Why women are subservient to men

Motif

Why women are subservient to men.

Mythological motifs. · Creation and ordering of human life. · Ordering of human life. · Origin of mental and moral characteristics. · view the constellation · filed as A1372.9

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

Middle Eastern The Thousand and One Nights, commonly called, in England, The Arabian Nights' Entertainments , Chapter 25
Reference The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (abridged) , Chapter LII LII. Killing the Divine Animal
Depth Commentary The Interpretation of Dreams , Chapter I
Indic The Mahābhārata , Book 1, Section LXXV

Filed across the traditions

Lithuanian Balys Legends No. 70ff.
India Thompson-Balys
S. Am. Indian (Munderucú) Horton BBAE CXLIII (3) 282.

Within the index

Filed under Origin of other special characteristics of women.

Filed beside it

Why women are prattlers Why women laugh much. When Eve sees her first child she laughs over its smallness Why women are roving Why women have a treble voice Why women are deceitful Why some women are good-looking Origin of pleasant and unpleasant women. Contest arranged by Virgin Mary – laughter forbidden for some time Why women never have leisure. Because they refused to show God the way, saying they had no time Why women keep washing themselves. St. Andrew, sent to get salt to keep people clean, gets drunk and forgets. There is only enough for men

Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)

Why woman is master of her husband. (Cf. A1372.9.)

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