Wife as wager — Mythoi

Motif

Wife as wager.

Chance and fate. · Wagers and gambling. · Wagers and gambling. · view the constellation · filed as N2.6

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

Middle Eastern The Thousand and One Nights, commonly called, in England, The Arabian Nights' Entertainments , Chapter 12
Middle Eastern The Thousand and One Nights, commonly called, in England, The Arabian Nights' Entertainments , Chapter 22
Anglo-Saxon Beowulf , XXI

Filed across the traditions

Irish myth *Cross
India *Thompson-Balys
Chinese Eberhard FFC CXX 216 No. 165
N. Am. Indian *Thompson Tales 354 n. 276.
general *Fb "spille" III 487b

Within the index

Filed under Extraordinary stakes at gambling.

3 finer motifs beneath it

Sister as wager Daughter as wager Damsel 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 Whole kingdom (all property) as wager Love wagered in game

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