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Group No. 165


Letter

K. Deceptions

Group No.

K1300 – K1399

Group name

Seduction or deceptive marriage

Description

K1300. K1300. Seduction.
 
K1301. K1301. Mortal woman seduced by a god. (Cf. K1315.1.) See references to D658.2. Irish: MacCulloch Celtic 62, 80, *Cross; India: Thompson-Balys; Chinese: Eberhard FFC CXX 165f.; Africa (Fang): Einstein 94, Trilles 137.
 
K1302. K1302. Woman won and lost by a ruse. Irish myth: *Cross.
 
K1310. K1310. Seduction by disguise or substitution. Irish myth: Cross; Icelandic: Boberg.
 
K1311. K1311. Seduction by masking as woman‘s husband. *Penzer II 45 n. 4, III 126f.; Boccaccio Decameron III No. 6 (Lee 79); Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles No. 30; Italian Novella: *Rotunda; Jewish: Neuman, bin Gorion Born Judas I 364; India: *Thompson-Balys; Indonesia: Coster-Wijsman 33 No. 11; N. A. Indian (Klikitat): Jacobs U Wash II 31.
 
K1311.0.1. K1311.0.1. Seduction by masking as woman’s husband: ”Why – you have just left!“ After the seduction the husband comes and the wife shows surprise. Italian Novella: *Rotunda.
 
K1311.0.2. K1311.0.2. Trickster kills husband and puts on his skin so as to seduce wife. S. A. Indian (Toba): Métraux MAFLS XL 151.
 
K1311.1. K1311.1. Husband‘s twin brother mistaken by woman for her husband. *Type 303; *BP I 528ff.; Icelandic: Boberg; Italian: Basile Pentamerone I Nos. 7, 9, Rotunda; India: *Thompson-Balys.
 
K1314. K1314. Seduction by wearing coat of invisibility. (Cf. D1361.12.) Chinese: Graham.
 
K1315. K1315. Seduction by impostor.
 
K1315.1. K1315.1. Seduction by posing as a god. (Cf. K1301.) Jones PMLA XXIII 577; Penzer I 145; Icelandic: Boberg; Spanish Exempla: Keller; Italian Novella: *Rotunda; Jewish: Neuman, bin Gorion Born Judas I 365; India: Thompson-Balys.
 
K1315.1.1. K1315.1.1. Seduction by posing as Angel Gabriel. Boccaccio Decameron IV No. 2 (Lee 123); Italian Novella: *Rotunda.
 
K1315.1.2. K1315.1.2. Seduction on promise that issue will be the fifth Evangelist. Italian Novella: Rotunda.
 
K1315.1.2.1. K1315.1.2.1. Seduction on feigned orders from angel to engender a pope. Girl born. Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles No. 14; Italian Novella: *Rotunda.
 
K1315.2. K1315.2. Seduction by posing as doctor. Icelandic: Herrmann Saxo II 239, Boberg; Italian Novella: Rotunda; N. A. Indian: *Thompson Tales 305 n. 109r.
 
K1315.2.1. K1315.2.1. Girl persuaded to sit on certain plant: seduced. Man as sham doctor tells her how to heal her burnt groins. N. A. Indian: *Thompson Tales 305 n. 109q.
 
K1315.2.2. K1315.2.2. Seduction by sham process of retrieving lost gem. Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles No. 3; Italian Novella: *Rotunda.
 
K1315.2.3. K1315.2.3. Seduction by sham process of repairing vagina. Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles No. 3.
 
K1315.2.4. K1315.2.4. Seduction by pretending to give childless man’s wife medicine. When husband comes at cockcrow as he was told, trickster says he came too late and they must do it again. India: Thompson-Balys.
 
K1315.3. K1315.3. Seduction by posing as magician. (Sham incantation, etc.) Italian Novella: *Rotunda.
 
K1315.3.1. K1315.3.1. Seduction by feigning enchantment. Italian Novella: Rotunda.
 
K1315.3.2. K1315.3.2. Seduction attempted on promise of magic transformation: woman to mare. Finishing the tail. Italian Novella: Rotunda.
 
K1315.4. K1315.4. Seduction by posing as a relative. Italian Novella: *Rotunda.
 
K1315.5. K1315.5. Seduction by posing as nobleman. Italian Novella: Rotunda.
 
K1315.5.1. K1315.5.1. Prostitute poses as noble woman. Italian Novella: Rotunda.
 
