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Motifs
- Water-spirit surprises and rapes a mortal woman. A son is born who is sleepless. F420.6.1.7
- Wife surprises husband in adultery and shames him into giving her all she desires. K1271.3.1
- The husband in the chicken house. The husband returns unexpectedly and surprises his wife with her lover. She makes the husband believe he is pursued and hides him in the chicken house. (Cf. K1514.9.) K1514.1
- The Lord above; the lord below. A husband returning home surprises a woman and her paramour and a numskull who has blundered in. The woman hides the numskull in the bed and the paramour under it. The husband, who is leaving on a journey, lifts his hands to heaven and says, "I commend you to the Lord above." – The numskull: "Commend her rather to the lord below!" K1525
- Husband surprises wife and paramour. Rebukes them for not shutting the door. K1569.2
- Army appears like forest. Surprises enemy. Each soldier carries branches. (Birnam wood comes to Dunsinane.) K1872.1