The constellation
N90 Wagers and gambling – miscellaneous
A constellation is one motif’s neighborhood in the record — the story-shapes filed around it, the tale types that carry it, and the texts where it is witnessed, every line a receipted link. Click a motif to travel. Click a text to read it. The entry · wander
● motif
● tale type
● on the shelf
● attested
The same sky, in words
beneath it
filed near
- Ghoulish wager won · N78 entry
- Wager: bullock to defeat elephant. Elephant is frightened and flees · N77 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: 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
- Purchase of box without knowledge of its contents · N91 entry
- Wager to win or lose according to whether jackal howls or ass brays before game is finished · N92 entry
- Father hides wealth to keep son from gambling it away · N94 entry
- Nature of luck and fate · N100 entry