μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Test of wife's patience. Griselda. Children stolen and attendance at wedding to another demanded.

Tests. · Marriage tests. · Wife tests. · view the constellation · filed as H461

Cited in the index
  • 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

…and 1 more.

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 work Feigned death to test wife's faithfulness Other tests of wife's love or faithfulness Test of wife's ability to keep secret Test of wife's obedience Complacent wife agrees with all of husband's absurd statements Husband tests false wife by sleeping on her hair. Had always done so with true bride Wife tests – miscellaneous motifs
Carried in tale types

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