The constellation
N50 Other wagers
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- Wager: who can call three tree names first. The bear names different varieties of the same tree, so that the fox wins the wager · N51 entry
- Wager: it is an auspicious day. In spite of all misfortunes wagerer insists that he is right. (Cf. N127.) · N53 entry
- Shooting contest on wager · N55 entry
- Wager: woman to turn somersault in middle of public square. It is performed not exactly in the center of the square; hence she loses · N56 entry
- Wager that falsehood is better than truth. Left to unjust umpire, so that falsehood wins · N61 entry
- Wager: more doctors than men of other professions. The trickster feigns toothache. Everyone suggests remedies. He takes down their names as doctors and wins the wager · N63 entry
- Wager: fortune made from capital or from working at vocation. Test: money given to workman is stolen or lost; lead for his work given him is lent to fisherman who rewards him with a fish in which is a diamond · N66 entry
- Wager: woman can be forced to give alms. Trickster announces that only those who have deceived their husbands are exempt · N67 entry
- Wager: to begin sermon with illustration from card-playing. Card-playing parson wins the wager · N71 entry
- Wager on second marvelous object. First object has proved to be ordinary. King induced to make large wager that second is ordinary. He loses · N72 entry
- Wager: whose hunger is it more difficult to appease – that of man or that of beast? When nuts are strewn before master's well-fed guests, they snatch and eat them. Herdsman wins wager · N73 entry
- Wager: to swallow egg with one gulp. Tricksters give numskull egg with chick in it. Fool hears chick peep as he starts to swallow his egg, but he says that the chick peeped too late · N75 entry
- Wager: bullock to defeat elephant. Elephant is frightened and flees · N77 entry
- Ghoulish wager won · N78 entry