μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 2references

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.

  • Italian Novella*Rotunda
  • IndiaThompson-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.

2 finer motifs beneath it
Importunate lover imprisoned and starved: later given choice of lady or food. Chooses foodLover hidden by wife in room made to fall into deep pit of treacle
Filed beside it
The entrapped suitors: the chaste wife tricks them into casks. The husband takes the casks to the marketplace where he opens themThe entrapped suitors: the chaste wife has them caught. Forces them to work for herImportunate lover (priest) is forced to hide in chest. Husband takes the chest to the waiting congregation. Clever priest comes out enacting the resurrection of LazarusImportunate suitor enticed into sack and beaten by husbandPriest 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 priestImportunate suitor has his head shaved and tarred and is put into a sack and returned to his menTo 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

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