ATU 760A* The Death of a Miser
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The tale in brief
A dying miser swallows his money; after his death the devil shakes the coins out of him and carries him off, or a bold man gets them from the corpse. In the three Estonian tales the dying man eats his money, by the handful or stirred into sour milk, so that his heirs shall not have it; in one he recovers and is left with nothing.
Summary written for RunoVerse and checked against the Finnic texts linked on this page.
Estonian treasure legends
Types of Estonian treasure legends that RunoVerse links to this tale type. A canonical reference rests on a catalogue number in the legend type’s name; strong parallels and experimental matches rest on a shared plot or shared motifs.
- P 760: Surija peidab raha: sööb ära (~ATU 760A*) · 3 records · canonical reference
Motifs and related tale types
Motifs: Avaricious Miser Tries to Eat His Adored Money and Chokes to Death Q272.3
Sources
Tale-type number, title, classification, related types and the Finnic sources: Hans-Jörg Uther, The Types of International Folktales (FF Communications 284–286, Helsinki 2004). · Uther 2004, part I (FF Communications 284), free online ↗
Treasure-legend links: RunoVerse’s matching of the Estonian treasure-legend types with the tale types.
Motifs and combinations with other tale types: the Trilogy dataset, from Stith Thompson’s Motif-Index of Folk-Literature and the ATU catalogue.
The plot summary, the notes and the arrangement of this page are RunoVerse’s own.