μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 6references

The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our shelf are live links; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.

  • N. Am. Indian (Zuñi)Boas JAFL XXXV 76.
  • general *Type 901
  • general *Wesselski Märchen 216 No. 24
  • general von der Hagen I lxxxii
  • general *Köhler-Bolte I 137
  • general Shakespeare's "The Taming of the Shrew"
Within the index

Filed under Wagers on wives, husbands, or servants.

1 finer motif beneath it
Wager: raja's daughter will bring servant dinner in field. Merchant ignorant that she is his wife
Filed beside it
Wager on wife's complacency. Though the man has foolishly bargained everything away, she praises him and he wins the wagerHusbands wager that they will be able to do what wives tell them to do. One is told to drown himself: loses wagerChastity wager. A man makes a wager on his wife's chastity. In spite of unsuccessful attempts to seduce her and of false proofs presented, he wins the wagerWagers on unborn childrenWager on truthfulness of servant. The servant is sent to a neighbor's where he is made drunk and is seduced by the neighbor's wife. He tells the master all
Travels with
Fathers whose unborn children are affianced wager as to mastery in the house. (Cf. N12.)
Carried in tale types

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