μῦθοι Mythoi
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Scholars’ trail — 2references

The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our shelf are live links; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.

  • general J. Prinz "A Tale of a Prioress and her Three Wooers" Literar.-Hist. Forschungen XLVII (Berlin, 1912) 65ff., 113ff.
  • general Hilka Compilatio Singularis Exemplorum No. 14.
Within the index

Filed under Paramour escapes by disguise.

1 finer motif beneath it
Paramour falls in cesspool. Husband thinks he is a demon
Filed beside it
The lovers as pursuer and fugitive. The wife is visited by two gallants. When the husband approaches, one goes out with drawn sword; the other hides in the house. She convinces her husband that she has given refuge to a fugitiveParamour poses as doctorParamour in vat: disguise as vat-buyer. Husband thinks he is testing the vatParamour poses as unsuccessful suitor. When surprised with the wife he tells the husband that he has been trying to force the woman, with no success. The wife supports the statementParamour escapes disguised as monkParamour disguised as pregnant womanParamour poses as robberParamour disguised as cloth merchant is surprised by the husband. He asks the woman to be paid for a pretended saleParamour leaving love-tryst is met by husband. Pretends he had come to see him on businessParamour escapes by pretending to be returning borrowed basketEscaping paramour said to be a deity
Travels with
The entrapped suitors. (Lai l'épervier.) The chaste wife has them one at a time undress and hide. The husband and guests come and chase them off

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