K1315.6. K1315.6. Seduction by posing as holy man (churchman). Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 2906*.
 
K1315.6.1. K1315.6.1. Tricksters persuade women that they must share their marital intimacies with them. Italian Novella: *Rotunda.
 
K1315.6.2. K1315.6.2. Seduction attempted on threat of performing miracle. Italian Novella: Rotunda.
 
K1315.6.3. K1315.6.3. Girl disguised as friar gets into priest‘s bed. Italian Novella: Rotunda.
 
K1315.6.4. K1315.6.4. Seduction by posing as saint. India: Thompson-Balys.
 
K1315.7. K1315.7. Seduction by posing as teacher or instructor. Italian Novella: Rotunda.
 
K1315.7.1. K1315.7.1. Seduction by pretending to instruct (or to need instruction) in marital duties. Italian Novella: *Rotunda.
 
K1315.7.2. K1315.7.2. Seduction under pretence of teaching a game. Italian Novella: Rotunda.
 
K1315.8. K1315.8. Seduction upon false promise of marriage. Italian Novella: *Rotunda.
 
K1315.9. K1315.9. Seduction by offering protection against non-existing danger. Italian Novella: *Rotunda.
 
K1315.10. K1315.10. Seduction by posing as beggar. Herrmann Saxo II 578.
 
K1315.11. K1315.11. Seduction by posing as leper. Icelandic: Sturlaugs saga St. 641-45 ch. 25, Boberg.
 
K1315.12. K1315.12. Seduction by posing as merchant. Icelandic: *Boberg.
 
K1315.13. K1315.13. Seduction by masking as soldier. Herrmann Saxo II 239.
 
K1315.14. K1315.14. Seduction: weaver posing as king. India: Thompson-Balys.
 
K1317. K1317. Lover‘s place in bed usurped by another. *Child I 137-41; Nouvelles Récréations No. 54; India: Thompson-Balys.
 
K1317.1. K1317.1. Serving-man in his master’s place. Chauvin II 92 No. 38; Bødker Exempler 289 No. 41; Spanish Exempla: Keller; Italian Novella: Rotunda.
 
K1317.1.1. K1317.1.1. Master in serving-man’s place in woman‘s bed. (Cf. K1569.7.) India: Thompson-Balys.
 
K1317.2. K1317.2. Leper intercepts letter and takes paramour’s place with princess. Cape Verde Islands: Parsons MAFLS XV (1) 237 No. 79.
 
K1317.2.1. K1317.2.1. Old woman intercepts letter and takes girl‘s place in man’s bed. Hdwb. d. Märchens I 326a n. 15.
 
K1317.2.2. K1317.2.2. Letter delivered to wrong man. He substitutes for the lover. Heptameron No. 35; Italian Novella: Rotunda.
 
K1317.3. K1317.3. Vengeful paramours send syphilitic man to substitute in woman‘s bed. *Schwartz Zs. f. Vksk. XXVI 136.
 
K1317.4. K1317.4. Man caught running by guards has to tell his destination. One of the guards substitutes for him with his sweetheart. Italian Novella: Rotunda.
 
K1317.5. K1317.5. Woman substitutes for her daughter in the dark. Heptameron No. 30; Italian Novella: Rotunda.
 
K1317.6. K1317.6. Use of drugs to usurp lover’s place.
 
K1317.6.1. K1317.6.1. Woman drugs sister and substitutes for her with lover. Italian Novella: Rotunda.
 
K1317.7. K1317.7. Woman mistakes passer-by for lover. Substitution in the dark. Italian Novella: Rotunda; India: *Thompson-Balys.
 
K1317.8. K1317.8. Moorish (black) girl substituted for mistress (in the dark). Italian Novella: Rotunda.
 
K1317.9. K1317.9. Man intercepts love letter and takes lover‘s place in elopement. India: Thompson-Balys.
 
K1317.10. K1317.10. Devil comes to rendezvous instead of woman’s lover. India: Thompson-Balys.
 
K1318. K1318. Trickster shifts married couples in bed. Old man married to young woman and young man married to old woman. The shift is satisfactory to the young couple. *BP III 394 (3); Anderson FFC XLII 364; Köhler-Bolte II 305ff.
 
K1321. K1321. Seduction by man disguising as woman. Nouvelles de Sens No. 8; Irish myth: *Cross; Italian Novella: Rotunda.
 
