Motif Index of German Secular Narratives                 
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Der Spiegel (>1300)

Spieg-1
 

Maere and Novellas

Der Spiegel (>1300)
von Keller, A.(ed.): Erzählungen aus altdeutschen Handschriften (=StLV 35). Stuttgart 1855. p. 471–474

Spieg-1:   A farmhand who woos for the love of the maid in vain finds her one morning asleep near the fire. He fears she would throw him in it if he fulfilled his desire and out of revenge he glues a mirror on her privates. When the maid wakes up she thinks that she burns and cries for help. Even the peasant’s wife is in dismay but the peasant knows that it is a practical joke and praises the farmhand’s cunning.
Motif References:

T 50 Wooing
T 75.2.1 Rejected suitors’ revenge
X 700 Humor concerning sex