Wagers on unborn children.
Chance and fate. · Wagers and gambling. · Wagers on wives, husbands, or servants. · view the constellation · filed as N16
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Filed under Wagers on wives, husbands, or servants.
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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 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 wagerWager 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