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Motif

Trickster sends letter ordering bearer detained and meanwhile steals bearer's wife.

Deceptions. · Seduction or deceptive marriage. · Seductions – miscellaneous. · view the constellation · filed as K1388

Filed across the traditions
  • Spanish Boggs FFC XC 150 No. 1850, Keller.
Within the index

Filed under Seductions – miscellaneous.

1 finer motif beneath it
Husband persuaded to dig up a treasure buried in an ant hill. He is poisoned by a snake and his wife taken
Filed beside it
Trickster pretends lameness and is taken on woman's back: violates her Trickster throws corpse into river and accuses princess of murder: marriage to avoid scandal Female overpowered when caught in tree cleft (hole in hedge) Man won over by woman's obscene trick Lecherous trickster seduces women from tree and loses them Long distance sexual intercourse. Trickster by magic has intercourse with woman across stream Trickster and girls play obscene tricks on one another Woman seduces boy by feigning illness (chill, etc.) Man coveting his friend's wife causes her to leave her husband. Friend mutually agree to beat wives. Trickster only pretends to do so while other beats his and angers her Seduction by giving aphrodisiac. Woman tricked into standing naked in stream; medicine put into water Guest at inn is told that there is but one available bed: that of the mistress Lucretia seduced through threat. Sextus says he will kill her and leave a naked slave in her bed to bring dishonor on her house. She yields The trickster with painted member. The father wants his daughter's child to be a bishop Additional seductions

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