Husband rescues wife's paramour. Not knowing lover's identity, husband takes him to his wife and entrusts him to her care. He then leaves on a trip

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Husband rescues wife's paramour. Not knowing lover's identity, husband takes him to his wife and entrusts him to her care. He then leaves on a trip.

Deceptions. · Deceptions connected with adultery. · Adulteress outwits husband. · view the constellation · filed as K1544.1

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Italian Novella*Rotunda.

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Filed under Husband unwittingly instrumental in wife's adultery. (Usually shares his bedmate with others, not knowing that she is his wife.)

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