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Filed under Forgotten fiancée reawakens husband's memory.

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Forgotten fiancée reawakens husband's memory by detaining lovers through magic. Heroine takes up residence near home of her forgetful husband. She is apparently going to permit a lover to sleep with her when she detains him by having him try to place some magic birds on their roost. They continue to fall down throughout the night. (Or the lover is left magically sticking to a calf's tail or other object.) The thwarted lover tells of his experience, and in this way the attention of the husband is gainedForgotten fiancée reawakens husband's memory by serving as milkmaid and talking to calfForgotten fiancée reawakens husband's memory by having magic doves converseForgotten fiancée buys place in husband's bed and reawakens his memoryForgotten fiancée attracts attention by magically stopping wedding carriage of new brideForgotten fiancée remembered by means of dollForgotten fiancée remembered by means of birdPiece of wood revives memory. (Cf. D956.)Forgotten wife gives food to beggar: husband's memory reawakened

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