Access for seduction gained by removing locks — Mythoi

Motif

Access for seduction gained by removing locks.

Deceptions. · Seduction or deceptive marriage. · Entrance into girl's (man's) room (bed) by trick. · view the constellation · filed as K1349.5

Filed across the traditions

Italian Novella *Rotunda.

Within the index

Filed under Other means of entering into girl's (man's) room (bed).

Filed beside it

Disguise to enter girl's (man's) room. (Cf. K1310–1329, passim.) Trickster gains access to woman's room by pretending he has news of her absent lover Access gained by the aid of rival's mule. Man tries in vain to learn the identity of his friend's mistress. Mounts his friend's mule, which takes him to the secret rendezvous Lover visits guarded maiden while harper puts mother to sleep Lover gets self carried into beloved's house to wait for clean clothes after a purposeful fall in mud Man burns down own neighboring house to gain access to bedroom of beloved Entrance into woman's room through concealed door Trickster pretends to seek lost ball by woman's bed: seduces her Admission to woman's room by means of cap of invisibility

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