μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Chastity 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 wager.

Chance and fate. · Wagers and gambling. · Wagers on wives, husbands, or servants. · view the constellation · filed as N15

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Scholars’ trail — 13references

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  • WelshMacCulloch Celtic 110
  • EnglandBaughman
  • Italian Novella*Rotunda
  • Jewishbin Gorion Born Judas 2d ed. I 276ff., III 109, 304
  • India*Thompson-Balys
  • PhilippineFansler MAFLS XII 62, 253ff.
  • general *Type 882
  • general *Köhler-Bolte I 211f., 375, 581
  • general **G. Paris Romania XXXII 481ff.
  • general *von der Hagen III lxxxiii
  • general Boccaccio Decameron II No. 9 (Lee 42)
  • general Shakespeare's "Cymbeline"
  • general *Child V 500 s. v. "wager". Irish myth: Cross
Within the index

Filed under Wagers on wives, husbands, or servants.

2 finer motifs beneath it
Chastity wager: woman succumbsWager on nun's chastity
Filed beside it
Wager on wife's complacency. Though the man has foolishly bargained everything away, she praises him and he wins the wagerWager on the most obedient wife. The husband tames his shrewish wife so that 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 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
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