Trickster discovers adultery: food goes to husband instead of paramour — Mythoi

Motif

Trickster discovers adultery: food goes to husband instead of paramour.

Deceptions. · Deceptions connected with adultery. · Trickster outwits adulteress and paramour. · view the constellation · filed as K1571

Filed across the traditions

Lithuanian Balys Index No. 1360A*, 2901*, 2902*
Rumanian Schullerus FFC LXXVIII No. 1380 VIII*
Russian Andrejev 1360A*, 1730 IV
India *Thompson-Balys.
general *Types 1535, 1725
general *BP II 18
general von der Hagen III *xxix
general Wesselski Märchen 216 No. 27

Within the index

Filed under Trickster outwits adulteress and paramour.

2 finer motifs beneath it

Trickster discovers adultery: gets food prepared for paramour Trickster as sham magician makes adulteress produce hidden food for her husband

Filed beside it

Trickster makes woman believe that her husband is coming to punish her adultery. She confesses Trickster sends his master running after the paramour. Though the master does not know of the adultery, the lover is thoroughly frightened Trickster as sham magician buys chest containing hidden paramour. (Cf. K1515, K1542, K1555, K1556.) Second lover burns paramour at window with hot iron God Vishnu in shape of nephew scares and torments his aunt's lover

Carried in tale types

The Lover Discovered (previously The Foolish Parson in the Trunk) · ATU 1725 1 recorded variant

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