Chest containing paramour unwittingly taken away by husband — Mythoi

Motif

Chest containing paramour unwittingly taken away by husband.

Deceptions. · Deceptions connected with adultery. · Husband outwits adulteress and paramour. · view the constellation · filed as K1555.0.2

Filed across the traditions

Italian Novella Rotunda.

Within the index

Filed under Husband carries off box containing hidden paramour. Latter exposed (otherwise discomfited).

Filed beside it

Dying woman lures paramour into chest. Asks husband to bury chest with her Lover hidden in hen-coop discovered by husband The devil in the barrel. The naked lover hides himself in a sooty barrel. The husband receives from a curious gentleman a good sum of money for showing him the "devil"

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