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Motifs — first 20 of 90
- Dog indicates pregnant woman, adulteress, etc. (Cf. B121.1, B134, B153.) B152.1
- Woman slandered as adulteress is thrown into lion pit. Lions do not harm her. B522.3
- Adulteress returns from dead as devastating dragon. E263
- "Do not trust the over-holy": counsel proved wise by experience. Wife so modest she will not travel with husband (adulteress); priest so pious he will not tread on worm (thief). J21.18
- Adulteress betrayed by little child's remark. J125.2
- Adulteress prepares for old age. Charges a pair of shoes to consort with men. When old she pays with shoes the men who will consort with her. J761.3
- Testimony of unsuccessful suitor discredited. Adulteress is surprised in intrigue by unsuccessful suitor. He threatens to tell her husband. She tells her husband that the scorned suitor has accused her falsely of indiscretion with many men. When the suitor tells the husband he does not believe him. J1151.4
- Adulteress hurled from high rock escapes injury: she may not be punished again. J1184.1
- Adulteress's absurdity rebuked. J1532
- Adulteress makes husband believe that the birth of her mulatto child has been due to suggestion. J2338
- "I am as good as you are." One woman says to another, "You are an adulteress and a thief, and I know that I am just as good as you are." J2666.1
- Adulteress escapes prison disguised as an old woman. K521.4.5
- Adulteress lures husband so as to have him killed. K778.5
- 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
- Adulteress tells lover "I can see the whole world." Hidden shepherd asks "Can you see my lost calves (ass)?" K1271.4
- Adulteress outwits husband. K1510
- Adulteress kills home-coming husband. K1510.1
- The husband locked out. An adulteress returns home late at night and her husband refuses to admit her. She threatens to throw herself into the well. The husband goes after her. She enters the house and bars him out. K1511
- Adulteress refuses to admit husband under pretence that he is a stranger. K1511.1
- Adulteress gets rid of husband while she entertains lover. K1514