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K1510 Adulteress outwits husband
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- Adulteress kills home-coming husband · K1510.1 entry
- Wife of philanderer gets revenge by having an affair herself · K1510.2 entry
- The husband locked out. An adulteress returns home late at night and her husband refuses to admit her. She threatens to throw herself into the well. The husband goes after her. She enters the house and bars him out · K1511 entry
- The cut-off nose. (Lai of the Tresses.) A woman leaves her husband's bed and has another woman take her place. The husband addresses her, gets no answer and cuts off her nose (hair). In the morning the wife still has her nose (hair). The husband is made to believe that it has grown back by a miracle (or that he was dreaming) · K1512 entry
- The wife's equivocal oath. A husband insists that his wife take oath that she has been intimate with no one but himself. The paramour masks as ass-driver. She hires an ass from him, falls down, and lets him pick her up. She then swears that no one has touched her except her husband and the ass-driver · K1513 entry
- Adulteress gets rid of husband while she entertains lover · K1514 entry
- The animal in the chest. The husband has locked the surprised paramour in a chest while he fetches his family as witness of his wife's unfaithfulness. She frees the lover, substitutes an animal, and discountenances the husband. (Cf. K1542, K1555, K1566, K1574.) · K1515 entry
- The husband's good eye covered. The wife holds a cloth in front of his one good eye, so that he cannot see the paramour · K1516 entry
- Paramour escapes by disguise · K1517 entry
- The enchanted pear tree. The wife makes the husband, who has seen the adultery from the tree, believe that the tree is magic or that he has seen double · K1518 entry
- Paramour successfully hidden from husband · K1521 entry
- Husband in hanging tub to escape coming flood. The priest who has thus duped the husband enjoys the wife · K1522 entry
- Underground passage to paramour's house. (Inclusa.) Woman goes from one to the other. Her husband is made to believe that the woman next door is her sister · K1523 entry
- Adulteress falls in mud at lover's door. She deceives her husband by saying that she must enter and clean her dress · K1524 entry
- The Lord above; the lord below. A husband returning home surprises a woman and her paramour and a numskull who has blundered in. The woman hides the numskull in the bed and the paramour under it. The husband, who is leaving on a journey, lifts his hands to heaven and says, "I commend you to the Lord above." – The numskull: "Commend her rather to the lord below!" · K1525 entry
- Friar's trousers on adulteress's bed: relic to cure sickness. The husband is duped into believing that the friar has come to visit the sick · K1526 entry
- The feigned wedding-feast. The husband returns unexpectedly to find his wife entertaining the paramour with a sumptuous feast. He is made to believe the feast is in honor of some newly-weds · K1527 entry
- Wife confesses to disguised husband. She suspects the fraud and persuades him that she knew the ruse and was testing him. He begs forgiveness · K1528 entry
- Husband transformed to goat must witness wife's adultery. The devil has let him see his wife's unfaithfulness in this way · K1531 entry
- Gullible husband under the bed · K1532 entry
- Gullible husband behind the tree. (Tristan and Isolt.) Husband goes to wife's love tryst and hides behind a tree. The wife, having learned of his presence, tells lover that he should not allow their innocent relations to lead to gossip. Husband is appeased · K1533 entry
- Adulteress transforms her husband into an animal to get rid of him. (The Tsar's Dog.) · K1535 entry
- Woman has husband made monk while he is drunk, so as to get rid of him · K1536 entry
- Death feigned to meet paramour. Meetings in the grave (grave box) · K1538 entry
carried in tale type
- The Returning Husband Hoodwinked · ATU 1419