Day husband: night husband. Woman has two husbands: juggler at home only at night, robber only in day. They do not know about each other. (Similarly, day wife: night wife.) — Mythoi

Motif

Day husband: night husband. Woman has two husbands: juggler at home only at night, robber only in day. They do not know about each other. (Similarly, day wife: night wife.)

Sex. · Illicit sexual relations. · Illicit sexual relations – miscellaneous motifs. · view the constellation · filed as T482

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

Chinese Myths & Legends of China , Chapter X

Cited in the index

general Chauvin V 254 No. 151 n. 1.

Within the index

Filed under Illicit sexual relations – miscellaneous motifs.

Filed beside it

Rape Unknown (clandestine) paramour Incognito mistress. King's mistress secretly becomes hero's without revealing identity Adultery Maidservant given to lover's companion as bed-partner. (Cf. T281.) Fruit-picking time used for sexual promiscuity Man has a son not his wife's; wife has a daughter not her husband's. Children become lovers Queen makes all men who come to serve her copulate with her Black nipples of girl's breasts reveal her loss of virginity

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