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78. BEE'S WAX
A weaver's wife had a lover with whom she once went into a wood and the two made love there. While she was enjoying the intercourse, she saw a swarm of bees fluttering above her head. She noted it.
The next day as her husband was going out, she asked him where he was going and he said that he wanted to buy some bee's wax. She said it was not necessary to buy it, she could easily show him a honeycomb from which he could collect the wax as much as he wanted. They both went to the wood and she led him to the thicket where she had seen the beehive just the previous day. But now she could not see any sign of the bees so she lay down on the ground exactly at the same place and in the same position as on the previous day. Then she spotted the beehive and showed it to her husband. He noticed the posture in which she was lying and at once saw what she really was -- just a wanton woman.
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