μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Gullible husbands. (Cf. J2311.0.1., J2311.2, J2311.7, J2312, J2313, J2314, J2315, J2316, J2324, J2331.)

The wise and the foolish. · Fools (and other unwise persons). · Gullible fools. · Gullible fools. · view the constellation · filed as J2301

Filed across the traditions
  • Spanish Exempla Keller
  • India Thompson-Balys.
  • general *Types 1313, 1406
  • general *Liebrecht Zur Volkskunde 124
  • general Bédier Fabliaux 265ff., 475
  • general *Crane Vitry 227 No. 231
  • general *Wesselski Hodscha Nasreddin I 225 No. 66
  • general *BP III 337
  • general *Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 866
  • general Bødker Exempler 280, 296 Nos. 24, 59
  • general Christensen DF XLVII 59
Within the index

Filed under Gullible fools.

3 finer motifs beneath it
Husband takes back faithless wife on her oath to be faithful His wife has become a widow. Numskull buys cloth used only by widows and is therefore convinced Gullible husband removes from wife's garment dust gathered while she lies with another man
Filed beside it
Gullible wives Gullible mother
Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)
Wife makes her husband believe that he is dead. (Cf. J2301.) The "poisoned" pot. The wife tells the husband that a certain pot of preserves is poison. He decides to kill himself and eats the preserves. He believes that he is poisoned and lies down for dead Cold hands and feet for the dead man. His wife has told him that one tells a dead person by his cold hands and feet. He freezes his feet and hands and lies down for dead. Wolves eat his ass. "Lucky for you that his master is dead!" Naked person made to believe that he is clothed Layman made to believe that he is a monk Wife persuades husband that she has returned immediately. She goes to a neighbor's to cook a fish. She is gone a week. She gets a new fish and cooks it and returns home with the hot fish. She convinces her husband of her short absence Husband made to believe that his house has moved during his absence. The wife and her confederates transform the house into an inn with tables, signs, drinkers, etc. The husband cannot find his house Wife persuades her husband to have a good tooth pulled Numskull with unimportant office boasts of it
Carried in tale types

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