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Motif

The weeping bitch. A procuress throws pepper into the eyes of a bitch so that she weeps. She pretends to the virtuous woman that the bitch is a woman transformed because of failure to respond to her lover. The woman is persuaded.

Deceptions. · Seduction or deceptive marriage. · Woman persuaded (or wooed) by trick. · view the constellation · filed as K1351

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Scholars’ trail — 14references

The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our shelf are live links; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.

  • Spanish ExemplaKeller.
  • general *Type 1515
  • general *Chauvin VIII 45 No. 13
  • general *Oesterley No. 28
  • general *Crane Vitry 239 No. 251
  • general Elsner Untersuchungen zu den mittelenglischen Fabliau "Dame Siriz"
  • general Fb "hund" IV 227b
  • general *von der Hagen I cxii
  • general Scala Celi 87a No. 510
  • general *Penzer I 169
  • general *Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 873
  • general Alphabet No. 537
  • general Hdwb. d. Märchens I 95a

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Filed under Woman persuaded (or wooed) by trick.

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Death feigned to woo maiden. She shows remorse when she hears of lover's deathWoman deceived into sacrificing honor. Ruler promises to release her brother (husband) but afterward refuses to do soSeduction by bearing false order from husband or fatherAltered letter of execution gives princess to hero. On his way robbers steal the letter and change it so that instead of being killed he is married to the princessLover's gift regained. The husband appears before payment can be made to wifeGirl shows herself naked in return for youth's dancing hogsBeggar buys right to sleep before the girl's door, at foot of bed, in the bed. Usually with jewelInnocent girl sells her "love" and later receives it back. When she tells her mother what has happened, she is beaten. Thinking to right matters, she demands that the knight return what he has taken. (Sequel: K1275.)Seduction of person ignorant of sexual intercourseWoman abducted by giving her medicine which appears to have killed herSecond daughter won by representing first as deadMonk persuades a father to set daughter afloat in box: monk seduces herSeduction by making woman jealous of co-wifeBride-stealingWoman engaged to marry by trick. (Cf. K1371.2, K1377, K1771.9.)Seduction by alleged vision promising woman to man
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