Vain woman wears corset so tight that it stifles her to death — Mythoi

Motif

Vain woman wears corset so tight that it stifles her to death.

Rewards and punishments. · Deeds punished. · Overweening punished. · view the constellation · filed as Q331.2.1.4

Filed across the traditions

Italian Novella Rotunda.

Within the index

Filed under Woman's vain display punished.

Filed beside it

Devil impersonates woman's maid at her toilette Vain woman has her cheeks miraculously burned. (Cf. Q550.) Husband rubs off paint from wife's cheeks. Threatens to scrape them the next time Clothes-proud woman trips over long skirt. Devil laughs

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