176 motifs match “paramour” — showing the first 100; narrow the words for the rest  ·  back to the chapters

• Treasure-producing bird killed to please a paramour. B192.3
• Animal paramour. B610
• Beast paramour. (Cf. B601.) B611
• Bear paramour. (Cf. B601.1., B631, B635.) B611.1
• Dog paramour. (Cf. B601.2, B642.) B611.2
• Horse paramour. B611.3
• Sea-horse paramour. B611.3.1
• Lake-horse paramour. B611.3.2
• Bull paramour. B611.4
• Deer paramour. B611.5
• Monkey paramour. B611.6
• Rat paramour. B611.7
• Tapir paramour. B611.8
• Fish paramour. (Cf. B603.) B612
• Eel paramour. B612.1
• Dolphin as paramour. B612.2
• Reptile paramour. (Cf. B604.) B613
• Snake paramour. (Cf. B604.1.) B613.1
• Snake woman as paramour. B613.1.1
• Crocodile paramour. B613.2
• Lizard paramour. B613.3
• Bird paramour. B614
• Clever woman and devil as paramour. Devil betrays means by which he can be driven out. D1386.2.1
• Fairy offers gifts to man to be her paramour. F302.3.2
• Magician carries mistress with him in his body. She in turn has paramour in hers. F1034.2
• Tasks assigned at suggestion of wife and paramour. H916.3
• Tests imposed on woman by prospective paramour. H939.2
• "Do not act when angry": counsel proved wise by experience. Man returns home and sees someone sleeping with his wife. Though he thinks it is a paramour, he restrains himself and finds that it is a newborn son. J21.2
• "Do not walk half a mile with a man without asking his name": counsel proved wise by experience. Man runs race unwittingly with his wife's paramour and loses his wife on the wager. (Cf. J21.8.) J21.11
• Take money instead of revenge. Fool advises uncle, in letter which he did not send, to take money from wife's paramour instead of revenge. J229.11
• Paramour who insists on quarreling with mistress about escape caught by her husband. He finds the escape different from that which had been described to him. J581.2
• "But by a fine fellow!" Dying toad thus comforts his paramour, the frog, whom he is leaving neither married nor widow nor maiden and pregnant. J865.1
• Wife makes husband believe that her paramour is Death. J2349.2
• Cornered paramour threatens the husband. Admits guilt. Husband: "Had you denied it I would have killed you!" J2626.1
• Thieves steal chest containing hidden paramour. Are frightened away by his outcry. K335.1.6.1
• Thief steals belongings of his wife's paramour while the latter is calling on her. K341.14
• Theft by wife's paramour. Wife tells him secret of buried money. K365.3
• Hidden paramour buys freedom from discoverer. K443.1
• Abbot escapes from his paramour's husband in disguise of priest. K521.6
• Woman puts figures of paramour and herself in bed. Husband attacks them. Woman uses it as a lesson to "reform" husband. K525.1.1
• Paramour unwittingly drinks sleeping potion. Is thought dead and placed in a chest. Chest is stolen. When he escapes he is accused of being a robber. He is saved by his mistress's maid who explains all, transferring the role played by her mistress to herself. K675.1
• Terrorizing the paramour (importunate lover). K1213
• Woman dares husband to try his sword on pile of clothing which hides her paramour. Stops him just in time. Later the paramour entices her to come to him. Exposes her naked, except for face, to his friends. K1213.1
• Adulteress frightens paramour with cries of "Rape!" Then she removes her husband's suspicion by feigning a fit. Later the paramour tricks her to his room and shows her naked, except for face, to her husband. K1213.1.1
• Hidden paramour taken to his own wife. He hides in a chest. The chest is taken by a creditor who unwittingly delivers it to the paramour's wife. K1216
• Leper intercepts letter and takes paramour's place with princess. K1317.2
• Vengeful paramours send syphilitic man to substitute in woman's bed. K1317.3
• Cuckold feigns to be asleep when paramour calls. K1501.2
• The wife's equivocal oath. A husband insists that his wife take oath that she has been intimate with no one but himself. The paramour masks as ass-driver. She hires an ass from him, falls down, and lets him pick her up. She then swears that no one has touched her except her husband and the ass-driver. K1513
• Husband beaten by paramour. Husband, dressed in wife's clothing, is beaten by forewarned paramour. The latter says that he is testing the wife's fidelity to her husband. K1514.4.1
• Husband hides in curtain to catch paramour. On entering, paramour threatens to kill husband if he should appear. K1514.4.2
• Husband hides in chest to catch paramour. (Cf. K1566.) K1514.5
