Wife takes mistress's place in husband's bed. Brings about reconciliation — Mythoi

Motif

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

Deceptions. · Deception through shams. · Deception by disguise or illusion. · Deception by substitution. · view the constellation · filed as K1843.2

Filed across the traditions

Italian Novella *Rotunda
India Thompson-Balys
Africa (Ekoi) Talbot 183.
general *Penzer I 162
general Boccaccio Decameron III No. 9 (Lee 101)
general Heptameron No. 8
general Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles No. 9

Within the index

Filed under Wife deceives husband with substituted bedmate.

4 finer motifs beneath it

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

Filed beside it

Bride has maid sleep in husband's bed to conceal pregnancy Wife substitutes an old woman for herself in her husband's bed Wife has maidservant impersonate her while she goes to her lover

Carried in tale types

Wife Deceives Husband with Substituted Bedmate · ATU 1379 1 recorded variant

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