Wife takes mistress's place in husband's bed: husband sends message of death

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Wife takes mistress's place in husband's bed: husband sends message of death.

Deceptions. · Deception through shams. · Deception by disguise or illusion. · Deception by substitution. · view the constellation · filed as K1843.2.1

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Italian Novella Rotunda.

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Filed under Wife takes mistress's place in husband's bed. Brings about reconciliation.

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Wife takes mistress's place in bed but is deceived in turn. Husband had tired of the mistress and had previously substituted servant Wife takes mistress's place in husband's bed. The husband, unaware of the substitution, asks his friends to share his good fortune Wife substitutes for her sodomist husband

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