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Motif

Husband feigns blindness and avenges himself on his wife and her paramour.

Deceptions. · Deceptions connected with adultery. · Husband outwits adulteress and paramour. · view the constellation · filed as K1553

Filed across the traditions
  • Russian Andrejev No. 1380
  • India *Thompson-Balys.
  • general *Type 1380
  • general *BP III 124
  • general *Taylor MPh XV 227 n. 1
  • general Stiefel Zs. f. Vksk. VIII 74
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Filed under Husband outwits adulteress and paramour.

1 finer motif beneath it
Husband feigns illness to surprise wife with paramour. (Cf. K1514.11.)
Filed beside it
Husband discovers wife's adultery Adulteress detected by food she prepares for paramour Husband returns home secretly and spies on adulteress and lovers The husband sets house afire and ousts hidden paramour Husband carries off box containing hidden paramour. Latter exposed (otherwise discomfited) Old Hildebrand. Hidden cuckold reveals his presence by rhymes. He responds to the rhymes made by the wife and paramour concerning their entertainment Husband discovers wife's adultery by riddling conversation. In this indirect manner the wife confesses and promises reform The husband prepares to castrate the crucifix. The artist's wife's paramour poses as a crucifix when caught. When he sees the husband's preparations, he flees naked The husband meets the paramour in the wife's place. Beats him (or cuts off privates) Husband catches paramour in pitfall. The wife sends her maid to investigate. The maid falls in and finally the wife herself. The husband calls the neighborhood to see them Husband (god) traps wife and paramour with magic armor. (Vulcan, Mars, Venus.) Husband proves intrigue by secretly blacking paramour's mouth. When he returns, his wife's face is black Blades (broken glass) to wound and detect wife's lover. (Often on window.) Cuckolded man shuts wife's paramour in chest and lies on the chest with latter's wife Husband tricks wife into riding a mule which has been denied water. On fording a stream the mule plunges into the water. Wife drowns. (Sometimes also paramour.) Husband in disguise begs food of his wife's suitors
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