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Group No. 184


Letter

W. Traits of character

Group No.

W100 – W199

Group name

Unfavorable traits of character

Description

W125. Gluttony. Jewish: *Neuman; India: *Thompson-Balys; N. A. Indian (California): Gayton and Newman 67.
 
W126. Disobedience. Missouri French: CarriРёre; Spanish Exempla: Keller; Jewish: Neuman.
 
W137. Curiosity. Missouri French: CarriРёre; Jewish: *Neuman; Icelandic: Boberg.
 
W141. Talkativeness. Jewish: Neuman.
 
W151. Greed. Irish myth: Cross; Jewish: *Neuman; Icelandic: *Boberg; West Indies: Flowers 582.
 
W154. Ingratitude. Jewish: *Neuman; India: *Thompson-Balys.
 
W154.3. Crane pulls bone from wolf's throat: wolf refuses payment. That you were allowed to take your beak from my throat is payment enough. (Cf. B382.) *Type 76; *Crane Vitry 192 No. 136; *Wienert FFC LVI 54 n. 3 (ET 145), 147 (ST 517); Halm Aesop No. 276; Jacobs Aesop 200 No. 5. – Spanish Exempla: Keller; Italian Novella: Rotunda; Jewish: *Neuman; India: *Thompson-Balys.
 
W154.8. Grateful animals; ungrateful man. A traveler saves a monkey, a snake, a tiger, and a jeweler from a pit. The monkey gives him fruit; the tiger a necklace of a princess he has killed. The jeweler accuses the rescuer before the king. The serpent saves him by biting the prince and then showing the man the proper remedy. *Type 160; Chauvin II 106 No. 71; *Penzer V 157 n. 1; Cosquin Р™tudes 22ff.; Moe Samlede Skrifter I 192ff.; *BP IV 139; *Wesselski Theorie 82ff.; *Oesterley No. 119; Fb ulvgrav; BС€dker Exempler 304 No. 25. – Spanish Exempla: Keller; Jewish: bin Gorion Born Judas@2 IV 51, 277, Neuman; India: *Thompson-Balys; Africa: Frobenius Atlantis IX 385f. Nos. 103, 104, (Gold Coast): Barker and Sinclair 163 No. 32, (Zanzibar): Bateman 81ff. No. 6.
 
W185. Violence of temper. Jewish: *Neuman.

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