μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 3references

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.

  • IndiaThompson-Balys.
  • general *Types 1535, 1725
  • general *BP II 18
Within the index

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 himTrickster discovers woman's paramour and hides him in outhouse: rewarded by husband
Filed beside it
Trickster discovers adultery: food goes to husband instead of paramourTrickster makes woman believe that her husband is coming to punish her adultery. She confessesTrickster sends his master running after the paramour. Though the master does not know of the adultery, the lover is thoroughly frightenedSecond lover burns paramour at window with hot ironGod Vishnu in shape of nephew scares and torments his aunt's lover
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.)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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