μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 13references

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.

  • general *Type 887
  • general *Bolte Zs. f. Vksk. XXXV–XXXVI 290
  • general Hdwb. d. Märchens s. v. "Geduldsprüfung"
  • general **H. Siefkin Das geduldige Weib in der englischen Literatur bis auf Shakespeare (Leipzig, 1903)
  • general *Loomis White Magic 118
  • general *Laserstein
  • general Ilse von Stach Griseldis (1922)
  • general Köhler-Bolte II 501, 534
  • general *Fb "Griselda" IV 486a
  • general Huet 66
  • general *Cate Studies in Philology XXIX 389ff.
  • general *Hibbard Medieval Romance in Eng. 289 n. 9

Showing a bounded trail of 13 from 13 references.

Within the index

Filed under Wife tests.

1 finer motif beneath it
The clever wife in disguise wins a second wife for her husband
Filed beside it
Test of wife's endurance. Haughty princess married to beggar and must endure poverty and menial workFeigned death to test wife's faithfulnessOther tests of wife's love or faithfulnessTest of wife's ability to keep secretTest of wife's obedienceComplacent wife agrees with all of husband's absurd statementsHusband tests false wife by sleeping on her hair. Had always done so with true brideWife tests – miscellaneous motifs
Carried in tale types

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