It's the start of the seventh day, and Dioneo is in charge, with the theme: 'women playing tricks on their husbands. After the group has decamped to the unrealistically picturesque Valley of the Ladies, the stories begin with a tale (7.1) of a woman who warns her lover that her husband is at home with an informative 'exorcism' of the 'werewolf' she assures her husband has been tapping at the door.