Fox sleeps with tiger's wife by giving her deceptive message from her mate — Mythoi

Motif

Fox sleeps with tiger's wife by giving her deceptive message from her mate.

Deceptions. · Seduction or deceptive marriage. · Woman persuaded (or wooed) by trick. · view the constellation · filed as K1354.2.3

Filed across the traditions

S. Am. Indian (Chiriguano) Métraux RMLP XXXIII 180.

Within the index

Filed under Seduction by bringing false order from husband.

Filed beside it

Trickster asks husband for one thing and the wife for another. The husband's order: "Let him have what he wants." Trickster friar seduces woman under pretence of administering forgotten sacrament. When the woman objects, the husband who thinks the friar is engaging in a legitimate process, orders: "Bear the ordeal in peace."

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