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Motifs — first 20 of 33
- Helpful animal killed (threatened) by ungrateful hero. B336
- Transformation: meat to toad. Punishment for ungrateful son. D444.2
- Ungrateful dwarf. F451.5.2.1
- Ungrateful cannibal. Eats offered food and then threatens hosts. G85
- Symbolic interpretation of playing cards. Soldier reproved for playing cards during church says that playing cards are his prayerbook and calendar. Ace: one God, one Faith, one Baptism; 2: old and new Testaments; 3: Trinity; 4: evangelists; 5: wise virgins; 6: days of creation; 7: sabbath; 8. Noah's family; 9: ungrateful lepers; 10: commandments; knave (jack): Judas; queen (of Sheba); king: God; 12 face cards: 12 months; etc. H603
- Ungrateful son reproved by naïve action of his own son: preparing for old age. Man gives his old father half a carpet to keep him warm. Child keeps the other half and tells his father that he is keeping it for him when he grows old. J121
- Ungrateful son reproved by naïve action of his own son: preparing for old age (wooden drinking cup or bowl). J121.1
- Ungrateful animal returned to captivity. A man rescues a serpent (bear) who in return seeks to kill his rescuer. Fox as judge advises the man to put the serpent back into captivity. J1172.3
- Ungrateful river passenger kills carrier from within. Crawls inside during the passage. (Porcupine and buffalo.) K952.1
- Ungrateful rat defecates upon head of (or kills) octopus that rescues him from sea. K952.1.2
- Ox curses ungrateful man. M411.19.2
- Curse: "What I carry may you carry; what you carry may I carry." Cat thus causes ungrateful pregnant woman to bear cats and herself to bear twin girls. M437.1
- Supplying food to ungrateful stepmother rewarded. (Cf. Q151.2.) Q65.1
- Ungrateful children punished. (Cf. Q551.1, Q557.1, Q557.2, Q588.) Q281.1
- Ungrateful ruler is deposed. Q281.2
- Ungrateful king raises old woman's rent; miraculous punishment. (Cf. W154.2.) Q281.4
- Ungrateful son punished by having a son equally ungrateful. (Cf. Q281.1.) Q588
- Birds take back their feathers from ungrateful wolf to whom they have lent them. (Cf. Q281.) Q597.2
- The ungrateful wife. (Cf. W154.) T261
- Husband takes wife's place and receives punishment for her adultery. She is ungrateful. T261.1