Whole kingdom (all property) as wager

Motif

Whole kingdom (all property) as wager.

Chance and fate. · Wagers and gambling. · Wagers and gambling. · view the constellation · filed as N2.5

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.

IcelandicBoberg
India*Thompson-Balys
HawaiiBeckwith Myth 429.
general *Fb "spille" III 487b, "konge" II 264b

Within the index

Filed under Extraordinary stakes at gambling.

2 finer motifs beneath it

Right of succession to the throne lost in gambling Half kingdom as wager

Filed beside it

Play for unnamed stakes Stakes not claimed by winner, who insists on another game Own body as stake: to be taken as slave Lives wagered Bodily members wagered Helpful animals lost in wager Wife as wager Love wagered in game

Travels with

Gambler loses everything. (Cf. N2.5.)

wander