μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
Scholars’ trail — 5references

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.

  • Irish myth*Cross
  • India*Thompson-Balys
  • ChineseEberhard 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 wagerDaughter as wagerDamsel as wager
Filed beside it
Play for unnamed stakesStakes not claimed by winner, who insists on another gameOwn body as stake: to be taken as slaveLives wageredBodily members wageredHelpful animals lost in wagerWhole kingdom (all property) as wagerLove wagered in game

wander