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- The literal host: bread and salt. Guest finds that his host spoke literally when he invited him to share his bread and salt. Later, when the host threatens an importunate beggar, the guest advises the beggar to flee since the host means what he says. J2476
- Terrorizing the paramour (importunate lover). K1213
- Importunate lover induced to dress as woman and sift flour. Is shown to his wife. K1214.1
- Importunate lover is induced to undergo series of humiliations. (1) Disguise as bakery woman. (2) Disguise as priest. (3) Disguise as corpse. (4) Hiding in wine skin. Humiliated each time. K1214.1.1
- Importunate lovers led astray. K1218
- Importunate lover imprisoned and starved: later given choice of lady or food. Chooses food. K1218.1.3.1
- Importunate lover (priest) is forced to hide in chest. Husband takes the chest to the waiting congregation. Clever priest comes out enacting the resurrection of Lazarus. K1218.1.4
- Four importunate lovers are forced to hide in four-compartmented chest which is sold. K1218.1.4.1
- Importunate suitor enticed into sack and beaten by husband. K1218.1.5
- Importunate suitor has his head shaved and tarred and is put into a sack and returned to his men. K1218.1.7
- Three women humiliate importunate lover. First has him hide on thorns, second has him fall into a hole, third has him fall asleep in the street. In revenge he shows them naked, except for face, to his friends. (Cf. K1213.1.) K1218.4.1
- Girl asks importunate lover for weapon to use against her father. Instead, she uses it to defend herself against the suitor. K1218.5
- Importunate lover beaten and sent on street bearing humiliating placard. K1218.6
- Importunate lover tied to tree. K1218.7
- Importunate lover beaten with canes filled with straw. He thinks he is severely wounded. K1218.8
- Importunate lover is given a rendezvous. Obscene tricks played on him. K1218.9.1
- Woman tricks importunate lover with the head of a pike. Thereafter he thinks the vagina is toothed. K1222
- Chaste woman sends man's own wife as substitute (without his knowledge). Then the first woman's husband is substituted for the importunate lover, who has his own wife seduced. K1223.2.1
- Woman leaves importunate lover waiting in her room. Feigns illness and then escapes. K1227.5
- Importunate lover kept overlong at supper: must leave. K1227.9