μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

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.

Deceptions. · Deception into humiliating position. · Humiliated or baffled lovers. · view the constellation · filed as K1218.1

Filed across the traditions
  • Lithuanian Balys Index No. 1730A*
  • Russian Andrejev No. 1730 II*
  • India *Thompson-Balys.
  • general *Type 1730
  • general *Penzer I 33ff., 42ff., 160ff.
  • general *Baumgarten Arch. f. rel. Wiss. XXXIV 275 n. 3
  • general Bédier Fabliaux 454ff.
  • general Chauvin VI 12 No. 185
  • general *Wesselski Morlini 315 No. 73
  • general *Cosquin Études 457ff.
  • general Clouston Tales II 289ff.
  • general von der Hagen III *xxix. Icelandic: Boberg
Within the index

Filed under Importunate lovers led astray.

8 finer motifs beneath 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 suitors: the chaste wife has them caught. Forces them to work for her 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
Filed beside it
Suitor locked in pigsty Suitors one by one enticed into graveyard and left together. They later get revenge Suitors as corpse, angel, and devil. First induced to lie in coffin, second to sit up with the "corpse", and the third to carry a firebrand. "Corpse" thinks others are angel and devil. All come to blows Girl asks importunate lover for weapon to use against her father. Instead, she uses it to defend herself against the suitor Importunate lover beaten and sent on street bearing humiliating placard Importunate lover tied to tree Importunate lover beaten with canes filled with straw. He thinks he is severely wounded Obscene tricks are played on repugnant simpleton who wishes to marry Wife takes lover beneath tree where she has told husband to hide. When he begins to kiss her, husband shouts "Keep a little for me." Lover, shamefaced, runs away
Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)
Lover hidden in chest with feathers. Husband believes he is a devil. (Cf. K1218.1.)
Carried in tale types

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