Woman's vain display punished — Mythoi

Motif

Woman's vain display punished.

Rewards and punishments. · Deeds punished. · Overweening punished. · view the constellation · filed as Q331.2.1

Filed across the traditions

Italian Novella *Rotunda.

Within the index

Filed under Vanity punished.

5 finer motifs beneath 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 Vain woman wears corset so tight that it stifles her to death Clothes-proud woman trips over long skirt. Devil laughs

Filed beside it

Jackal demands to be praised as god: runs with pack of hounds

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