Card-playing parson. The parson plays cards all Saturday night, goes to sleep at church, and calls out the names of the cards

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Card-playing parson. The parson plays cards all Saturday night, goes to sleep at church, and calls out the names of the cards.

Chance and fate. · Wagers and gambling. · Wagers and gambling. · view the constellation · filed as N5

Scholars’ trail — 2references

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.

LithuanianBalys Index No. 1785E*. Cf. Type 1839B.
general Type 1839A

Within the index

Filed under Wagers and gambling.

Filed beside it

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

Carried in tale types

The Clergyman Calls Out Cards · ATU 1839A1 recorded variant

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