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- Ass carries usurer's body to the gallows instead of to the church. He has been denied burial in the church. B151.1.1.2.1
- Usurer cannot rest in grave. E411.4
- Unscrupulous conduct of business learned from observation of usurer's own practices and used against him. J56
- Wife of usurer saves husband through her prayers. J155.5
- Usurer blackmailed. Shrewd suitor persuades usurer to charge him 100 per cent interest, then has him arrested. Thus gets daughter for wife. K443.11
- Oxen bear dead usurer to gallows to be buried. They are allowed to go where they will. N277
- Usurer. P435
- Wealthy usurer prays that the sons of the rich will become mad. That will benefit his business. His own sons lose their minds. P435.1
- Usurer stops lending money. He does so, not because it is wrong, but because he is losing money. P435.2
- Devil comes for usurer. (Cf. R11.2.1.) Q273.1
- Dead usurer fed molten silver by devil. Q273.1.1
- Usurer refused burial. Q273.2
- Usurer punished in hell. Q273.3
- Church built by usurer's money made to collapse by devil. Q273.4
- Usurer flees city to escape plague. On his return he boasts that God did not get him. He takes the plague and dies. (Cf. Q221.3.) Q558.3
- Only usurers to carry body of usurer to grave. V62.2
- Charity of usurers ineffective. V431
- Usurer's ingratitude toward servant. Dismisses him and charges him for a rope which he had cut while saving the usurer from hanging. W154.1.1
- Jokes concerning usurers. X510
- Barber alone praises usurer. Custom not to bury dead until someone has something good to say about him. No one will praise a dead usurer until a barber is willing to say that he had a good beard. X511