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

Filed across the traditions
  • Italian Novella Rotunda.
  • 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 off Suitor locked in pigsty Suitors one by one enticed into graveyard and left together. They later get revenge 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

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