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Motif

Bawds. Professional go-betweens.

Sex. · Illicit sexual relations. · Prostitution and concubinage. · view the constellation · filed as T452

Filed across the traditions
  • Spanish Exempla Keller.
  • general *Chauvin VI 17 No. 189 n. 1
  • general Bødker Exempler 280 No. 23
Within the index

Filed under Prostitution and concubinage.

1 finer motif beneath it
Mother acts as procuress of bedmate for her son
Filed beside it
Wife born to be prostitute. Husband unable to change her ways, submits to them Woman disappointed in love threatens to become prostitute Prostitution to avoid starvation Prostitute has favorite lover Devil causes girl to become prostitute. Destroys the girl's family and begets on her a boy Getting advice from a woman in bed Woman sells favors for particular purpose Bed-partner to receive payment from first man she meets in the morning. It so happens: she marries the man and he makes her wealthy Sacred prostitution Woman enjoys the ravishings of the enemy

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