K1321.1. K1321.1. Man disguised as woman admitted to women‘s quarters: seduction. *Types 516, 1542; Rösch FFC LXXVII 109; *Fischer-Bolte 215; *Krappe Balor 12 n. 42; Penzer I 47n., 48n.; Herrmann Saxo II 239, 493, 641; Italian Novella: *Rotunda; Greek: Frazer Apollodorus II 73 n. 2 (Achilles); India: *Thompson-Balys, Ruben FFC CXXXIII 41.
 
K1321.1.1. K1321.1.1. Man disguised as pregnant woman admitted to girl’s bed. Italian Novella: *Rotunda.
 
K1321.1.2. K1321.1.2. Seducer successfully disguised as washerwoman for fifteen years. Finally exposed. Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles No. 45; Italian Novella: *Rotunda.
 
K1321.1.3. K1321.1.3. Man wishes to learn and gains entrance to learned girl’s presence in woman‘s disguise. India: Thompson-Balys.
 
K1321.2. K1321.2. Man disguised as woman abducts princess. *Type 516; *BP I 46; Icelandic: *Boberg.
 
K1321.3. K1321.3. Man disguised as woman courted (married) by another man. Spanish: Boggs FFC XC 104 No. 857; India: *Thompson-Balys; Eskimo (West Hudson Bay): Boas BAM XV 248; N. A. Indian: *Thompson Tales 304 n. 109n.
 
K1321.3.1. K1321.3.1. Man disguised as woman beguiles hostile chief. Infatuates him and then kills him in drunken sleep. *Wesselski Archiv Orientální II 430; Icelandic: MacCulloch Eddic 88; India: Thompson-Balys; Japanese: Anesaki 303f.
 
K1321.4. K1321.4. Men disguised as women enter convent and seduce impious nuns. (Cf. K1323.) Italian Novella: Rotunda.
 
K1322. K1322. Girl masked as man wins princess‘s love. Type 514; BP II 87, III 84; Spanish: Espinosa III No. 155; Italian: Basile Pentamerone IV No. 6; India: *Thompson-Balys.
 
K1322.1. K1322.1. The lovely ascetic (girl in man‘s clothes) wins love of a rich woman. *Loomis White Magic 111.
 
K1323. K1323. Man disguised as gardener enters convent and seduces nuns. (Cf. K1321.4.) Boccaccio Decameron III No. 1 (Lee 59); Italian Novella: *Rotunda.
 
K1323.1. K1323.1. Messenger from lover to girl-captive in harem poses as a singer who amuses the harem ladies in their apartments. India: Thompson-Balys.
 
K1325. K1325. Seduction by feigned death. The girl comes to the man‘s wake or funeral. Child I 242 – 253, 506f., II 502a, III 503a, IV 453, V 212, 299a.
 
K1352. K1352. Death feigned to woo maiden. She shows remorse when she hears of his death.
 
K1325.0.1. K1325.0.1. Hero feigns death and is copulated with by divine maidens. India: Thompson-Balys.
 
K1325.1. K1325.1. Seduction by feigned sleep. The guest in the conjugal bed feigns sleep as he effects seduction. Italian Novella: *Rotunda.
 
K1326. K1326. Seduction by feigned illness. S. A. Indian (Toba): Métraux MAFLS XL 147; West Indies: Flowers 536f.
 
K1326.1. K1326.1. Seduction by asking for sham cure for sham illness. Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles No. 95; Italian Novella: *Rotunda.
 
K1327. K1327. Seduction by feigned stupidity. Cautious farmer seeks laborer who knows nothing about sex. Trickster makes silly explanation of copulation of animals. When admitted into service, seduces both farmer‘s wife and daughter. Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 2907*; Estonian: Aarne FFC XXV No. 1544*; Russian: Andrejev No. 1544A*.
 
K1328. K1328. Disguise as animal to seduce woman. India: Thompson-Balys.
 
K1330. K1330. Girl tricked into man’s room (or power).
 
K1331. K1331. ”No!“ The princess must answer all questions by ”No“. By clever framing of his question the hero wins her to his desires. *Types 851, 853; BP I 192; **Kristoffer Nyrop Nej: et motivs historie (København, 1891); Dania V 1ff., 164ff., 166; *Toldo Zs. f. Vksk. XV 69 n. 2.
 
