Puteus - Revision history

Janssen at 18:18, 3 February 2026

2026-02-03T18:18:25Z

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	\|Has Critical Literature=Nishimura (2001); Clouston (1884); Campbell (1907); Runte, Wikeley, Farrell (1984); Brunner (1933)		\|Has Critical Literature=Nishimura (2001); Clouston (1884); Campbell (1907); Runte, Wikeley, Farrell (1984); Brunner (1933)
	\|Has Motif=Adultery; Deception; Deceitful woman; Gullible husband; Suicide; Woman locked up/kept indoors; Lesson: women’s cleverness and deceit; Humiliation		\|Has Motif=Adultery; Deception; Deceitful woman; Gullible husband; Suicide; Woman locked up/kept indoors; Lesson: women’s cleverness and deceit; Humiliation
	\|Has Summary=This story takes place in a city that maintains a strict curfew, and anyone found in the streets after curfew is severely punished. In this city, a man keeps his wife under lock and key, but unbeknownst to him, she regularly sneaks out to meet a lover (in some versions, she accomplishes this by encouraging her husband to drink to excess nightly). One night, discovering her gone, the man locks the door, and refuses to open it for her when she returns and begs entry. She shouts through the door that she would rather drown herself ~~then~~ face public punishment, and then drops a large rock into the well. Hearing the splash and thinking she has thrown herself into the well, her husband rushes out; his wife slips into the house as he does so, and locks him out instead, refusing to let him in.		\|Has Summary=This story takes place in a city that maintains a strict curfew, and anyone found in the streets after curfew is severely punished. In this city, a man keeps his wife under lock and key, but unbeknownst to him, she regularly sneaks out to meet a lover (in some versions, she accomplishes this by encouraging her husband to drink to excess nightly). One night, discovering her gone, the man locks the door, and refuses to open it for her when she returns and begs entry. She shouts through the door that she would rather drown herself than face public punishment, and then drops a large rock into the well. Hearing the splash and thinking she has thrown herself into the well, her husband rushes out; his wife slips into the house as he does so, and locks him out instead, refusing to let him in.

Bonsall at 12:41, 9 December 2025

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			\|Has Short Description=The Well
	\|Has Critical Literature=Nishimura (2001); Clouston (1884); Campbell (1907); Runte, Wikeley, Farrell (1984); Brunner (1933)		\|Has Critical Literature=Nishimura (2001); Clouston (1884); Campbell (1907); Runte, Wikeley, Farrell (1984); Brunner (1933)
	\|Has Motif=Adultery; Deception; Deceitful woman; Gullible husband; Suicide; Woman locked up/kept indoors; Lesson: women’s cleverness and deceit; Humiliation		\|Has Motif=Adultery; Deception; Deceitful woman; Gullible husband; Suicide; Woman locked up/kept indoors; Lesson: women’s cleverness and deceit; Humiliation
	\|Has Summary=~~'''The Well~~ (or, ~~The Husband Locked Out~~)~~'''~~		\|Has Summary=This story takes place in a city that maintains a strict curfew, and anyone found in the streets after curfew is severely punished. In this city, a man keeps his wife under lock and key, but unbeknownst to him, she regularly sneaks out to meet a lover (in some versions, she accomplishes this by encouraging her husband to drink to excess nightly). One night, discovering her gone, the man locks the door, and refuses to open it for her when she returns and begs entry. She shouts through the door that she would rather drown herself then face public punishment, and then drops a large rock into the well. Hearing the splash and thinking she has thrown herself into the well, her husband rushes out; his wife slips into the house as he does so, and locks him out instead, refusing to let him in.

	This story takes place in a city that maintains a strict curfew, and anyone found in the streets after curfew is severely punished. In this city, a man keeps his wife under lock and key, but unbeknownst to him, she regularly sneaks out to meet a lover (in some versions, she accomplishes this by encouraging her husband to drink to excess nightly). One night, discovering her gone, the man locks the door, and refuses to open it for her when she returns and begs entry. She shouts through the door that she would rather drown herself then face public punishment, and then drops a large rock into the well. Hearing the splash and thinking she has thrown herself into the well, her husband rushes out; his wife slips into the house as he does so, and locks him out instead, refusing to let him in.

			[From Brunner, ''Middle English Seven Sages''. Added by Jane Bonsall.]
	[From Brunner, Middle English Seven Sages. Added by Jane Bonsall.]
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Bonsall at 18:04, 24 November 2025

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	\|Has Critical Literature=Nishimura (2001); Clouston (1884); Campbell (1907); Runte, Wikeley, Farrell (1984)		\|Has Critical Literature=Nishimura (2001); Clouston (1884); Campbell (1907); Runte, Wikeley, Farrell (1984); Brunner (1933)
	\|Has Motif=Adultery; Deception; Deceitful woman; Gullible husband; Suicide; Woman locked up/kept indoors; Lesson: women’s cleverness and deceit		\|Has Motif=Adultery; Deception; Deceitful woman; Gullible husband; Suicide; Woman locked up/kept indoors; Lesson: women’s cleverness and deceit; Humiliation
	\|Has Summary='''The Well (or, The Husband Locked Out)'''		\|Has Summary='''The Well (or, The Husband Locked Out)'''

