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K1544 Husband unwittingly instrumental in wife's adultery. (Usually shares his bedmate with others, not knowing that she is his wife.)
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- Adulteress outwits husband · K1510 entry
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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