K1332. K1332. Seduction by taking aboard ship to inspect wares. *Type 516; **Rosch FFC LXXVII 103; Köhler-Bolte I 464; *Hdwb. d. Märchens I 551a nn. 221 – 295; Panzer Hilde-Gudrun 268ff.; *Schoepperle I 193 n. 1; Italian: Basile Pentamerone IV No. 9; India: Thompson-Balys. Cf. bin Gorion Born Judas I 187.
 
K1332.1. K1332.1. Seduction by scattering jewels. Girl seized when she tries to take jewels. India: Thompson-Balys.
 
K1332.2. K1332.2. Seduction by enticing woman to inspect wares in tent. Jewish: Neuman.
 
K1332.3. K1332.3. Seduction by promise of jewels. Icelandic: Boberg.
 
K1333. K1333. Seduction by having maiden placed in floating chest. *Hertel Zs. f. Vksk. XIX 83ff.; India: Thompson-Balys.
 
K1334. K1334. Seduction (or wooing) on an aerial journey. Jones PMLA XXIII 563.
 
K1335. K1335. Seduction (or wooing) by stealing clothes of bathing girl (swan maiden). *Types 313, 400; Penzer VIII 58 n. 2, 213ff., IX 20 n. 1; Hdwb. d. Märchens I 433b. nn. 92 – 105; Irish myth: *Cross; India: *Thompson-Balys; Chinese: Graham; Japanese: Ikeda; Korean: Zong in-Sob 22 No. 11; Philippine (Tinguian): Cole 109. See all notes to D361.1.
 
K1336. K1336. Magic helper brings girl to hero‘s bed. *Chauvin V 62 No. 19 n. 1.
 
K1339. K1339. Girl tricked into man’s room (power) – miscellaneous.
 
K1339.1. K1339.1. Fresh hides spread on grass; girl slips up and is deflowered. Greek: Frazer Apollodorus I 309.
 
K1339.2. K1339.2. Woman enticed to upper world on a stretching tree. N. A. Indian: *Thompson Tales 332 n. 200.
 
K1339.2.1. K1339.2.1. Seduction by luring woman to platform to look for distant ship. Tonga: Gifford 29, 46.
 
K1339.3. K1339.3. Woman enticed into man‘s room by feigned illness. Heptameron No. 10; Italian Novella: Rotunda.
 
K1339.4. K1339.4. Seduction by sham beauty test. Trickster dupes two girls into submitting to test. Both seduced. Italian Novella: Rotunda.
 
K1339.5. K1339.5. Girl tricked by use of drugs. Subsequent pregnancy used to force her into marrying seducer. Italian Novella: Rotunda.
 
K1339.6. K1339.6. Seduction by priest who insists on woman having confession in his own house. Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 2917*.
 
K1339.7. K1339.7. Trickster agrees to carry old woman and girl across stream: carries girl across and rides off with her leaving old woman on other side. India: *Thompson-Balys.
 
K1339.8. K1339.8. Leak in roof over woman‘s bed: in rain must go to bed with trickster. N. A. Indian: *Thompson Tales 305 n. 109s; S. A. Indian (Tenibé): Métraux RMLP XXXIII 140.
 
K1340. K1340. Entrance into girl’s (man‘s) room (bed) by trick.
 
K1341. K1341. Entrance to woman’s room in hollow artificial animal.
 
K1341.1. K1341.1. Entrance to woman‘s room in golden ram. Princess’s curiosity aroused and the golden ram carried into the room. The youth is concealed inside. *Types 854, 900; *BP I 443ff., 446 n. 2; *Krappe Balor 12 n. 41; Köhler-Bolte Zs. f. Vksk. VI 166 (to Gonzenbach No. 68, cf. No. 23); Rösch FFC LXXVII 109; Philippson FFC L 30. -Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 860*; Italian Novella: *Rotunda; N. A. Indian: Thompson CColl II 428.
 
K1342. K1342. Entrance into woman‘s (man’s) room by hiding in chest. *Type 882; Köhler-Bolte I 211f.; Fb ”kiste“ II 134; Boccaccio Decameron II No. 9 (Lee 57); Italian Novella: *Rotunda; India: Thompson-Balys. Cf. Shakespeare‘s Cymbeline.
 
K1342.0.1. K1342.0.1. Man carried into woman’s room hidden in basket. (Cf. K1343.1.) *Spargo Virgil the Necromancer 139, 370 n. 7; English: Wells 140 (Floris and Blauncheflur); Icelandic: Boberg.
 
