The constellation
K1210 Humiliated or baffled lovers
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- Vergil in the basket. A lover who is to be pulled up to his mistress's window is left hanging in the basket in the public gaze · K1211 entry
- Lover left standing in snow while his mistress is with another. He later tricks her into standing a whole day in July in a tower naked exposed to the sun and flies · K1212 entry
- Terrorizing the paramour (importunate lover) · K1213 entry
- Hercules spins for his beloved. Is forced to dress as woman and discharge womanly duties including spinning · K1214 entry
- Aristotle and Phyllis: philosopher as riding horse for woman. The philosopher warns the king against uxoriousness. In revenge the queen beguiles the philosopher into letting her ride him on all-fours. The king comes and sees · K1215 entry
- Hidden paramour taken to his own wife. He hides in a chest. The chest is taken by a creditor who unwittingly delivers it to the paramour's wife · K1216 entry
- Tale of the basin. Lover caught on magic basin and left in embarrassing position · K1217 entry
- Importunate lovers led astray · K1218 entry
- Woman tricks importunate lover with the head of a pike. Thereafter he thinks the vagina is toothed · K1222 entry
- Mistress deceives lover with a substitute · K1223 entry
- Lover given rump to kiss. Sometimes the trick is played by a rival lover. (Chaucer's Miller's Tale) · K1225 entry
- Lover put off by deceptive respite · K1227 entry
- Woman humiliates would-be lover. Knowing that he has deceived another by paying her with gilded coin she answers: "You will have to pay in better coin than is your wont!" · K1228 entry
- Chaste woman refers lover to her husband for permission · K1231 entry
- Lover deceived by false suicide agreement. The woman persuades her lover to jump from a cliff; she will follow. She does not jump · K1232 entry
- Lover humiliated by his impotence · K1233 entry
- King tricked into sleeping with hag · K1235 entry
- Disguise as man to escape importunate lover · K1236 entry
- Girl plays at dice with her suitors: locks them up when they are defeated · K1237 entry