The constellation
T215 Faithfulness of married couple in misfortune
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- Faithfulness in marriage · T210 entry
beneath it
- Wife carries mutilated husband on her back so that he may beg · T215.1 entry
- Wife offers starving husband (father) milk from her breasts · T215.2 entry
- Husband nourishes starving wife with his own flesh and blood · T215.3 entry
- Wife puts out one of her eyes to show sympathy with her husband. He has lost an eye in a tournament and is ashamed to return to her. She shows that it makes no difference in her love · T215.4 entry
- Fugitive returns to his family so that they may collect reward from his capture · T215.5 entry
- Woman swims nightly to husband's prison and arranges his escape. Spurns the attentions of treacherous suitor. (Cf. R152.) · T215.6 entry
- Wife travels for years with sick husband in order to have him cured · T215.7 entry
- Woman sells her hair to feed starving husband · T215.8 entry