Shirt as chastity index. Remains white as long as woman (man) is true (Cf. D1056.)

Motif

Shirt as chastity index. Remains white as long as woman (man) is true (Cf. D1056.)

Tests. · Marriage tests. · Chasity tests. · Chastity index. · view the constellation · filed as H431.1

Scholars’ trail — 6references

The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our shelf are live links; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.

EnglishChild I 268.
general *Type 888
general BP III 517ff.
general Penzer I 44, 165
general Oesterley No. 69
general Herbert III 233

Within the index

Filed under Clothing (cloth) as chastity index.

Filed beside it

Handkerchief as chastity index. Will not soil as long as woman (man) is true Veil as chastity index. Flowers on veil fade on head of unchaste

Travels with

Magic shirt

Carried in tale types

The Faithful Wife · ATU 8881 recorded variant

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