The constellation
T221 Woman's naiveté proves her fidelity. Man is rebuked for having bad breath. He reproves his wife for never having told him. "I thought that men liked it as I did." He realizes that his wife has not known any other man
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- Faithfulness in marriage · T210 entry
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- Faithful wife · T210.1 entry
- Faithful husband · T210.2 entry
- Faithfulness to marriage in death · T211 entry
- Loving couple die of separation · T212 entry
- Husband (wife) sickens as result of separation from spouse · T213 entry
- Faithfulness of married couple in misfortune · T215 entry
- Loathly bridegroom carried on back in basket by wife · T216 entry
- Wife refuses to become unfaithful although she knows her husband to be so · T217 entry
- Wife hides husband's unfaithfulness from emperor and even shelters his mistress · T222 entry
- Husband tempted by own wife disguised in fine clothes: says he will touch no woman save his wife. She puts on her old clothes · T224 entry