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Motif

Husband hides in curtain to catch paramour. On entering, paramour threatens to kill husband if he should appear.

Deceptions. · Deceptions connected with adultery. · Adulteress outwits husband. · view the constellation · filed as K1514.4.2

Cited in the index
  • general Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles No. 4.
Within the index

Filed under Returning husband beaten by servants. Mistaken for lover whom he has told them to beat.

1 finer motif beneath it
Cuckold husband hides under bed
Filed beside it
Husband beaten by paramour. Husband, dressed in wife's clothing, is beaten by forewarned paramour. The latter says that he is testing the wife's fidelity to her husband

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