The Enchanted Pear Tree (AT 1423)
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| - | "An adulterous woman [in the] "[[Merchant's Tale]]" [...] , desiring to carry on an intrigue with her [[paramour]], climbed up a pear-tree to gather the fruit, and when she had reached the top she looked down, and [[pretend]]ed that she saw her husband misconducting himself with another woman. The husband assured her there was no one but himself there, and desired her to come down and see for herself. She came down and admitted there was no one there. Her husband then, at her request, ascended the tree, and she at once called her [[paramour]], and began to amuse herself with him. Her husband saw her from his post in the tree, and began to abuse her; but she declared there was no man with her, and that the pear-tree made her husband [[see double]], just as it had made her see double previously."--Whinfield translation of the ''[[Masnavi]]'' | + | "An adulterous woman [in the] "[[Merchant's Tale]]" [...] , desiring to carry on an intrigue with her [[paramour]], climbed up a pear-tree to gather the fruit, and when she had reached the top she looked down, and [[pretend]]ed that she saw her husband misconducting himself with another woman. The husband assured her there was no one but himself there, and desired her to come down and see for herself. She came down and admitted there was no one there. Her husband then, at her request, ascended the tree, and she at once called her [[paramour]], and began to amuse herself with him. Her husband saw her from his post in the tree, and began to abuse her; but she declared there was no man with her, and that the pear-tree made her husband [[see double]], just as it had made her see double previously."--Whinfield translation of "[[The Enchanted Pear Tree]]" in the ''[[Masnavi]]'' |
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"An adulterous woman [in the] "Merchant's Tale" [...] , desiring to carry on an intrigue with her paramour, climbed up a pear-tree to gather the fruit, and when she had reached the top she looked down, and pretended that she saw her husband misconducting himself with another woman. The husband assured her there was no one but himself there, and desired her to come down and see for herself. She came down and admitted there was no one there. Her husband then, at her request, ascended the tree, and she at once called her paramour, and began to amuse herself with him. Her husband saw her from his post in the tree, and began to abuse her; but she declared there was no man with her, and that the pear-tree made her husband see double, just as it had made her see double previously."--Whinfield translation of "The Enchanted Pear Tree" in the Masnavi |
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The Enchanted Pear Tree (AT 1423) is a tale type in Aarne-Thompson's 'Anecdotes and Jokes' section.
Boccaccio's "Lydia and Pyrrhus" and Chaucer's "Merchant's Tale" are such tales of a dull-witted, usually older husband (senex amans) who is cuckolded by his clever wife.
The story of the pear tree is best known to English speaking readers from The Canterbury Tales, originates from Persia in the Bahar-Danush, in which the husband climbs a date tree instead of a pear tree. The story could have arrived in Europe through the "The Tale of the Simpleton Husband" in One Thousand and One Nights, or perhaps the version in book VI of the Masnavi by Rumi.
Other similarly themed tales are The Woman and the Pear Tree (Italy, Il Novellino), The Simpleton Husband (1001 Nights) and The Twenty-Ninth Vizier's Story (Turkey, The History of the Forty Viziers).
