Corpus Delicti - Revision history

Bonsall at 10:45, 9 December 2025

2025-12-09T10:45:15Z

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			\|Has Short Description=The Discovered Corpse
	\|Has Critical Literature=Wikeley (1983); Nishimura (2001)		\|Has Critical Literature=Wikeley (1983); Nishimura (2001)
	\|Has Motif=Adultery; Age versus youth; Animal tale; Dog; Death; Death of husband; Deceitful woman; Foolish old man; Gullible (would-be) lover; Lesson: women’s cleverness and deceit; Marriage; Multiple lovers; Old man; Disposal of corpse; Violence; Murder; Poison; Women committing violence; Evidence		\|Has Motif=Adultery; Age versus youth; Animal tale; Dog; Death; Death of husband; Deceitful woman; Foolish old man; Gullible (would-be) lover; Lesson: women’s cleverness and deceit; Marriage; Multiple lovers; Old man; Disposal of corpse; Violence; Murder; Poison; Women committing violence; Evidence
	\|Has Summary=~~'''The Murdered Man's Dog'''~~		\|Has Summary=The young wife of an elderly Modenese man wishes to marry her young lover instead. She attempts to poison her husband in order to have it appear like a natural death, but he survives the poison. At last, she convinces her lover to murder her husband, but the lover drops the dagger. She picks it up, and cuts the man's throat herself, stabbing him in the heart for good measure. The two decide to bury the body together outside of the city walls. One day, the dead man's dog passes the place where he is buried, and pulls a bloody piece of cloth from the shallow grave; the alarm is raised, the man's body is exhumed and eventually identified, and his wife is caught and executed.

	The young wife of an elderly Modenese man wishes to marry her young lover instead. She attempts to poison her husband in order to have it appear like a natural death, but he survives the poison. At last, she convinces her lover to murder her husband, but the lover drops the dagger. She picks it up, and cuts the man's throat herself, stabbing him in the heart for good measure. The two decide to bury the body together outside of the city walls. One day, the dead man's dog passes the place where he is buried, and pulls a bloody piece of cloth from the shallow grave; the alarm is raised, the man's body is exhumed and eventually identified, and his wife is caught and executed.

Bonsall at 11:12, 24 November 2025

2025-11-24T11:12:02Z

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	\|Has Motif=Adultery; Age versus youth; Animal tale; Dog; Death; Death of husband; Deceitful woman; Foolish old man; Gullible (would-be) lover; Lesson: women’s cleverness and deceit; Marriage; Multiple lovers; Old man; Disposal of corpse; Violence; Murder; Poison; Women committing violence		\|Has Critical Literature=Wikeley (1983); Nishimura (2001)
	\|Has Summary=The young wife of an elderly Modenese man wishes to marry her young lover instead. She attempts to poison her husband in order to have it appear like a natural death, but he survives the poison. At last, she convinces her lover to murder her husband, but the lover drops the dagger. She picks it up, and cuts the man's throat herself, stabbing him in the heart for good measure. The two decide to bury the body together outside of the city walls. One day, the dead man's dog passes the place where he is buried, and pulls a bloody piece of cloth from the shallow grave; the alarm is raised, the man's body is exhumed and eventually identified, and his wife is caught and executed.		\|Has Motif=Adultery; Age versus youth; Animal tale; Dog; Death; Death of husband; Deceitful woman; Foolish old man; Gullible (would-be) lover; Lesson: women’s cleverness and deceit; Marriage; Multiple lovers; Old man; Disposal of corpse; Violence; Murder; Poison; Women committing violence; Evidence
			\|Has Summary='''The Murdered Man's Dog'''

			The young wife of an elderly Modenese man wishes to marry her young lover instead. She attempts to poison her husband in order to have it appear like a natural death, but he survives the poison. At last, she convinces her lover to murder her husband, but the lover drops the dagger. She picks it up, and cuts the man's throat herself, stabbing him in the heart for good measure. The two decide to bury the body together outside of the city walls. One day, the dead man's dog passes the place where he is buried, and pulls a bloody piece of cloth from the shallow grave; the alarm is raised, the man's body is exhumed and eventually identified, and his wife is caught and executed.


