Trickster as sham magician buys chest containing hidden paramour. (Cf. K1515, K1542, K1555, K1556.) — Mythoi

Motif

Trickster as sham magician buys chest containing hidden paramour. (Cf. K1515, K1542, K1555, K1556.)

Deceptions. · Deceptions connected with adultery. · Trickster outwits adulteress and paramour. · view the constellation · filed as K1574

Filed across the traditions

India Thompson-Balys.
general *Types 1535, 1725
general *BP II 18

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Filed under Trickster outwits adulteress and paramour.

2 finer motifs beneath it

Sham magician has paramour fall in a trap. Has trained bird to cling to him Trickster discovers woman's paramour and hides him in outhouse: rewarded by husband

Filed beside it

Trickster discovers adultery: food goes to husband instead of paramour 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 Second lover burns paramour at window with hot iron God Vishnu in shape of nephew scares and torments his aunt's lover

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.) Husband carries off box containing hidden paramour. Latter exposed (otherwise discomfited) Old Hildebrand. Hidden cuckold reveals his presence by rhymes. He responds to the rhymes made by the wife and paramour concerning their entertainment

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