Wife leaves home, offers self to lover. Returning persuades husband that she has not been away — Mythoi

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Wife leaves home, offers self to lover. Returning persuades husband that she has not been away.

The wise and the foolish. · Fools (and other unwise persons). · Gullible fools. · Nature of gullibility. · view the constellation · filed as J2315.1

Filed across the traditions

Irish myth Cross
Italian Novella Rotunda.

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Filed under 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.

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Gullible husb and made to believe he has cut off his wife's nose. She, in another house, has had her nose cut off by mistake. She makes him believe he has done it by making him angry enough to throw a razor at her. When he throws the razor she claims it has cut off her nose

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