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- Wealthy (handsome) suitor disguised as beggar to test bride's kindness. H384.1.1
- Forget God for five years and you will become wealthy. J556.2
- Be diligent and spend little: how to become wealthy. Advice of a self-made man. J706.1
- God as surety; the abbot pays. A young man is ransomed by giving God as surety for the ransom money. He fails to return as agreed. The creditor sees a wealthy abbot, who says that he is a servant of God. He robs the abbot and when the young man finally appears he tells the latter than the debt is already paid by God's servant. J1559.2
- Penniless wooer: helpful animal reports master wealthy and thus wins girl for him. K1917.3
- Poor boy said by helpful animal to be dispossessed prince (wealthy man) who has lost clothes while swimming (in shipwreck). K1952.1.1
- Prophecy: wealthy marriage for poor boy. M312.1
- Prophecy: wealthy marriage for poor girl. M312.1.1
- The judge's bad-luck bringing boots. The wealthy merchant becomes a beggar, due to the judge's boots he acquired through exchange (theft). N136
- Man robbed and penniless entertained by wealthy widow and enriched. N225
- King's example makes merchant wealthy. The king buys shoes for a high price and then has all his dinner guests buy them. N415
- Wealthy (powerful) man as helper. N835
- 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
- Child abducted by robbers and brought up in their ways. Later becomes wealthy and law-abiding. R12.2.1
- Wealthy girl marries deformed and penniless philosopher. T121.5
- Bed-partner to receive payment from first man she meets in the morning. It so happens: she marries the man and he makes her wealthy. T456
- Wealthy man pretends enjoyment of good music. Told when to applaud. W116.6