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K1555 Husband carries off box containing hidden paramour. Latter exposed (otherwise discomfited)
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- Dying woman lures paramour into chest. Asks husband to bury chest with her · K1555.0.1 entry
- Chest containing paramour unwittingly taken away by husband · K1555.0.2 entry
- Lover hidden in hen-coop discovered by husband · K1555.1 entry
- The devil in the barrel. The naked lover hides himself in a sooty barrel. The husband receives from a curious gentleman a good sum of money for showing him the "devil" · K1555.2 entry
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- 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
- Husband frightened by wife's paramour in hog pen. The husband sees the paramour who has hidden in the pen and says, "Who are you?" "I am a miserable hog." The husband thinks that his hogs are possessed. (Cf. K1515, K1555, K1566, K1574.) · K1542 entry
- Trickster as sham magician buys chest containing hidden paramour. (Cf. K1515, K1542, K1555, K1556.) · K1574 entry