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Motif

Wife proves her faithfulness. Had substituted for husband's mistress. Proves legitimacy of her child by producing tokens and by child's missing toe (like her husband's four-toed foot).

Sex. · Chastity and celibacy. · Celibacy and continence. · view the constellation · filed as T318

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  • Italian Novella*Rotunda.
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Filed under Celibacy and continence.

Filed beside it
Ceremonial continenceWoman averse to marriage. (Cf. T321.1, T327.3.)Saint's daughter dies when wooedRavished girl's virginity restored by Virgin MaryFather kills daughter lest she become prostituteContinence in marriageThe repression of lust. (Cf. D1356.)

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