Second lover burns paramour at window with hot iron

Motif

Second lover burns paramour at window with hot iron.

Deceptions. · Deceptions connected with adultery. · Trickster outwits adulteress and paramour. · view the constellation · filed as K1577

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Scholars’ trail — 4references

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Italian NovellaRotunda. See references for K1225.
general *Type 1361
general Chaucer's Miller's Tale
general *Thompson The Miller's Tale (Bryan and Dempster 106ff.)

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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 Trickster as sham magician buys chest containing hidden paramour. (Cf. K1515, K1542, K1555, K1556.)God Vishnu in shape of nephew scares and torments his aunt's lover

Carried in tale types

The Flood · ATU 13611 recorded variant

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