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

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

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Italian NovellaRotunda.

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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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