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 NovellaRotunda.
  • 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 bedWife (mistress) substitutes for mistress (wife). The woman has been asked for a rendezvous. She tells the suitor's wife and they exchange placesChaste woman substitutes corpse for herself in the bed of an insistent suitorKing's daughter deceives king by substituting her maid

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