μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Own body as stake: to be taken as slave.

Chance and fate. · Wagers and gambling. · Wagers and gambling. · view the constellation · filed as N2.1

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“As he lay there and wondered how he could get his property back, he heard some ducks flying over, and, looking up, found to his surprise that he could see the ducks straight through the rock. Then he took his lehal-bones and laid them on top of the rock, and looked to see if they were visible through it, and he found he could see which was the white and which was the black one. Then he was joyful once more, and went home.”

Tales of the North American Indians, Tale 73 · served from our shelf  receiptuncorrected OCR — being verified against the scan

Attested across traditions
Scholars’ trail — 4references

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.

  • Missouri FrenchCarrière
  • India*Thompson-Balys
  • Buddhist mythMalalasekera II 882
  • N. Am. Indian*Thompson Tales 354 n. 277.
Within the index

Filed under Extraordinary stakes at gambling.

Filed beside it
Play for unnamed stakesStakes not claimed by winner, who insists on another gameLives wageredBodily members wageredHelpful animals lost in wagerWhole kingdom (all property) as wagerWife as wagerLove wagered in game
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GamblersExtraordinary stakes at gambling

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