μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

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.

Deceptions. · Deception into humiliating position. · Humiliated or baffled lovers. · view the constellation · filed as K1218.4

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Scholars’ trail — 3references

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 NovellaRotunda.
  • general *Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 220
  • general Boccaccio Decameron IX No. 1 (Lee 271)
Within the index

Filed under Importunate lovers led astray.

1 finer motif beneath it
Three women humiliate importunate lover. First has him hide on thorns, second has him fall into a hole, third has him fall asleep in the street. In revenge he shows them naked, except for face, to his friends. (Cf. K1213.1.)
Filed beside it
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 offSuitor locked in pigstySuitors one by one enticed into graveyard and left together. They later get revengeGirl asks importunate lover for weapon to use against her father. Instead, she uses it to defend herself against the suitorImportunate lover beaten and sent on street bearing humiliating placardImportunate lover tied to treeImportunate lover beaten with canes filled with straw. He thinks he is severely woundedObscene tricks are played on repugnant simpleton who wishes to marryWife 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

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