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- Tests for cuckolds. H425
- Cuckold's knife cannot carve boar's head. H425.1
- Horns grow on cuckold. H425.2
- Man with unfaithful wife comforted when he sees jealous husband who carefully guards wife cuckolded. J882.2
- Trickster artist hoodwinks king: cuckold's eyes cannot see picture. King pretends to see the picture. Courtiers reveal that there is no picture. J1492
- Cuckolded "as per instructions." Woman tells husband that she has become pregnant during his absence according to his own instructions. J2342.2.2
- Cuckold. Husband deceived by adulterous wife. K1501
- Solomon as cuckold. K1501.1
- Cuckold feigns to be asleep when paramour calls. K1501.2
- Cuckold husband hides under bed. K1514.4.2.1
- Old Hildebrand. Hidden cuckold reveals his presence by rhymes. He responds to the rhymes made by the wife and paramour concerning their entertainment. K1556
- Cuckolded man shuts wife's paramour in chest and lies on the chest with latter's wife. K1566
- Cuckold unwittingly lies with wife on chest containing her hidden paramour. K1566.1
- Teacher instructs pupil in the art of love: cuckolded. Student, ignoring woman's identity, seduces the teacher's wife, and reports success to him. The teacher makes futile attempts to surprise wife with pupil. K1692
- Cuckold loses luck. A man's wife is deceived in order that he may lose in gambling. N6.2
- At a funeral of a child a satyr reveals that the real father (officiating priest) sings while the cuckold weeps. (Cf. U15.) U119.1.1