 In the first fable, the peasant woman convinces her husband that her lover was merely a trick of the eye and in the second, persuades her husband that he has had a vision of her and a man, foreshadowing her death.Marie de France lauds the woman for her crafty ways and faults the peasant husband with idiocy.The morality, or lack thereof, in these two female-centred fables is interesting and takes root in the tradition of "wife tricking her husband" stories, such as "The Merchant’s Tale" and Scots-Irish tradition.