K1342.0.2. K1342.0.2. Entrance into woman‘s room in lamp stand. India: Thompson-Balys.
 
K1342.1. K1342.1. Heroine in hiding-box which is bought by prince. *Cox 489.
 
K1342.1.1. K1342.1.1. Man in magic hiding box bought by girl’s father. India: Thompson-Balys.
 
K1343. K1343. Man drawn up into female apartments on rope. *Spargo Virgil the Necromancer 139, 369 n. 6; Penzer V 24.
 
K1343.1. K1343.1. Man drawn up into female apartments in basket. (Cf. K1342.0.1.) *Spargo Virgil the Necromancer 136ff., 368ff.; Penzer V 147 n. 1; Spanish Exempla: Keller; Italian Novella: Rotunda; India: Thompson-Balys; all references to K1211.
 
K1343.2. K1343.2. Man disguised as woman carried into princess‘s room: marries her. (Cf. K1321.1.) Korean: Zong in-Sob 126 No. 60.
 
K1344. K1344. Tunnel entrance to guarded maiden’s chamber. Icelandic: Boberg; Italian: Basile Pentamerone II No. 2; Italian Novella: Rotunda; India: *Thompson-Balys; S. A. Indian (Chiriguano): Métraux RMLP XXXIII 142, MAFLS XL 159.
 
K1344.1. K1344.1. Girl seduced from beneath ground. S. A. Indian (Uru-Chipaya): Métraux RMLP XXXIII 109.
 
K1345. K1345. Tale of the cradle. Two youths pass the night with a family where all sleep in a common room, with a cradle at the foot of one of the beds. The moving of the cradle in the night confuses those walking about so that the strangers sleep with the wife and the daughter. Type 1363; *Robinson Complete Works of Chaucer 790a (Reeves Tale); *Varnhagen ”Die Erzählung von der Wiege“ Englische Studien IX 240; Bédier Fabliaux 463; von der Hagen III *xix, 37ff.; Boccaccio Decameron IX No. 6 (Lee 281); Italian Novella: *Rotunda.
 
K1346. K1346. Hero flies to maiden’s room. Enters her tower by means of artificial wings (or on flying horse). *Type 575; BP II 134 n. 1; *Krappe Balor 11 n. 40; India: *Thompson-Balys.
 
K1346.1. K1346.1. Hero flies on magic carpet to maiden‘s room. Africa (Kordofan): Frobenius Atlantis IV 101ff. No. 11.
 
K1347. K1347. Man is ushered into maiden’s room by maidservant. He then takes the latter‘s place in the mistress’s bed. Italian Novella: Rotunda.
 
K1348. K1348. Lover gets into maiden‘s room by means of a ladder. Italian Novella: *Rotunda.
 
K1349. K1349. Other means of entering into girl’s (man‘s) room (bed).
 
K1349.1. K1349.1. Disguise to enter girl’s (man‘s) room. (Cf. K1310 – 1329, passim.)
 
K1349.1.1. K1349.1.1. Lover disguised as porter gains access to princess‘s room. (Cf. K1816.7.) Italian Novella: Rotunda.
 
K1349.1.2. K1349.1.2. Disguise as madman to enter girl’s room. (Cf. K1818.3.) Italian Novella: *Rotunda; India: Thompson-Balys.
 
K1349.1.3. K1349.1.3. Trickster gains access to woman‘s room disguised as peddler. (Cf. K1817.4.) Italian Novella: Rotunda; India: *Thompson-Balys.
 
K1349.1.4. K1349.1.4. Man disguised as groom enters mistress’s room. Heptameron No. 26.
 
K1349.1.5. K1349.1.5. Man feigns sick in order to enter room of princess skilled in healing, and woos her for his friend. (Cf. K1818, T51.1.1.) Icelandic: Boberg.
 
K1349.2. K1349.2. Trickster gains access to woman‘s room by pretending he has news of her absent lover. Italian Novella: Rotunda.
 
K1349.3. K1349.3. Access gained by the aid of rival’s mule. Man tries in vain to learn the identity of his friend‘s mistress. Mounts his friend’s mule, which takes him to the secret rendezvous. Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles No. 31; Italian Novella: *Rotunda.
 
K1349.4. K1349.4. Lover visits guarded maiden while harper puts mother to sleep. Irish myth: *Cross; Italian Novella: Rotunda.
 
K1349.5. K1349.5. Access for seduction gained by removing locks. Italian Novella: *Rotunda.
 
