Beschrijving
The Marked Coat in the Wife’s Room. A matchmaker finds a wife for her client. She leaves a man’s coat in the woman’s room and marks it. The woman’s husband discovers the coat and, thinking that his wife is an adulteress, casts her out. The wife goes to the client.
In order to reconcile the man and his wife, the matchmaker goes to the husband and asks him if he found a coat with a particular mark on it. The husband realizes that it was she who left the coat. He regrets having been suspicious of his wife and takes her back [K1543].
In order to reconcile the man and his wife, the matchmaker goes to the husband and asks him if he found a coat with a particular mark on it. The husband realizes that it was she who left the coat. He regrets having been suspicious of his wife and takes her back [K1543].
Motief
K1543
Commentaar
Oriental origin (Seven Wise Men).
Oorspronkelijk Verhaaltype
1378
Subgenre
mop