The husband's good eye treated. The wife pretends to treat his one good eye, so that he cannot see the paramour — Mythoi

Motif

The husband's good eye treated. The wife pretends to treat his one good eye, so that he cannot see the paramour.

Deceptions. · Deceptions connected with adultery. · Adulteress outwits husband. · view the constellation · filed as K1516.1

Filed across the traditions

Spanish Exempla Keller.
general *Chauvin IX 20 Nos. 7, 8
general Alphabet No. 535
general Scala Celi 86b No. 504
general Oesterley No. 122
general Hitopadesa (ed. Morley) 66
general Mensa Philosophica No. 49
general *Krappe Bulletin Hispanique XXXIX 27

Within the index

Filed under The husband's good eye covered. The wife holds a cloth in front of his one good eye, so that he cannot see the paramour.

1 finer motif beneath it

Physician treating man's eye covers his one good eye. Entertains his patient's mistress

Filed beside it

Girl covers nurse's one good eye so that she cannot see her lover Adulteress extinguishes light to hide her paramour Adulteress covers husband's eyes during incantation. Meanwhile paramour escapes Adulteress persuades husband to milk cow with his eyes blindfolded: meets lover. (Cf. Chaucer's Merchant's Tale.) The faithless wife asks her gullible husband how he would act if he were blind. The husband closes his eyes; meanwhile the lover escapes Wife washes husband's hair hiding his eyes while lover escapes unseen Wife has husband look for hole in pot she has bought, allowing lover to escape unseen Wife shows husband her milk-filled breasts and squirts milk in his eyes allowing lover to escape unseen

Carried in tale types

The One-Eyed Husband (previously The Husband's One Good Eye Covered [Treated]) · ATU 1419C 1 recorded variant

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