Lover given rump to kiss. Sometimes the trick is played by a rival lover. (Chaucer's Miller's Tale)

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Lover given rump to kiss. Sometimes the trick is played by a rival lover. (Chaucer's Miller's Tale).

Deceptions. · Deception into humiliating position. · Humiliated or baffled lovers. · view the constellation · filed as K1225

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Scholars’ trail — 6references

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Italian NovellaRotunda.
general *Type 1361
general *F. N. Robinson Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer (Boston, 1933) 786b
general *Bolte Frey 251 No. 89
general *Barnouw "The Millers Tale van Chaucer" Handlingen van het 6. nederlandsche Philologencongres, 1910
general *Thompson The Miller's Tale (Bryan and Dempster 106ff.)

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Filed under Humiliated or baffled lovers.

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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 Mistress deceives lover with a substitute 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

The Flood · ATU 13611 recorded variant
The Blind Fianc'e · ATU 14561 recorded variant

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