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Bonsall at 17:05, 10 March 2026

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	\|Has Note=This 'Wiles of Women' story is found only in the Bohemian version of the Seven Sages. ~~There~~ are ~~clear links~~ to [[Ingenia]], ~~especially as regards the idea~~ of ~~writing down the 'wiles~~ of women'. See also [[Puteus]] for another example of a story in which a husband receives punishment for the wife's adultery.		\|Has Note=This 'Wiles of Women' story is found only in the Bohemian version of the Seven Sages. This story is closely related to the other "Wiles of Women" stories, which are: to [[Ingenia 1\|Ingenia 1, The Trick: The Wiles of Women Collection]], in which a man tries (and fails) to record examples of all of women's trickery; [[Ingenia 2\|Ingenia 2, The Trick: Hidden Under the Throne]], in which a queen challenges a merchant to aids adulterous women to demonstrate his capacity for deceit, then outdoes him; [[Ingenia 3\|Ingenia 3, The Trick: The Fish in the Field]], in which a woman makes a fool of her misogynist husband by convincing him fish appeared magically in the surrounding fields;

			See also [[Puteus]] for another example of a story in which a husband receives punishment for the wife's adultery.


	Nishimura notes the following:		Nishimura notes the following:

Bonsall at 16:16, 10 March 2026

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	\|Has Short Description=The Trick: ~~the~~ Fur Coat		\|Has Short Description=The Trick: The Fur Coat
	\|Has Critical Literature=Murko (1890); Nishimura (2001)		\|Has Critical Literature=Murko (1890); Nishimura (2001)
	\|Has Motif=Adultery; Cross dressing; Cross dressing: man in women’s clothes; Deception; Deceitful woman; Evidence; False evidence of virtue; Gender play; Identity object; Clothes; Lesson: women’s cleverness and deceit; Misinterpretation; Old man; Foolish old man; Orchard; Trees; Violence; Beating		\|Has Motif=Adultery; Cross dressing; Cross dressing: man in women’s clothes; Deception; Deceitful woman; Evidence; False evidence of virtue; Gender play; Identity object; Clothes; Lesson: women’s cleverness and deceit; Misinterpretation; Old man; Foolish old man; Orchard; Trees; Violence; Beating

Bonsall at 15:49, 10 March 2026

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			\|Has Short Description=The Trick: the Fur Coat
	\|Has Critical Literature=Murko (1890); Nishimura (2001)		\|Has Critical Literature=Murko (1890); Nishimura (2001)
	\|Has Motif=Adultery; Cross dressing; Cross dressing: man in women’s clothes; Deception; Deceitful woman; Evidence; False evidence of virtue; Gender play; Identity object; Clothes; Lesson: women’s cleverness and deceit; Misinterpretation; Old man; Foolish old man; Orchard; Trees; Violence; Beating		\|Has Motif=Adultery; Cross dressing; Cross dressing: man in women’s clothes; Deception; Deceitful woman; Evidence; False evidence of virtue; Gender play; Identity object; Clothes; Lesson: women’s cleverness and deceit; Misinterpretation; Old man; Foolish old man; Orchard; Trees; Violence; Beating

Bonsall at 14:57, 2 December 2025

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 {{Inset Story
 |Has Critical Literature=Murko (1890); Nishimura (2001)
-|Has Summary=A steward, whose primary responsibility is tending to his lord's expansive, exotic gardens, has a much younger, beautiful wife. His wife falls for her husband's scribe, who appears disinterested in women. When she sees a piece of the scribe's writing about the 'wiles of women', she laughs, telling him he doesn't know anything of women's tricks. As proof, she tells him that she can easily arrange it so that her husband leaves their chamber in the middle of the night, giving her enough time to meet a lover, and that when he returns he will be none the wiser. The scribe thinks this is impossible, and agrees to do as the woman says to test her claim.
+|Has Motif=Adultery; Cross dressing; Cross dressing: man in women’s clothes; Deception; Deceitful woman; Evidence; False evidence of virtue; Gender play; Identity object; Clothes; Lesson: women’s cleverness and deceit; Misinterpretation; Old man; Foolish old man; Orchard; Trees; Violence; Beating
-That night, the wife suddenly wakes her husband from his sleep. She tells him that she has heard noises in the gardens outside, and that he must carefully check that no harm has come to the plants, and that no fruit has been stolen.
+That night, the wife suddenly wakes her husband from his sleep. She tells him that she has heard noises in the gardens outside, and that he must carefully check that no harm has come to the plants, and that no fruit has been stolen. The steward complains that he will freeze, as his wife recently sent his overcoat to the tailor to be mended. She gives him her fur coat instead, and he leaves. As they had agreed, the scribe then sneaks into the bedchamber, and the two have sex. Then, bearing the wife's instructions in mind, the scribe waits by his chamber door, near the entrance to the garden. Soon the husband comes back, wrapped in the fur coat and shivering; the scribe pretends to think it is the wife returning from some liasion, and berates and beats 'her' for such dishonorable actions. The husband, upon returning to the chamber, is comforted by his wife, and has renewed faith in the loyalty and morality of his scribe.
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{{Inset Story
|Has Critical Literature=Murko (1890); Nishimura (2001)
|Has Summary=A steward, whose primary responsibility is tending to his lord's expansive, exotic gardens, has a much younger, beautiful wife. His wife falls for her husband's scribe, who appears disinterested in women. When she sees a piece of the scribe's writing about the 'wiles of women', she laughs, telling him he doesn't know anything of women's tricks. As proof, she tells him that she can easily arrange it so that her husband leaves their chamber in the middle of the night, giving her enough time to meet a lover, and that when he returns he will be none the wiser. The scribe thinks this is impossible, and agrees to do as the woman says to test her claim.

That night, the wife suddenly wakes her husband from his sleep. She tells him that she has heard noises in the gardens outside, and that he must carefully check that no harm has come to the plants, and that no fruit has been stolen.
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