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

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

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Scholars’ trail — 11references

The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our shelf are live links; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.

Spanish ExemplaKeller
IndiaThompson-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

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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

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Gullible wives Gullible mother

Travels with

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

The Three Clever Wives Wager (previously The Merry Wives' Wager) · ATU 14061 recorded variant

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