• Adulteress sets husband to watch for intruder while she entertains the paramour. K1514.10
• Illness feigned to call physician paramour. K1514.11
• Adulteress pretends to go to say her prayers. Keeps tryst with paramour. K1514.12
• Adulteress gives paramour tryst in house of ill-fame. Meets husband who leaves in shame. K1514.13
• Paramour unties mare. Husband chases mare while the wife entertains the paramour. K1514.14
• Adulteress throws small coffer out of window. While the husband retrieves it the paramour changes hiding places. K1514.15
• Wife drugs husband and visits paramour. K1514.17.1
• The animal in the chest. The husband has locked the surprised paramour in a chest while he fetches his family as witness of his wife's unfaithfulness. She frees the lover, substitutes an animal, and discountenances the husband. (Cf. K1542, K1555, K1566, K1574.) K1515
• The husband's good eye covered. The wife holds a cloth in front of his one good eye, so that he cannot see the paramour. K1516
• The husband's good eye treated. The wife pretends to treat his one good eye, so that he cannot see the paramour. K1516.1
• Adulteress extinguishes light to hide her paramour. K1516.3
• Adulteress covers husband's eyes during incantation. Meanwhile paramour escapes. K1516.4
• Paramour escapes by disguise. K1517
• Paramour poses as doctor. K1517.2
• Paramour in vat: disguise as vat-buyer. Husband thinks he is testing the vat. K1517.3
• Paramour falls in cesspool. Husband thinks he is a demon. K1517.4.1
• Paramour poses as unsuccessful suitor. When surprised with the wife he tells the husband that he has been trying to force the woman, with no success. The wife supports the statement. K1517.5
• Paramour escapes disguised as monk. K1517.6
• Paramour disguised as pregnant woman. K1517.7
• Paramour poses as robber. K1517.8
• Paramour disguised as cloth merchant is surprised by the husband. He asks the woman to be paid for a pretended sale. K1517.9
• Paramour leaving love-tryst is met by husband. Pretends he had come to see him on business. K1517.10
• Paramour escapes by pretending to be returning borrowed basket. K1517.11
• Escaping paramour said to be a deity. K1517.12
• Husband who has surprised wife and paramour is made to believe that he has had an illusion. K1518.1
• Paramour successfully hidden from husband. K1521
• Paramour successfully hidden in chimney (fireplace). K1521.1
• Paramour successfully hidden in chest. K1521.2
• Paramour placed in chest and covered with clothing. K1521.2.1
• Paramour hidden under the wash. K1521.3
• Paramour hidden in the bed. K1521.4
• Paramour hidden behind a screen. K1521.5
• Husband busied with performing task while paramour escapes. K1521.6
• Paramour rolled into a carpet. K1521.7
• Underground passage to paramour's house. (Inclusa.) Woman goes from one to the other. Her husband is made to believe that the woman next door is her sister. K1523
• The Lord above; the lord below. A husband returning home surprises a woman and her paramour and a numskull who has blundered in. The woman hides the numskull in the bed and the paramour under it. The husband, who is leaving on a journey, lifts his hands to heaven and says, "I commend you to the Lord above." – The numskull: "Commend her rather to the lord below!" K1525
• The feigned wedding-feast. The husband returns unexpectedly to find his wife entertaining the paramour with a sumptuous feast. He is made to believe the feast is in honor of some newly-weds. K1527
• Death feigned to meet paramour. Meetings in the grave (grave box). K1538
• Husband frightened by wife's paramour in hog pen. The husband sees the paramour who has hidden in the pen and says, "Who are you?" "I am a miserable hog." The husband thinks that his hogs are possessed. (Cf. K1515, K1555, K1566, K1574.) K1542
• Husband rescues wife's paramour. Not knowing lover's identity, husband takes him to his wife and entrusts him to her care. He then leaves on a trip. K1544.1
• Woman encourages paramour by song. K1546.2
• Woman has paramour steal her husband's clothes. Paramour gains entrance disguised as the husband. The husband without his clothes is driven away from his home. K1549.1
• Husband deceived as to noise made by hidden paramour. K1549.7
• Woman cooks food for paramour. K1549.8
• Husband outwits adulteress and paramour. K1550
• Adulteress detected by food she prepares for paramour. K1550.1.2
• Adulteress detected by food she prepares for paramour. K1550.3
• Husband feigns blindness and avenges himself on his wife and her paramour. K1553