Silence wager: man and wife taken for dead. Stand up when king offers reward for information about their death

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Silence wager: man and wife taken for dead. Stand up when king offers reward for information about their death.

The wise and the foolish. · Fools (and other unwise persons). · Foolish extremes. · Foolish extreme. · view the constellation · filed as J2511.1.2

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IndiaThompson-Balys.

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Filed under Wager as to who shall rise (speak) first in morning (last up to get reward). They are carried to funeral pyre before they will give in.

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Husband to spite wife plays dead. When she tells neighbors that they may come and take dead man's property he gets up

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