Devil flees shrewish wife and enters body of a duke. Exorcised by telling him that they are sending for his wife

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Devil flees shrewish wife and enters body of a duke. Exorcised by telling him that they are sending for his wife.

Sex. · Married life. · Characteristics of wives and husbands. · view the constellation · filed as T251.1.1.1

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Filed under Belfagor. The devil frightened by the shrewish wife. A man persuades his shrewish wife to let herself be lowered into a well. When he comes to pull her out he raises a genie (devil) who is glad to escape from the woman. Later he frightens the devil by telling him that his wife has escaped.

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