μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Within the index

Filed under Pretended virtue.

4 finer motifs beneath it
The bride's (wife's) false modesty. Wears gloves, etc. to bedGirl who is frightened by love becomes insatiableOversensitive bride pleads a headache (or other excuse). Groom retaliates with similar plea when she changes her mindThe oversensitive or hypocritical widow
Filed beside it
Adulteress feigns unusual sensitivenessPretended honesty to mulct victim. Trickster claims to have found a bag of gold. Confederate claims and receives it upon correct identification. Spectator is thus deceived into trusting the trickster with a large sum of moneyFox confesses sins but is immediately ready to steal againHypocritical stepmother weeps as she tells departing husband she will take good care of stepchildren though they beat her (she beats them instead)Hypocrite refuses gifts orally but stretches out his handsPretended piety

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