μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Mistress deceives lover with a substitute.

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

Filed across the traditions
  • Icelandic Boberg
  • Russian Andrejev No. 1441*
  • Italian Novella *Rotunda
  • India *Thompson-Balys.
  • general Type 1441*
  • general Toldo Zs. f. Vksk. XIV 47
  • general Boccaccio Decameron VIII No. 4 (Lee 254)
Within the index

Filed under Humiliated or baffled lovers.

5 finer motifs beneath it
Bride escapes from foolish husband and leaves goat as substitute in bed Mistress sends man's own wife as substitute without his knowledge 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
Filed beside it
Vergil in the basket. A lover who is to be pulled up to his mistress's window is left hanging in the basket in the public gaze Lover left standing in snow while his mistress is with another. He later tricks her into standing a whole day in July in a tower naked exposed to the sun and flies Terrorizing the paramour (importunate lover) Hercules spins for his beloved. Is forced to dress as woman and discharge womanly duties including spinning Aristotle and Phyllis: philosopher as riding horse for woman. The philosopher warns the king against uxoriousness. In revenge the queen beguiles the philosopher into letting her ride him on all-fours. The king comes and sees Hidden paramour taken to his own wife. He hides in a chest. The chest is taken by a creditor who unwittingly delivers it to the paramour's wife Tale of the basin. Lover caught on magic basin and left in embarrassing position Importunate lovers led astray Woman tricks importunate lover with the head of a pike. Thereafter he thinks the vagina is toothed Lover given rump to kiss. Sometimes the trick is played by a rival lover. (Chaucer's Miller's Tale) Lover put off by deceptive respite Woman humiliates would-be lover. Knowing that he has deceived another by paying her with gilded coin she answers: "You will have to pay in better coin than is your wont!" Chaste woman refers lover to her husband for permission Lover deceived by false suicide agreement. The woman persuades her lover to jump from a cliff; she will follow. She does not jump Lover humiliated by his impotence King tricked into sleeping with hag
Carried in tale types

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