μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

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.

The wise and the foolish. · Fools (and other unwise persons). · Foolish extremes. · Foolish extreme. · view the constellation · filed as J2511.1

Filed across the traditions
  • India *Thompson-Balys.
Within the index

Filed under The silence wager. A man and his wife make a wager as to who shall speak first (close the door). The man (woman) becomes jealous and scolds; loses the wager.

2 finer motifs beneath it
Husband to spite wife plays dead. When she tells neighbors that they may come and take dead man's property he gets up Silence wager: man and wife taken for dead. Stand up when king offers reward for information about their death
Filed beside it
Numskulls make silence wager. Arrested as thieves

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