Beschrijving
The Unsuccessful Murder. A woman wants to poison her husband. The pharmacist gives her herbs instead of the poison that she requests. He tells her husband that she had asked him for poison.
The wife sprinkles the herbs on a bowl of soup and serves it to her husband. He pretends to die. The wife puts a rope through a hole leading upstairs and ties it around the man’s neck. She goes upstairs and tries to pull him up, but he unties himself and ties the rope to his workbench. She uses the rope to pull it up and fastens the rope. Then she calls out the window for help, saying that her husband hanged himself. The wife is tried and convicted.
The wife sprinkles the herbs on a bowl of soup and serves it to her husband. He pretends to die. The wife puts a rope through a hole leading upstairs and ties it around the man’s neck. She goes upstairs and tries to pull him up, but he unties himself and ties the rope to his workbench. She uses the rope to pull it up and fastens the rope. Then she calls out the window for help, saying that her husband hanged himself. The wife is tried and convicted.
Motief
H1194.0.1
J2511
Oorspronkelijk Verhaaltype
1351F*
Subgenre
mop