Anyone remembers the faceless from "spirited away"? Its a daemon that lures people with an offer of gold, and when they get closer to take some, they get eaten. The protagonist breaks that daemon by refusing the offer with "I don't need it".
The aunt from Grave of the Fireflies who convinces the kid to sell his parents' stuff for food money and then complains he did nothing to deserve the food she made was a piece of work though.