The constellation
K1213 Terrorizing the paramour (importunate lover)
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filed under
- Humiliated or baffled lovers · K1210 entry
beneath it
- Woman dares husband to try his sword on pile of clothing which hides her paramour. Stops him just in time. Later the paramour entices her to come to him. Exposes her naked, except for face, to his friends · K1213.1 entry
- Prostitute frightens lover with cries of "Thief!" Gets his money · K1213.2 entry
filed beside
- 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
- 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