The Townsman Who Taught the Card Trick, Sør-Aurdal
Oppland · Norway · Site of legend
A stranger taught him to win every hand – but the price was sitting under the table.
Told in Sør-Aurdal in 1927: a merchant lost his horse, sledge and load at a card game until a townsman offered, for ten dalers, to teach him to always win. He won back everything and the ten dalers besides, but when a card finally fell, the Evil One himself sat beneath the table. He stopped at once and never touched a deck of cards again in his life.
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The Townsman Who Taught the Card Trick, Sør-Aurdal is in Oppland, Norway.
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