	This story takes place in a city that maintains a strict curfew, and anyone found in the streets after curfew is severely punished. In this city, a man keeps his wife under lock and key, but unbeknownst to him, she regularly sneaks out to meet a lover (in some versions, she accomplishes this by encouraging her husband to drink to excess nightly). One night, discovering her gone, the man locks the door, and refuses to open it for her when she returns and begs entry. She shouts through the door that she would rather drown herself then face public punishment, and then drops a large rock into the well. Hearing the splash and thinking she has thrown herself into the well, her husband rushes out; his wife slips into the house as he does so, and locks him out instead, refusing to let him in.		This story takes place in a city that maintains a strict curfew, and anyone found in the streets after curfew is severely punished. In this city, a man keeps his wife under lock and key, but unbeknownst to him, she regularly sneaks out to meet a lover (in some versions, she accomplishes this by encouraging her husband to drink to excess nightly). One night, discovering her gone, the man locks the door, and refuses to open it for her when she returns and begs entry. She shouts through the door that she would rather drown herself then face public punishment, and then drops a large rock into the well. Hearing the splash and thinking she has thrown herself into the well, her husband rushes out; his wife slips into the house as he does so, and locks him out instead, refusing to let him in.


			[From Brunner, Middle English Seven Sages. Added by Jane Bonsall.]
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Bonsall at 15:09, 18 June 2025

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	\|Has Motif=Adultery; Deception; Deceitful woman; Gullible husband; Suicide		\|Has Motif=Adultery; Deception; Deceitful woman; Gullible husband; Suicide; Woman locked up/kept indoors; Lesson: women’s cleverness and deceit
	\|Has Summary='''The Well (or, The Husband Locked Out)'''		\|Has Summary='''The Well (or, The Husband Locked Out)'''

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	\|Has ~~Content Tag~~=Adultery; Deception; Deceitful woman; Gullible husband; Suicide		\|Has Motif=Adultery; Deception; Deceitful woman; Gullible husband; Suicide
	\|Has Summary='''The Well (or, The Husband Locked Out)'''		\|Has Summary='''The Well (or, The Husband Locked Out)'''

Bonsall at 17:14, 20 January 2025

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	\|Has Content Tag=Adultery; Deception; Deceitful woman; Gullible husband		\|Has Content Tag=Adultery; Deception; Deceitful woman; Gullible husband; Suicide
	\|Has Summary='''The Well (or, The Husband Locked Out)'''		\|Has Summary='''The Well (or, The Husband Locked Out)'''

Bonsall at 17:14, 20 January 2025

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			\|Has Critical Literature=Nishimura (2001); Clouston (1884); Campbell (1907); Runte, Wikeley, Farrell (1984)
			\|Has Content Tag=Adultery; Deception; Deceitful woman; Gullible husband
	\|Has Summary='''The Well (or, The Husband Locked Out)'''		\|Has Summary='''The Well (or, The Husband Locked Out)'''

	This story takes place in a city that maintains a strict curfew, and anyone found in the streets after curfew is severely punished. In this city, a man keeps his wife under lock and key, but unbeknownst to him, she regularly sneaks out to meet a lover (in some versions, she accomplishes this by encouraging her husband to drink to excess nightly). One night, discovering her gone, the man locks the door, and refuses to open it for her when she returns and begs entry. She ~~claims~~ she would rather drown herself then face public punishment, and then drops a large rock into the well. Hearing the splash and thinking she has thrown herself into the well, her husband rushes out; his wife slips into the house as he does so, and locks him out instead, refusing to let him in.		This story takes place in a city that maintains a strict curfew, and anyone found in the streets after curfew is severely punished. In this city, a man keeps his wife under lock and key, but unbeknownst to him, she regularly sneaks out to meet a lover (in some versions, she accomplishes this by encouraging her husband to drink to excess nightly). One night, discovering her gone, the man locks the door, and refuses to open it for her when she returns and begs entry. She shouts through the door that she would rather drown herself then face public punishment, and then drops a large rock into the well. Hearing the splash and thinking she has thrown herself into the well, her husband rushes out; his wife slips into the house as he does so, and locks him out instead, refusing to let him in.
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			'''Motif and Types:''' TMI K1511, ATU 1377: The husband locked out; TU5246: Wife throws stone in well.

			'''Analogues:''' ''Seventy Tales of a Parrot'', Textus ornatior 25, Textus simplicior 16; ''Disciplina Clericalis'', Example 14, ‘The Well’; ''Tales of Marzuban'', 8.5 ‘The Carpenter and his Wife’; ''Nasreddin Hoca Monogatari'', pp. 208-209; Vincentius Bellovacensis, ''Speculum Morale'', 3.9.5 (p.1395 DE); ''The Book of Tales by A.B.C.'', 303 (235) ‘You’ll never learn a woman’s games:…’; Wesselski, ''Mönchslatein'', 67 (taken from ''Disciplina Clericalis''); ''Decameron'', 7.4; Sercambi, ''Il Novelliere'', 142; ''Arcipreste de Talavera…'', 2.1 ‘De los vicios e tachas e malas condiciones de las perversas mugeres,…’; Legrand d’Aussy, ''Anciens Fabliaux'', 3.146-155 ‘De celui qui enferma sa femme dans une tour,…'; Sachs, nr. 3966, nr. 46, ‘Das weib im brunnen’; Molière, ''George Dandin''. ''Kathāratnākara'', 22.

