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

Motif

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.

Deceptions. · Seduction or deceptive marriage. · Woman persuaded (or wooed) by trick. · view the constellation · filed as K1363.2

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Scholars’ trail — 3references

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Italian Novella*Rotunda
West IndiesFlowers 538.
general Nouvelles Récréations No. 9

Within the index

Filed under Seduction of person ignorant of sexual intercourse.

Filed beside it

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

Carried in tale types

Friar Adds Missing Nose (fingers) to unborn child · ATU 14241 recorded variant

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