Origin of chess. Inventor asks one wheat-grain for first square, two for the second, four for the third, eight for the fourth, etc. The king cannot pay

Motif

Origin of chess. Inventor asks one wheat-grain for first square, two for the second, four for the third, eight for the fourth, etc. The king cannot pay.

Miscellaneous groups of motifs. · Formulas. · Cumulative tales. · Cumulative tales. · view the constellation · filed as Z21.1

Filed across the traditions

Within the index

1 finer motif beneath it

Carried in tale types