The constellation
N66 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
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- Other wagers · N50 entry
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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: 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