Lover gets into maiden's room by means of a ladder

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Lover gets into maiden's room by means of a ladder.

Deceptions. · Seduction or deceptive marriage. · Entrance into girl's (man's) room (bed) by trick. · view the constellation · filed as K1348

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Italian Novella*Rotunda.

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Entrance to woman's room in hollow artificial animal Entrance into woman's (man's) room by hiding in chest Man drawn up into female apartments on rope Tunnel entrance to guarded maiden's chamber Tale of the cradle. Two youths pass the night with a family where all sleep in a common room, with a cradle at the foot of one of the beds. The moving of the cradle in the night confuses those walking about so that the strangers sleep with the wife and the daughter Hero flies to maiden's room. Enters her tower by means of artificial wings (or on flying horse)Man is ushered into maiden's room by maidservant. He then takes the latter's place in the mistress's bed Other means of entering into girl's (man's) room (bed)

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