The Abbot
A woman's husband is away on a journey, so she tells her lover, the abbot, to come stay the night. However, her husband returns early, and hearing him at the door, she tells the abbot to hide in another room. The next day, the wife tells her friend, a friar, what has happened. The friar agrees to help, and comes to the woman's house, making small talk with the husband while the abbot silently dresses himself in the friar's spare habit. The abbot then leaves disguised as the friar.
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Nishimura notes relevant motifs and references:
Motif: TMI K521.6 Abbot escapes from his paramour's husband in disguise of priest.
Reference stories: Apuleius, The Golden Ass, 9.17-21; Aristainetos, Erotische Briefe, 1.5 ‘Alkiphron an Lukian’; Seventy Tales of a Parrot, Textus ornatior 28, Textus simplicior 19 (When a man enters a shrine with a prostitute, the night watchman comes and watches them, expecting to punish them at dawn. The man’s wife, knowing this, goes to the shrine with an offering and asks the night watchman to let her in because she has come to pay her respects, then she and the prostitute change clothes and the prostitute leaves. The next morning, when the king learns that they are husband and wife, he scolds the night watchman); Kathasaritsagara, Chapter 13 ‘8B. Śaktimatī’; Mongolische Märchen, ‘II. Ardschi-Bordschi, IV. Vikramâditja’s Gemahlin Tsetsen Büdschiktschi – Der falsche Eid’.
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Abbas appears in the following versions and secondary versions
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Abbas is narrated in the following occurrences
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Abbas appears in the following manuscripts
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