μῦθοι Mythoi
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Scholars’ trail — 7references

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.

  • Italian Novella*Rotunda
  • IndiaThompson-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 deathWife takes mistress's place in bed but is deceived in turn. Husband had tired of the mistress and had previously substituted servantWife takes mistress's place in husband's bed. The husband, unaware of the substitution, asks his friends to share his good fortuneWife substitutes for her sodomist husband
Filed beside it
Bride has maid sleep in husband's bed to conceal pregnancyWife substitutes an old woman for herself in her husband's bedWife has maidservant impersonate her while she goes to her lover
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