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J1545 Wife outwits her husband
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- Will work when beaten. A wife whose husband has beaten her sends a rumor to the sick king that her husband is a skilled physician but will practice only when he is well beaten. He is seized and whipped · J1545.1 entry
- Four men's mistress. A husband disguises as a priest to hear his wife's confession. She says that she has been mistress of a servant, a knight, a fool, and a priest; i.e., her husband when he was her servant, and later her knight. He had then been a fool for demanding her confession, and was a priest because he had heard it · J1545.2 entry
- Fault-finding husband nonplussed. The wife has cooked so many dishes that when he complains, she can always supply another. Finally he says, "I had rather eat dung." She produces some · J1545.3 entry
- The exiled wife's dearest possession. A wife driven from home is allowed by her husband to take her one dearest possession. She takes her sleeping husband and effects reconciliation · J1545.4 entry
- Husband tells wife in indecent posture to "lock up shop". She retorts that he has the key · J1545.5 entry
- Wife by cleverness wins back fortune overbearing husband has foolishly lost and humbles him · J1545.6 entry
- Clever laughter and response of wife stops husband from fondling maid · J1545.7 entry
- Corpse to be cut in two for easy carrying. Husband who feigns death hears wife propose this. He upbraids her; she replies: "If you had really died I should have given myself up to be burnt." · J1545.8 entry
- Wife shows deep water. Husband declares that he will drown himself. The wife shows him a deep spot in the stream · J1545.9 entry