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Motifs
- Disenchantment as proof of truth. The prodigy convinces judge that witness is speaking truth. D797
- Wife persuades husband that she has returned immediately. She goes to a neighbor's to cook a fish. She is gone a week. She gets a new fish and cooks it and returns home with the hot fish. She convinces her husband of her short absence. J2315
- Man convinces robbers that house is fully occupied by beating drums all over the house; they flee. K548.2
- The lovers as pursuer and fugitive. The wife is visited by two gallants. When the husband approaches, one goes out with drawn sword; the other hides in the house. She convinces her husband that she has given refuge to a fugitive. K1517.1
- Lover's gift regained: the broken (removed) article. The lover breaks (or removes) an article of household equipment and convinces the husband that for that reason the wife has confiscated that which he gave her as a present. K1581.1
- Deception: mirror-reflection convinces dupe he is trickster's captive. K1883.7