Lover leaves horse outside house as husband comes up: wife tells husband their cow has foaled a horse

Motif

Lover leaves horse outside house as husband comes up: wife tells husband their cow has foaled a horse.

Deceptions. · Deceptions connected with adultery. · Adulteress outwits husband. · view the constellation · filed as K1549.4

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IndiaThompson-Balys. Cf. English, Scottish: *Child No. 274.

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Woman has paramour steal her husband's clothes. Paramour gains entrance disguised as the husband. The husband without his clothes is driven away from his home Wife surprised in adultery feigns death. Comes "back to life" on hearing husband say he has seen nothing. (Cf. K1538.)Lover carried away on mistress's shoulders so that his footprints will not be visible in the snow Unfaithful wife communicates with lover by pouring milk into stream Wife's attendants on trip chase wrong man as suspected lover and miss real lover Husband deceived as to noise made by hidden paramour Woman cooks food for paramour

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