Extraordinary stakes at gambling — Mythoi

Motif

Extraordinary stakes at gambling.

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

Attested across traditions

North American Indigenous Tales of the North American Indians , Tale 73 receipt

Filed across the traditions

Irish myth Cross.

Within the index

Filed under Wagers and gambling.

9 finer motifs beneath 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 Wife as wager Love wagered in game

Filed beside it

Gamblers Supernatural adversary in gambling (witch or giant) Devil as gambler Card-playing parson. The parson plays cards all Saturday night, goes to sleep at church, and calls out the names of the cards Luck in gambling Trained rat upsets pieces in gambling game: trained (or transformed) cat chases it away Gambler's attention distracted by women Wagers and gambling – miscellaneous

Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes

Gamblers Own body as stake: to be taken as slave

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