μῦθοι Mythoi
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  • Italian NovellaRotunda.
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Filed under Nature of gullibility.

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Person made to believe that he is deadNaked person made to believe that he is clothedLayman made to believe that he is a monkWife 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 absenceHusband 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 houseWell man made to believe that he is sickNumskull convinced that he is a thief. An article is stolen. Declared that whoever does not eat all his cheese is the thief. A stone is put in the numskull's cheese so that he cannot eat it all. He admits the theftMan made to believe that he is pregnant (has borne child)Drunken man made to believe that he has been to heaven and hell. He is dressed up as a rich lord and given rich food and drink. When put back into his own clothes he thinks that he has been to heavenNumskull believes that he is married to a man. Two men's hands joined in fun with words "I marry you." Fool thinks that he must get a bishop to annul the marriageWife persuades her husband to have a good tooth pulledHusband made to believe that yarn has changed to tow through his carelessness. Thus his lazy wife is relieved from spinningThe student from paradise. A student tells a woman that he comes from Paris. She understands him to say from paradise and gives him money and goods to take to her husbandMan who asks for good weather given a box full of hornets. He thinks that it is filled with the weatherThe moving church tower. To see whether the church is moving someone lays down his coat in front of it. It is stolen. They think that the church has passed over itNumskull with unimportant office boasts of it

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