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 — 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

Filed across the traditions

Welsh MacCulloch Celtic 110
England Baughman
Italian Novella *Rotunda
Jewish bin Gorion Born Judas 2d ed. I 276ff., III 109, 304
India *Thompson-Balys
Philippine Fansler 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 succumbs Wager 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 wager Wager on the most obedient wife. The husband tames his shrewish wife so that he wins the wager Husbands wager that they will be able to do what wives tell them to do. One is told to drown himself: loses wager Wagers on unborn children Wager 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

Carried in tale types

The Wager on the Wife's Chastity · ATU 882 1 recorded variant

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