μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Mistress sends man's own wife as substitute without his knowledge.

Deceptions. · Deception into humiliating position. · Humiliated or baffled lovers. · view the constellation · filed as K1223.2

Filed across the traditions
  • Italian Novella Rotunda.
  • general *Gaster Exempla 222 No. 173
Within the index

Filed under Mistress deceives lover with a substitute.

1 finer motif beneath it
Chaste woman sends man's own wife as substitute (without his knowledge). Then the first woman's husband is substituted for the importunate lover, who has his own wife seduced
Filed beside it
Bride escapes from foolish husband and leaves goat as substitute in bed Wife (mistress) substitutes for mistress (wife). The woman has been asked for a rendezvous. She tells the suitor's wife and they exchange places Chaste woman substitutes corpse for herself in the bed of an insistent suitor King's daughter deceives king by substituting her maid

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