μῦθοι Mythoi
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  • general Wesselski Hodscha Nasreddin I 254 No. 173.
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Filed under Clever decisions concerning kissing and rape.

1 finer motif beneath it
Man breaks promise to sleep chastely with woman. Decision: deceived fiance is to sleep with seducer's wife, if he ever marries
Filed beside it
Youth in court for kissing prince's daughter pleads his love for her. Prince allows plea: "If we kill those who love us, what shall we do to those who hate us?"The girl screams when she is robbed. Accuses young man of raping her. When he tries to rob her of money she summons help. Decision: if she had shouted as loud before, the man could not have raped her. Youth acquittedGirls must pay for young man's virginity. Girls repulsed by man climb in his window at night. Become pregnant and demand marriage. Branded as prostitutes and must pay the manMan's torn garment as proof of his innocence of rape. If he were the assaulter, the torn garment would be woman's

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