avarice

On Halloween night, Jack--a stingy and mean man--makes a deal with the devil for a free dinner, only to regret his choice many years later when the devil comes to collect.

Edward, unwilling to share his toys with his sister, has a change of heart when she has something he wants.

The mysterious death of an eccentric millionaire brings together an unlikely assortment of heirs who must uncover the circumstances of his death before they can claim their inheritance.

The fisherman's greedy wife is never satisfied with the wishes granted her by an enchanted fish.

A greedy baker buys his wife a magic bed that flies them to the master baker, where they are given special yeast that helps their bakery become, for a while, the most popular in Florence.

Kino, a poor Mexican pearl-diver, believes he has received the answer to his prayers when he finds a great pearl worth a fortune, but tragedy soon follows.

George and Serena Pemberton negotiate the terrain of love and betrayal in the mountainous wilderness of North Carolina, where they build a timber business; when Serena learns that she will not bear a child, she plots to murder the illegitimate son George previously fathered in the area.

Terrible events follow the discovery of a magnificent pearl by a poor Mexican fisherman.

A young banker helps a 92-year-old patriarch draft a will requiring his heirs to get along or lose their inheritance.