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

Motif

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.

Deceptions. · Deception through shams. · Hypocrites. · Pretended virtue. · view the constellation · filed as K2052.4.3

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Italian NovellaRotunda.

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

Carried in tale types

The Soon-Consoled Widow (previously The Loving Wife) · ATU 13501 recorded variant

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