K1349.6. K1349.6. Lover gets self carried into beloved’s house to wait for clean clothes after a purposeful fall in mud. Heptameron No. 42.
 
K1349.7. K1349.7. Man burns down own neighboring house to gain access to bedroom of beloved. Heptameron No. 26.
 
K1349.8. K1349.8. Entrance into woman’s room through concealed door. Heptameron No. 2, 4.
 
K1349.9. K1349.9. Trickster pretends to seek lost ball by woman‘s bed: seduces her. N. A. Indian (California): Gayton and Newman 81.
 
K1349.10. K1349.10. Admission to woman’s room by means of cap of invisibility. India: Thompson-Balys.
 
K1350. K1350. Woman persuaded (or wooed) by trick.
 
K1351. K1351. The weeping bitch. A procuress throws pepper into the eyes of a bitch so that she weeps. She pretends to the virtuous woman that the bitch is a woman transformed because of failure to respond to her lover. The woman is persuaded. *Type 1515; *Chauvin VIII 45 No. 13; *Oesterley No. 28; *Crane Vitry 239 No. 251; Elsner Untersuchungen zu den mittelenglischen Fabliau ”Dame Siriz“; Fb ”hund“ IV 227b; *von der Hagen I cxii; Scala Celi 87a No. 510; *Penzer I 169; *Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 873; Alphabet No. 537; Hdwb. d. Märchens I 95a; *Krappe Bulletin Hispanique XXXIX 38; Spanish Exempla: Keller.
 
K1352. K1352. Death feigned to woo maiden. She shows remorse when she hears of lover‘s death. **N. Soumtzov Piesni i skazki o jivom mertvetzie (Kievskaia Starina, March 1894, reviewed in RTP IX 356).
 
K1353. K1353. Woman deceived into sacrificing honor. Ruler promises to release her brother (husband) but afterward refuses to do so. *Bolte Zs. f. Vksk. XII 65; Spanish Exempla: Keller; Italian Novella: *Rotunda; Jewish: bin Gorion Born Judas I 107, 366, Neuman.
 
K1353.1. K1353.1. Trickster offers food for woman‘s favors which will completely satisfy him. He refuses payment on grounds that he is not satisfied. India: Thompson-Balys.
 
K1354. K1354. Seduction by bearing false order from husband or father.
 
K1354.1. K1354.1. ”Both?“ The youth is sent to the house to get two articles. He meets the two daughters and calls back to the master. ”Both?“ ”Yes, I said both!“ replies the master. The youth has his will of both daughters. *Type 1563; Chauvin VI 180 No. 342; Bolte Montanus Gartengesellschaft 611 No. 73; Köhler-Bolte I 150, 291; N. A. Indian: Thompson CColl II 420ff.; Cape Verde Islands: Parsons MAFLS XV (1) 115.
 
K1354.1.1. K1354.1.1. Trickster masking as girl‘s father advises intercourse with trickster. She obeys. India: Thompson-Balys.
 
K1354.2. K1354.2. Seduction by bringing false order from husband. Jewish: Gaster Exempla 220 No. 159, *Neuman.
 
K1354.2.1. K1354.2.1. Trickster asks husband for one thing and the wife for another. The husband‘s order: ”Let him have what he wants.“ Italian Novella: Rotunda.
 
K1354.2.2. K1354.2.2. Trickster friar seduces woman under pretence of administering forgotten sacrament. When the woman objects, the husband who thinks the friar is engaging in a legitimate process, orders: ”Bear the ordeal in peace.“ Italian Novella: Rotunda.
 
K1354.2.3. K1354.2.3. Fox sleeps with tiger’s wife by giving her deceptive message from her mate. S. A. Indian (Chiriguano): Métraux RMLP XXXIII 180.
 
K1354.3. K1354.3. Seduction by bearing false order from mother.
 
K1354.3.1. K1354.3.1. Friar undertakes to awaken girl. He follows her mother‘s order according to his own interpretation. Italian Novella: Rotunda.
 
K1354.3.2. K1354.3.2. Trickster masking as bridegroom tells bride that he comes at her mother’s request. Italian Novella: Rotunda.
 
K1354.4. K1354.4. Seduction by bearing false order from lover. Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles No. 31.
 
