Der Pfaffe mit der Schnur A (>1400)
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Maere and Novellas
Der Pfaffe mit der Schnur A (>1400)
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. 22, Dublin 1967. p. 89–95
PfafSA-1:
Promythion: The poet demands attention for his story. A minister asks a young peasant woman for a night together and she agrees. To be undisturbed she decides to make her husband drunk. She puts a string on her toe and advises the minister to pull. When the lover is late she falls asleep. The peasant discovers the string and binds it to his own toe. He catches the minister but has to give him to his wife to hold him while he fetches some light.
Motif References:
V 465.1.1 Incontinent monk
K 1569.5 Husband catches paramour by using wife’s prearranged signal
PfafSA-155:
She lets her lover escape and takes a donkey instead and shows it to the peasant. She is beaten up and confined. She persuades an old woman outside the door to take her place for a reward to go to her mother for counseling while she makes love to the minister: The peasant beats up his pretended wife and cuts off her braids. The next morning he calls all the relatives to convict his wife of adultery. But the braids he shows are gray and the hair of the peasant woman is unchanged.
Motif References:
K 1512 The cut off nose (braids), A woman leaves her husband’s bed and has another woman take her place, The husband addresses her gets no answer and cuts off her hair (hose), In the morning the wife has still hers, The husband is made to believe that he was dreaming, is insane
K 1515 The animal in the chest, The husband has locked the surprised paramour in a chest while he fetches his family as witness of his wife’s unfaithfulness, She frees the lover, Substitutes an animal and discomforts the husband
K 1843.3 Wife substitutes an old woman for herself in her husband’s bed
PfafSA-390:
Now the relatives think that the peasant is insane. They put him into a dough tub and carry him to the church of St. Cyr where the lusty minister exorcises him until he is half drowned in the holy water. The woman burns nine holes in his shaved head with tinder and incense until he swears to St Cyr that he trusts his wife from this moment on. When he sees something suspicious in the future he conceals it in fear of a repeated exorcism.
Motif References:
K 1265 Man falsely reported insane. No one will believe him
K 1548 Adulteress makes believe that her suspicious husband is insane, He is taken away
D 2161.3.8 Insanity magically cured
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