μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 10references

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.

  • Italian Novella*Rotunda
  • India*Thompson-Balys
  • JapaneseIkeda.
  • 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 herChest containing paramour unwittingly taken away by husbandLover hidden in hen-coop discovered by husbandThe 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 adulteryAdulteress detected by food she prepares for paramourHusband returns home secretly and spies on adulteress and loversHusband feigns blindness and avenges himself on his wife and her paramourThe husband sets house afire and ousts hidden paramourOld Hildebrand. Hidden cuckold reveals his presence by rhymes. He responds to the rhymes made by the wife and paramour concerning their entertainmentHusband discovers wife's adultery by riddling conversation. In this indirect manner the wife confesses and promises reformThe 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 nakedThe 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 themHusband (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 blackBlades (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 wifeHusband 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
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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