μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

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".

Deceptions. · Deceptions connected with adultery. · Husband outwits adulteress and paramour. · view the constellation · filed as K1555.2

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Scholars’ trail — 2references

The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our shelf are live links; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.

  • LithuanianBalys Index No. 2900*
  • CheremisSebeok-Nyerges.
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 herChest containing paramour unwittingly taken away by husbandLover hidden in hen-coop discovered by husband
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