Bargains and promises – miscellaneous — Mythoi

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Bargains and promises – miscellaneous.

Ordaining the future. · Bargains and promises. · Bargains and promises – miscellaneous. · view the constellation · filed as M290

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Trickster undertakes impossible bargains and collects his part. Trusts that in the year he is given either he or the other will die Wife undertakes man's penances for him: also to go to heaven for him? He has a dream and when he sees that she also goes to heaven for him he decides against the bargain Covenant: one nation not to wrest city from inhabitants without their consent Divine promise not to destroy sinful city if righteous live there Bargain to keep secret Two men in love agree to have nothing to do with the girl without the other's consent

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