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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

Filed across the traditions
  • Italian Novella *Rotunda
  • West Indies Flowers 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

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