The entrapped suitors: the chaste wife has them caught. Forces them to work for her — Mythoi

Motif

The entrapped suitors: the chaste wife has them caught. Forces them to work for her.

Deceptions. · Deception into humiliating position. · Humiliated or baffled lovers. · view the constellation · filed as K1218.1.2

Filed across the traditions

Italian Novella Rotunda
India Thompson-Balys.

Within the index

Filed under The entrapped suitors. (Lai l'épervier.) The chaste wife has them one at a time undress and hide. The husband and guests come and chase them off.

Filed beside it

The entrapped suitors: the chaste wife tricks them into casks. The husband takes the casks to the marketplace where he opens them The entrapped suitor: tricked into room where he is left to himself Importunate lover (priest) is forced to hide in chest. Husband takes the chest to the waiting congregation. Clever priest comes out enacting the resurrection of Lazarus Importunate suitor enticed into sack and beaten by husband Priest caught in lasso by rival lover. Mistress tells knight of priest's demands. Knight has her give assignation, and arranges around her a string lasso which he pulls, and catches priest Importunate suitor has his head shaved and tarred and is put into a sack and returned to his men To get "nothing" and to show it. Wife pushes lecherous king first into glue and then in the closet with feathers. That is "nothing" – neither bird nor man

Carried in tale types

Suitors at the Spinning Wheel · ATU 882A* 1 recorded variant

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