Devil as gambler

Motif

Devil as gambler.

Chance and fate. · Wagers and gambling. · Wagers and gambling. · view the constellation · filed as N4

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

Depth CommentaryPrimitive Culture: Researches into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Language, Art, and Custom, Chapter III

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.

IrishO'Suilleabhain 33, 36, Beal XXI 311, 313
Missouri FrenchCarrière.
general Fb "kort" II 279a, "klör" II 204
general Alphabet No. 450
general Scala Celi 110b, 111a Nos. 615, 616

Within the index

Filed under Wagers and gambling.

3 finer motifs beneath it

Devil cheated at card playing Devil makes wager with builder of Cologne Cathedral Playing game of chance (or skill) with uncanny being

Filed beside it

Gamblers Extraordinary stakes at gambling Supernatural adversary in gambling (witch or giant)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

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