The constellation
T400 Illicit sexual relations
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- Message of chastity: uncooked meat left behind. Man conducting a woman leaves uncooked meat behind each night of the journey as a sign to the husband following that she has not been touched · T386 entry
- Other futile attempts to keep wife chaste · T383 entry
- Attempt to keep wife chaste by carrying her in box. In spite of all precautions she meets men · T382 entry
- [First Edition: T381.2. Guardians of imprisoned virgin put to sleep while man enters to her.] · T381.2[1st ed.] entry
- Virgin Mary as protectress of illicit lovers · T401 entry
- Pregnant abbess secretly delivered of her child by Virgin Mary · T401.1 entry
- Incest · T410 entry
- Master discovers that slave girl he wants to marry is a near relative · T410.1 entry