Das Kerbelkraut (ca. 1350)
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Maere and Novellas
Das Kerbelkraut (ca. 1350)
von der Hagen, Fr.H.: Neues Gesamtabenteuer: die Sammlung der mittelhochdeutschen Mären und Schwänke des 13. und 14. Jahrhunderts/ ed. by Heinrich Niewöhner 2nd ed., Vol. 1, Nr. 14, Dublin 1967. p. 51–54
KerK-1:
Promythion: A cunning woman manages to persuade her husband who has watched her adultery that he has been mistaken. A husband watches his wife’s lover depart and beats her up albeit she claims her innocence. She has to remain in bed for four days.
Motif References:
Q 241 Adultery punished
Q 458.0.1 Flogging as punishment for adultery
KerK-91:
Then the punished wife goes to an old bawd for advice how to avoid such beating in the future. The old hag asks if she has eaten something rare in the past. She tells her it had been chervil. When she comes home she initiates a row by accusing her husband to woo a prostitute.
Motif References:
T 452 Bawds
J 1545 Wife outwits her husband
KerK-180:
Angry the husband leaves the house and meets the matchmaker who greets him and tells him that he has two noses and four feet. When he laughs at that she apologizes by saying that she has eaten chervil and now she sees double. At home the husband asks his wife what they have eaten when he has beaten her up. She tells him it had been chervil. Now he believes that it had been the chervil’s effect and apologizes. Epimythion: All men are deceived by their wives. To watch women is futile.
Motif References:
K 1518.1 Husband who has surprised wife and paramour is made to believe that he has had a an illusion
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