“adultery”

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Adultery among the gods. A164.2
Sun-god commits adultery. A220.0.1
Origin of adultery. It occurs in the primeval human family. A1556.3
Animal reveals mistress's adultery: punished by master. (Cf. A2411.2.1.5, A2422.1.1.) A2237.1
Tabu: adultery. C115
Fairy banished for adultery. (Cf. F254.5, Q241.) F252.4.1
Fairies commit adultery. (Cf. F252.4.1.) F254.5
Man dies on learning of wife's adultery. F1041.1.3.5
Riddling answers betray theft or adultery H582
Riddling answers betray adultery. H582.2
Child unwittingly betrays his mother's adultery. Tells father not to step across chalk line drawn around secretary; if he does secretary may do to him what he did to Mother the other day. J125.2.1
Senator overlooks wife's adultery rather than impair his reputation. J221.1.1
Three sins of the hermit. Choice of three sins given him: adultery, murder (theft), drunkenness. He chooses drunkenness; the others follow. (Cf. J21.25.) J485
Cocks who crow about mistress's adultery killed. Discreet cock saves his life. J551.1
Bird warns mistress against committing adultery: gets neck wrung. J551.1.1
Man disregards priest's warning that he will seduce his wife. Adultery committed. J652.3
Adultery detected by spit marks on the wall. Too high to have been made by husband. J1142.3
Husband relates his wife's adultery in pretended dream. She dies from fright. J1147.1
Detection by disrobing in a dance. A man masking as a maiden has committed adultery with the queen. A clever girl by challenging him to disrobe in a dance exposes the imposture. J1149.3
She knows best: woman denies accusation of adultery. Husband dismisses the truthful accusers saying that she knows her shortcomings better than anyone else, and she denies it. J2342.3

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