Putting the Devil in Hell. Obscene trick used to seduce woman — Mythoi

Motif

Putting the Devil in Hell. Obscene trick used to seduce woman.

Deceptions. · Seduction or deceptive marriage. · Woman persuaded (or wooed) by trick. · view the constellation · filed as K1363.1

Filed across the traditions

Italian Novella *Rotunda.

Within the index

Filed under Seduction of person ignorant of sexual intercourse.

1 finer motif beneath it

Putting the Devil in hand

Filed beside it

Friar adds missing nose (fingers) to unborn child: foetus is imperfect and he will substitute for absent husband. Is praised by the latter on his return

Carried in tale types

Putting the Devil into Hell · ATU 1425 1 recorded variant

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