2