			'''Reference stories''', '''etc.:''' Sabadino degli Arienti, ''Le Porretane'', 45; Rakugo, ‘Rokushaku-bo’.

			'''Additional Bibliography:''' Chauvin VIII224, IX12; Landau 42; Schwarzbaum, XXII, 28-30; Nishimura, ''Disciplina Clericalis'', pp. 292-295.
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Noeth at 18:42, 19 August 2024

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	\|Has Summary=~~<nowiki>~~'''The Well (or, The Husband Locked Out)'''~~</nowiki>~~		\|Has Summary='''The Well (or, The Husband Locked Out)'''

	This story takes place in a city that maintains a strict curfew, and anyone found in the streets after curfew is severely punished. In this city, a man keeps his wife under lock and key, but unbeknownst to him, she regularly sneaks out to meet a lover (in some versions, she accomplishes this by encouraging her husband to drink to excess nightly). One night, discovering her gone, the man locks the door, and refuses to open it for her when she returns and begs entry. She claims she would rather drown herself then face public punishment, and then drops a large rock into the well. Hearing the splash and thinking she has thrown herself into the well, her husband rushes out; his wife slips into the house as he does so, and locks him out instead, refusing to let him in.		This story takes place in a city that maintains a strict curfew, and anyone found in the streets after curfew is severely punished. In this city, a man keeps his wife under lock and key, but unbeknownst to him, she regularly sneaks out to meet a lover (in some versions, she accomplishes this by encouraging her husband to drink to excess nightly). One night, discovering her gone, the man locks the door, and refuses to open it for her when she returns and begs entry. She claims she would rather drown herself then face public punishment, and then drops a large rock into the well. Hearing the splash and thinking she has thrown herself into the well, her husband rushes out; his wife slips into the house as he does so, and locks him out instead, refusing to let him in.
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Noeth: Text replacement - "|Has Description" to "|Has Summary"

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	This story takes place in a city that maintains a strict curfew, and anyone found in the streets after curfew is severely punished. In this city, a man keeps his wife under lock and key, but unbeknownst to him, she regularly sneaks out to meet a lover (in some versions, she accomplishes this by encouraging her husband to drink to excess nightly). One night, discovering her gone, the man locks the door, and refuses to open it for her when she returns and begs entry. She claims she would rather drown herself then face public punishment, and then drops a large rock into the well. Hearing the splash and thinking she has thrown herself into the well, her husband rushes out; his wife slips into the house as he does so, and locks him out instead, refusing to let him in.		This story takes place in a city that maintains a strict curfew, and anyone found in the streets after curfew is severely punished. In this city, a man keeps his wife under lock and key, but unbeknownst to him, she regularly sneaks out to meet a lover (in some versions, she accomplishes this by encouraging her husband to drink to excess nightly). One night, discovering her gone, the man locks the door, and refuses to open it for her when she returns and begs entry. She claims she would rather drown herself then face public punishment, and then drops a large rock into the well. Hearing the splash and thinking she has thrown herself into the well, her husband rushes out; his wife slips into the house as he does so, and locks him out instead, refusing to let him in.
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Noeth at 15:11, 4 June 2024

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	'''The Well (or, The Husband Locked Out)'''		\|Has Description=<nowiki>'''The Well (or, The Husband Locked Out)'''</nowiki>

	This story takes place in a city that maintains a strict curfew, and anyone found in the streets after curfew is severely punished. In this city, a man keeps his wife under lock and key, but unbeknownst to him, she regularly sneaks out to meet a lover (in some versions, she accomplishes this by encouraging her husband to drink to excess nightly). One night, discovering her gone, the man locks the door, and refuses to open it for her when she returns and begs entry. She claims she would rather drown herself then face public punishment, and then drops a large rock into the well. Hearing the splash and thinking she has thrown herself into the well, her husband rushes out; his wife slips into the house as he does so, and locks him out instead, refusing to let him in.		This story takes place in a city that maintains a strict curfew, and anyone found in the streets after curfew is severely punished. In this city, a man keeps his wife under lock and key, but unbeknownst to him, she regularly sneaks out to meet a lover (in some versions, she accomplishes this by encouraging her husband to drink to excess nightly). One night, discovering her gone, the man locks the door, and refuses to open it for her when she returns and begs entry. She claims she would rather drown herself then face public punishment, and then drops a large rock into the well. Hearing the splash and thinking she has thrown herself into the well, her husband rushes out; his wife slips into the house as he does so, and locks him out instead, refusing to let him in.
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