	Adapted from Wikeley's (1983) discussion of ''Erasto'' by Ava Byrne, edited by Jane Bonsall.		Adapted from Wikeley's (1983) discussion of ''Erasto'' by Ava Byrne, edited by Jane Bonsall.
			\|Has Note=Nishimura notes the following:

			'''Motifs:''' TMI B134.2: Dog betrays murder. B153.1: Dog indicates other hidden object. J1145.1: Murderer detected by actions of murdered man’s dog.

			'''Analogues:''' Hagen, ''Gesamtabenteuer'', 8 ‘Die Königin von Frankreich und der ungetreue Marschalk’ (a dog leads a person to where his murdered master is buried, resulting in revenge on the murderer). Pauli, ''Schimpf und Ernst'', 434 ‘Der Hund verriet ein Mörder’ (the victim’s dog attacks the murderer whenever he meets him). ''Zen-Aku-Mukui-Banashi'', 1.6. ''Seikyu Yadan'', 6. A story similar to this one is told in Okamoto Kido’s ‘Giken’ (The Righteous Dog), pp. 213-214 of ''Chinese Mysterious Stories''.

			'''Reference stories''', '''etc.:''' Aristophanes, ''The Festival of the Women only'', (p. 260.). Hagen, ‘Von begrabene Ehemann’, in ''Gesamtabenteuer'', 45. Bandello, ''Le Novelle'', 1.9, 2.33. ''Zen-Aku-Mukui-Banashi'', 1.3 ‘The stepmother kills her daughter-in-law’.

			'''Bibliography:''' Chauvin VIII 242. Hagen, I, pp. civ-cxii.
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Bonsall at 16:13, 6 November 2025

2025-11-06T16:13:00Z

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	\|Has Motif=Adultery; Age versus youth; Animal tale; Dog; Death; Death of husband; Deceitful woman; Foolish old man; Gullible (would-be) lover; Lesson: women’s cleverness and deceit; Marriage; Multiple lovers; Old man~~; Murder~~; Disposal of corpse		\|Has Motif=Adultery; Age versus youth; Animal tale; Dog; Death; Death of husband; Deceitful woman; Foolish old man; Gullible (would-be) lover; Lesson: women’s cleverness and deceit; Marriage; Multiple lovers; Old man; Disposal of corpse; Violence; Murder; Poison; Women committing violence
	\|Has Summary=The young wife of an elderly Modenese man convinces her lover to murder her husband. ~~They~~ bury the body together outside of the city walls, where the man's ~~dog discovers it~~.		\|Has Summary=The young wife of an elderly Modenese man wishes to marry her young lover instead. She attempts to poison her husband in order to have it appear like a natural death, but he survives the poison. At last, she convinces her lover to murder her husband, but the lover drops the dagger. She picks it up, and cuts the man's throat herself, stabbing him in the heart for good measure. The two decide to bury the body together outside of the city walls. One day, the dead man's dog passes the place where he is buried, and pulls a bloody piece of cloth from the shallow grave; the alarm is raised, the man's body is exhumed and eventually identified, and his wife is caught and executed.

	Adapted from Wikeley (1983) by Ava Byrne.
			Adapted from Wikeley's (1983) discussion of ''Erasto'' by Ava Byrne, edited by Jane Bonsall.
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Byrne at 20:30, 10 July 2025

2025-07-10T20:30:41Z

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	\|Has Motif=Adultery; Age versus youth; Animal tale; Dog; Death; Death of husband; Deceitful woman; Foolish old man; Gullible (would-be) lover; Lesson: women’s cleverness and deceit; Marriage; Multiple lovers; Old man; Murder		\|Has Motif=Adultery; Age versus youth; Animal tale; Dog; Death; Death of husband; Deceitful woman; Foolish old man; Gullible (would-be) lover; Lesson: women’s cleverness and deceit; Marriage; Multiple lovers; Old man; Murder; Disposal of corpse
	\|Has Summary=The young wife of an elderly Modenese man convinces her lover to murder her husband. They bury the body together outside of the city walls, where the man's dog discovers it.		\|Has Summary=The young wife of an elderly Modenese man convinces her lover to murder her husband. They bury the body together outside of the city walls, where the man's dog discovers it.

	Adapted from Wikeley (1983) by Ava Byrne.		Adapted from Wikeley (1983) by Ava Byrne.
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Adapted from Wikeley (1983) by Ava Byrne.
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