K1355. K1355. Altered letter of execution gives princess to hero. On his way robbers steal the letter and change it so that instead of being killed he is married to the princess. *Type 930; **Aarne FFC XXIII; *BP I 276ff.; *Chauvin VIII 145 No. 145ABC; Alphabet No. 593; Herrmann Saxo II 287; Spanish: Espinosa Jr. No. 116.
 
K1357. K1357. Lover‘s gift regained. The husband appears before payment can be made to wife. *Type 1731; **Spargo FFC XCI 50ff.; Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 2913*.
 
K1358. K1358. Girl shows herself naked in return for youth’s dancing hogs. *Type 850; *BP II 528; Köhler-Bolte I 428f., 464; Spanish: Espinosa II Nos 5 – 8, Espinosa Jr. No. 131.
 
K1361. K1361. Beggar buys right to sleep before the girl‘s door, at foot of bed, in the bed. Usually with jewel. *Type 900; *Fb ”sove“ III 472b, ”seng“ III 187a; West Indies: Flowers 537f.
 
K1361.1. K1361.1. Transformed person sleeps before girl‘s door, at foot of bed, in the bed. Is disenchanted upon admission to the bed. *Type 440; *BP I 1ff.
 
K1361.2. K1361.2. Progressive purchase of favors: the anatomical progression. Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 2916*; Cheremis: Sebeok-Nyerges; Italian Novella: Rotunda.
 
K1361.3. K1361.3. Seduction by begging into woman‘s room to get warm. (Cf. K1393.) Korean: Zong in-Sob 13 No. 6.
 
K1362. K1362. Innocent girl sells her ”love“ and later receives it back. When she tells her mother what has happened, she is beaten. Thinking to right matters, she demands that the knight return what he has taken. (Sequel: K1275.) Type 886; *von der Hagen II v, vi, 3, 19 Nos. 21, 22; Italian Novella: Rotunda.
 
K1363. K1363. Seduction of person ignorant of sexual intercourse.
 
K1363.1. K1363.1. Putting the Devil in Hell. Obscene trick used to seduce woman. Italian Novella: *Rotunda.
 
K1363.1.1. K1363.1.1. Putting the Devil in hand. Italian Novella: Rotunda.
 
K1363.2. K1363.2. Friar adds missing nose (fingers) to unborn child: foetus is imperfect and he will substitute for absent husband. Is praised by the latter on his return. Nouvelles Récréations No. 9; Italian Novella: *Rotunda; West Indies: Flowers 538.
 
K1364. K1364. Woman abducted by giving her medicine which appears to have killed her. India: Thompson-Balys.
 
K1366. K1366. Second daughter won by representing first as dead. Irish myth: Cross.
 
K1367. K1367. Monk persuades a father to set daughter afloat in box: monk seduces her. India: Thompson-Balys.
 
K1368. K1368. Seduction by making woman jealous of co-wife. India: Thompson-Balys.
 
K1371. K1371. Bride-stealing. *Hdwb. d. Märchens I 549a nn. 175-204; Icelandic: *Boberg; Missouri French: Carrière; Jewish: *Neuman; India: *Thompson-Balys.
 
K1371.1. K1371.1. Lover steals bride from wedding with unwelcome suitor. *Type 885; Child IV 218, 230, V 260f.; Hdwb. d. Märchens I 549b nn. 205-215; *Boje 110ff.; literary treatment: Scott ”Lochinvar“, Ibsen ”Peer Gynt“; Icelandic: *Boberg; India: Thompson-Balys.
 
K1371.1.1. K1371.1.1. Parson deceived into marrying his intended bride to her real lover. The parson thinks it is a mock-wedding, but it turns out to be real. Danish: Grundtvig MS No. 162 in Dansk Folkemindesamling.
 
K1371.1.2. K1371.1.2. Lover’s foster brother (friend) steals bride from wedding with unwelcome suitor. Icelandic: *Boberg.
 
K1371.2. K1371.2. Father tricked into giving away disguised daughter in marriage. Scottish: Campbell-McKay No. 14.
 
K1371.3. K1371.3. Rat changes name and wins wife intended for leopard. Africa (Mpongwe): Nassau 41ff. N. 6.
 
K1371.4. K1371.4. Lover in disguise abducts beloved. Icelandic: *Boberg.
 
K1371.4.1. K1371.4.1. Lover masks as king, knight. Icelandic: *Boberg.
 
K1371.4.2. K1371.4.2. Lover masks as minstrel. India: Thompson-Balys.
 
K1371.5. K1371.5. Man gets bridegroom drunk and enjoys the bride. Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 424.
 
