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Motif

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

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

Filed across the traditions
  • Italian Novella *Rotunda
  • India *Thompson-Balys
  • Japanese Ikeda.
  • general *Type 1535
  • general **A. Stepphun Das Fabel vom Prestre comporté und seine Versionen (Königsberg, 1913)
  • general *BP II 18
  • general *Basset 1001 Contes II 45
  • general *Toldo Zs. f. Vksk. XIII 412, 420
  • general *Wesselski Mönchslatein 10 No. 5
  • general Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles No. 73
Within the index

Filed under Husband outwits adulteress and paramour.

4 finer motifs beneath it
Dying woman lures paramour into chest. Asks husband to bury chest with her Chest containing paramour unwittingly taken away by husband 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"
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 Husband feigns blindness and avenges himself on his wife and her paramour The husband sets house afire and ousts hidden paramour 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
Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)
The animal in the chest. The husband has locked the surprised paramour in a chest while he fetches his family as witness of his wife's unfaithfulness. She frees the lover, substitutes an animal, and discountenances the husband. (Cf. K1542, K1555, K1566, K1574.) Husband frightened by wife's paramour in hog pen. The husband sees the paramour who has hidden in the pen and says, "Who are you?" "I am a miserable hog." The husband thinks that his hogs are possessed. (Cf. K1515, K1555, K1566, K1574.) Trickster as sham magician buys chest containing hidden paramour. (Cf. K1515, K1542, K1555, K1556.)

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