The constellation
T250 Characteristics of wives and husbands
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- The shrewish wife · T251 entry
- The overbearing wife · T252 entry
- The nagging wife · T253 entry
- The disobedient wife · T254 entry
- The obstinate wife or husband. (Cf. J2511.) · T255 entry
- The quarrelsome wife or husband · T256 entry
- Jealous wife or husband · T257 entry
- The curious wife · T258 entry
- The ungrateful wife. (Cf. W154.) · T261 entry
- The hypocritical wife. Shows what she has done for her husband, but not what she has done for herself · T263 entry
- Jewels of Cornelia. She shows her children as her jewels · T265 entry
- Beautiful woman married to hideous man: he is thankful, she patient. She says that they have thus both gained paradise · T268 entry
- The neglected wife · T271 entry
- The silent wife · T272 entry
- Wife cannot keep secret · T274 entry
- The spendthrift wife · T275 entry