K1371.6. K1371.6. While chief is performing suitor task, rival steals the bride. Easter Island: Métraux Ethnology 57.
 
K1372. K1372. Woman engaged to marry by trick. (Cf. K1371.2, K1377, K1771.9.) Icelandic: *Boberg.
 
K1372.1. K1372.1. Princess tricked into engaging herself to suitor rejected by her father. Icelandic: Boberg.
 
K1372.2. K1372.2. Fool passed off as very eligible young man by matchmaker. India: Thompson-Balys.
 
K1375. K1375. Seduction by alleged vision promising woman to man. Jewish: *Neuman.
 
K1375.1. K1375.1. Seduction of wife by alleging that husband‘s vision compels him to leave home. Jewish: Neuman.
 
K1377. K1377. Incestuous marriage arranged by trick. India: Thompson-Balys; N. A. Indian: **Schmerler JAFL XLIV 196-207.
 
K1380. K1380. Seductions – miscellaneous.
 
K1382. K1382. Trickster pretends lameness and is taken on woman’s back: violates her. Indonesia: Coster-Wijsman 47 No. 58; N. A. Indian: **Schmerler JAFL XLIV 200; Africa (Yoruba): Ellis 270 No. 5.
 
K1383. K1383. Trickster throws corpse into river and accuses princess of murder: marriage to avoid scandal. *Type 1655; *BP II 201; Norwegian: Christiansen Norske Eventyr 141 No. 1655.
 
K1384. K1384. Female overpowered when caught in tree cleft (hole in hedge). *Type 36; Krohn Bär (Wolf) und Fuchs (JSFO VI) 89ff.; Indonesia: DeVries‘s list No. 45.
 
K1386. K1386. Man won over by woman’s obscene trick. Italian Novella: *Rotunda.
 
K1387. K1387. Lecherous trickster seduces women from tree and loses them. N. A. Indian: *Thompson Tales 331 n. 195.
 
K1388. K1388. Trickster sends letter ordering bearer detained and meanwhile steals bearer‘s wife. Spanish: Boggs FFC XC 150 No. 1850, Keller.
 
K1388.1. K1388.1. Husband persuaded to dig up a treasure buried in an ant hill. He is poisoned by a snake and his wife taken. India: Thompson-Balys.
 
K1391. K1391. Long distance sexual intercourse. Trickster by magic has intercourse with woman across stream. N. A. Indian: *Thompson Tales 305 n. 109u.
 
K1392. K1392. Trickster and girls play obscene tricks on one another. N. A. Indian: *Thompson Tales 306 n. 109w.
 
K1393. K1393. Woman seduces boy by feigning illness (chill, etc.) Italian Novella: Rotunda; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera I 887.
 
K1394. K1394. Man coveting his friend‘s wife causes her to leave her husband. Friend mutually agree to beat wives. Trickster only pretends to do so while other beats his and angers her. India: Thompson-Balys.
 
K1395. K1395. Seduction by giving aphrodisiac. Woman tricked into standing naked in stream; medicine put into water. India: Thompson-Balys.
 
K1396. K1396. Guest at inn is told that there is but one available bed: that of the mistress. Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles No. 7; Italian Novella: Rotunda.
 
K1397. K1397. Lucretia seduced through threat. Sextus says he will kill her and leave a naked slave in her bed to bring dishonor on her house. She yields. Spanish Exempla: Keller.
 
K1398. K1398. The trickster with painted member. The father wants his daughter’s child to be a bishop. Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 2914*; Livonian: Loorits FFC LXVI No. 1547*.
 
K1399. K1399. Additional seductions.
 
K1399.1. K1399.1. The taming of the wild prince. Lost in the woods the little prince grows up among wild animals; lets no one come near him. Only a servant girl succeeds in taming him. Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 877*.
 
K1399.2. K1399.2. The unusual names. Assuming unusual names, the servant deceives the girl, her mother, and her father. *Type 1732*; Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 2908; Spanish: Boggs FFC XC No. 1940B*.
 
K1399.3. K1399.3. Seduction: trickster shows girl how to store up warmth for winter. Cheremis: Sebeok-Nyerges.
 
K1399.4. K1399.4. Woman secures man‘s spear (arrow), lures him with it into her hut. Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 47f.; Maori: Clark 4.
 
K1399.5. K1399.5. Teacher seduces pupil left in his charge. Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 1038.

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