Sugar
A man gives his wife money to buy food, and she goes to the market. The merchant lusts after her, and offers to give her sugar in exchange for sex. The wife agrees in advance, ties the sugar up in her cloak, and enters the merchant's chambers. While they are busy, the merchant's servant replaces the sugar with dust. The wife returns home none the wiser, leaves the bundle, and goes to fetch her pot. When her husband exclaims that there is nothing but dirt in her cloak, the wife understands that she was swindled. She fetches a seive, and claims that she was kicked by a cow on the way home, dropped everything in the dirt, and must now sift the particles apart. Her husband believes her and sifts the dust.
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Nishimura notes this story, which falls under the heading of motif TMI J1702 (simply titled 'Stupid husband'), has analogues in: Seventy Tales of a Parrot, Textus ornatior 32, Textus simplicior 13 and 32; Der persische Dekameron, 22 ‘Der befreite Jüngling’; Qadiri, The Tooti Nameh, 25 ‘Of a woman, who, having gone to buy Sugar, had an Amour with a Grocer’; Johannis de Capua, Directorium Humanae Vitae, 35.
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