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Heinrich Kaufringer, Drei listige Frauen B (ca. 1400)
HKLFb-1
HKLFb-80
HKLFb-210
HKLFb-308
HKLFb-475
  

Maere and Novellas

Heinrich Kaufringer, Drei listige Frauen B (ca. 1400)
Euling, K. (ed.): Heinrich Kaufringers Gedichte. (=StLV 182) Tübingen 1888. Vol. 11, p. 125–140

HKLFb-1:   Promythion: None on earth is betrayed so often as husbands by their wives. Three peasant women, Jütt, Hiltgart and Mächilt, have sold their eggs on the market and want to share the profit. Hiltgart propose only one heller is to be shared so they decide that it should to be given to the best in betraying the husband.
Motif References:

K 1545 Wives wager as to who can best fool her husband

HKLFb-80:   Hiltgart lies down and pretends that she is only well again if her husband Perchthold has his bad tooth pulled out. He agrees.
Motif References:

J 2324 Wife persuades her husband to have a good tooth pulled

HKLFb-210:   But when the husband is unconscious she calls the minister and makes her husband believe that he has died already. From his deathbed he has to watch her and the servant Hainz making love.
Motif References:

J 2311.0.1 Wife makes her husband believe that he is dead
J 2311.4 The dead man speaks up. [A numskull who has lain down thinks he is dead. The wife and the servant are committing adultery beforehis eyes. He speaks up: “I would have taken revenge for this, when I was alive”.]


HKLFb-308:   Jütt makes her husband Cuonrat drunk and shaves his head like a monk’s tonsure and sends him to church in the morning to read mass for the dead neighbor.
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J 2314 Layman made to believe that he is a monk

HKLFb-475:   Mächilt persuades her naked husband that he is clothed and sends him to church. There he is not able to open up his purse (sac) because his wife has cut it pretending that she wants to help him. When he screams the others realize that their wives have pulled their legs. Angrily they run to the forest. Epimythion: The poet has the reader decide which one has to get the heller as reward.
Motif References:

S 176 Mutilation: sex organs cut off
J 2312 Naked person made to believe he is clothed