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Motif

Husband rubs off paint from wife's cheeks. Threatens to scrape them the next time.

Rewards and punishments. · Deeds punished. · Overweening punished. · view the constellation · filed as Q331.2.1.3

Filed across the traditions
  • Italian Novella Rotunda.
Within the index

Filed under Woman's vain display punished.

1 finer motif beneath it
Husband puts soot on wife's cheeks to discourage her from using paint
Filed beside it
Devil impersonates woman's maid at her toilette Vain woman has her cheeks miraculously burned. (Cf. Q550.) Vain woman wears corset so tight that it stifles her to death Clothes-proud woman trips over long skirt. Devil laughs

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