Wanted: a husband to manage estate. Widow who claims to abhor intimacy rejects a eunuch with business qualifications — Mythoi

Motif

Wanted: a husband to manage estate. Widow who claims to abhor intimacy rejects a eunuch with business qualifications.

Deceptions. · Deception through shams. · Hypocrites. · Pretended virtue. · view the constellation · filed as K2052.4.2

Filed across the traditions

Italian Novella *Rotunda.

Within the index

Filed under The oversensitive or hypocritical widow.

Filed beside it

Doctor prescribes sexual intimacy for widow's ills. She claims to prefer death. Change of heart on daughters' plea. Daughters adopt treatment as a preventive Overlooking the insult. Man consoles daughter whose husband is dying by telling her he has picked another husband for her. She feels insulted. No sooner does her husband die than she asks her father for details

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