75 motifs match “wager”  ·  back to the chapters

• Grateful bull draws one hundred carts for wager for master. B587.3
• Satan makes wager with God about mortal's piety. G303.9.8.7
• Devil helps journeyman win wager with master. G303.22.8
• Guessing with life as wager. H512
• "Never wager more than a groat": counsel proved wise by experience. Man loses wife on wager. J21.8
• "Do not walk half a mile with a man without asking his name": counsel proved wise by experience. Man runs race unwittingly with his wife's paramour and loses his wife on the wager. (Cf. J21.8.) J21.11
• Man wagers he can run with his head off. Asked what it will profit him, he says that it will profit his family. J322.1
• Drunk philosopher wagers that he can drink the ocean dry. Agrees to do so if the other will hold back streams emptying into the ocean. Agreed to drink only the ocean. J1161.9
• The forehanded servant. A parson boasts that when he asks his maid if certain work is done she always answers that it has been done long ago. A guest wagers that she can be trapped if she is asked whether she has thrown the parson's suit of clothes into the tub of water. She overhears the wager and has the suit in the water before he asks the question. J1614
• The silence wager. A man and his wife make a wager as to who shall speak first (close the door). The man (woman) becomes jealous and scolds; loses the wager. J2511
• Wager as to who shall rise (speak) first in morning (last up to get reward). They are carried to funeral pyre before they will give in. J2511.1
• Silence wager: man and wife taken for dead. Stand up when king offers reward for information about their death. J2511.1.2
• Numskulls make silence wager. Arrested as thieves. J2511.2
• Deceptive drinking contest: rising and falling tide. Buffalo and heron wager as to which can drink the sea until the water falls. The buffalo drinks as the tide is coming in; the heron drinks in the falling tide and wins. K82.1.1
• Deceptive wager. K264
• Deceptive wager: whose horse will jump highest. The trickster has his worthless horse jump out the window. The duke will not let his run the risk. K264.1
• Deceptive wager: cat to carry lantern into room. (Has been specially trained.) K264.2
• Unjust umpire decides a religious dispute. His confederate thus wins an absurd wager. K451.1
• The wager that sheep are hogs. A trickster wagers with a sheep driver that the sheep he is driving are hogs. The next man to overtake them will act as umpire. The trickster's confederate now arrives and declares that they are hogs. K451.2
• Greatest liar to get his supper free. Wager. Each lie is corroborated by a confederate, who poses as a newly arrived stranger. K455.7
• Cut-off finger proves wife's chastity. A chaste wife substitutes a maidservant for seducer. A finger and ring are cut off as proof of wife's unfaithfulness (chastity wager with husband). Refuted by husband, who knows they are not his wife's. K1512.1
• Wives wager as to who can best fool her husband. K1545
• Wagers and gambling. N0
• Lives wagered. N2.2
• Bodily members wagered. N2.3
• Head wagered. N2.3.1
• Hand wagered. To be cut off. N2.3.2
• Hands and feet wagered. N2.3.2.1
• Eyes wagered. N2.3.3
• Nose wagered. N2.3.4
• Intestines wagered. N2.3.5
• Helpful animals lost in wager. N2.4
• Whole kingdom (all property) as wager. N2.5
• Half kingdom as wager. N2.5.2
• Wife as wager. N2.6
• Sister as wager. N2.6.1
• Daughter as wager. N2.6.2
• Damsel as wager. N2.6.3
• Love wagered in game. N2.7
• Devil makes wager with builder of Cologne Cathedral. N4.1
• Wagers and gambling – miscellaneous. N9
• Wagers on wives, husbands, or servants. N10
• Wager on wife's complacency. Though the man has foolishly bargained everything away, she praises him and he wins the wager. N11
• Wager on the most obedient wife. The husband tames his shrewish wife so that he wins the wager. N12
• Wager: raja's daughter will bring servant dinner in field. Merchant ignorant that she is his wife. N12.1
• Husbands wager that they will be able to do what wives tell them to do. One is told to drown himself: loses wager. N13
• Chastity wager. A man makes a wager on his wife's chastity. In spite of unsuccessful attempts to seduce her and of false proofs presented, he wins the wager. N15
• Chastity wager: woman succumbs. N15.1
• Wager on nun's chastity. N15.2
• Wagers on unborn children. N16
• Wager on sex of unborn child. N16.1
• Fathers whose unborn children are affianced wager as to mastery in the house. (Cf. N12.) N16.2
• Wager on truthfulness of servant. The servant is sent to a neighbor's where he is made drunk and is seduced by the neighbor's wife. He tells the master all. N25
• Other wagers. N50
• Wager: who can call three tree names first. The bear names different varieties of the same tree, so that the fox wins the wager. N51
• Wager about tree names: learned and common names. Brahmin gives learned names but servant's common names are confirmed by illiterate peasants. N51.1
• Wager: it is an auspicious day. In spite of all misfortunes wagerer insists that he is right. (Cf. N127.) N53
• Shooting contest on wager. N55
• Loser of shooting wager to go naked into thorns for bird. N55.1
• Wager: woman to turn somersault in middle of public square. It is performed not exactly in the center of the square; hence she loses. N56
• Wager that falsehood is better than truth. Left to unjust umpire, so that falsehood wins. N61
• Wager: more doctors than men of other professions. The trickster feigns toothache. Everyone suggests remedies. He takes down their names as doctors and wins the wager. N63
• Wager: fortune made from capital or from working at vocation. Test: money given to workman is stolen or lost; lead for his work given him is lent to fisherman who rewards him with a fish in which is a diamond. N66
• Wager: woman can be forced to give alms. Trickster announces that only those who have deceived their husbands are exempt. N67
• Wager: to begin sermon with illustration from card-playing. Card-playing parson wins the wager. N71
• Wager on second marvelous object. First object has proved to be ordinary. King induced to make large wager that second is ordinary. He loses. N72
• Wager: whose hunger is it more difficult to appease – that of man or that of beast? When nuts are strewn before master's well-fed guests, they snatch and eat them. Herdsman wins wager. N73
• Wager: to swallow egg with one gulp. Tricksters give numskull egg with chick in it. Fool hears chick peep as he starts to swallow his egg, but he says that the chick peeped too late. N75
• Wager: bullock to defeat elephant. Elephant is frightened and flees. N77
• Ghoulish wager won. N78
• Wagers and gambling – miscellaneous. N90
• Wager to win or lose according to whether jackal howls or ass brays before game is finished. N92
• Woman wagers that she can seduce anchorite. T337
• Wager with overdressed youths that servant can carry a large bucket of water upstairs. They follow and are soaked when the servant purposely spills the dirty water. X32
• Parson preaches so that half the congregation weeps and half laughs. Has clothes torn in the back. Those that see this laugh. He wins the wager. X416