Husband returns secretly and kills unwelcome suitor.
Deceptions. · Deceptions connected with adultery. · Husband outwits adulteress and paramour. · view the constellation · filed as K1551.1
Motif
Filed across the traditions
- Icelandic *Boberg
- India Thompson-Balys.
Within the index
Filed under Husband returns home secretly and spies on adulteress and lovers.
Carried in tale types
- The Three Hunchback Brothers Drowned · ATU 1536B 1 recorded variant
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