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Motif

Seduction by masking as woman's husband.

Deceptions. · Seduction or deceptive marriage. · Seduction by disguise or substitution. · view the constellation · filed as K1311

Filed across the traditions
  • Italian Novella *Rotunda
  • Jewish Neuman, bin Gorion Born Judas I 364
  • India *Thompson-Balys
  • Indonesia Coster-Wijsman 33 No. 11
  • N. Am. Indian (Klikitat) Jacobs U Wash II 31.
  • general *Penzer II 45 n. 4, III 126f.
  • general Boccaccio Decameron III No. 6 (Lee 79)
  • general Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles No. 30
Within the index

Filed under Seduction by disguise or substitution.

3 finer motifs beneath it
Seduction by masking as woman's husband: "Why – you have just left!" After the seduction the husband comes and the wife shows surprise Trickster kills husband and puts on his skin so as to seduce wife Husband's twin brother mistaken by woman for her husband
Filed beside it
Seduction by wearing coat of invisibility. (Cf. D1361.12.) Seduction by impostor Lover's place in bed usurped by another Trickster shifts married couples in bed. Old man married to young woman and young man married to old woman. The shift is satisfactory to the young couple Seduction by man disguising as woman Girl masked as man wins princess's love Man disguised as gardener enters convent and seduces nuns. (Cf. K1321.4.) Seduction by feigned death. The girl comes to the man's wake or funeral Seduction by feigned illness Seduction by feigned stupidity. Cautious farmer seeks laborer who knows nothing about sex. Trickster makes silly explanation of copulation of animals. When admitted into service, seduces both farmer's wife and daughter Disguise as animal to seduce woman

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