Feigned death to test wife's faithfulness — Mythoi

Motif

Feigned death to test wife's faithfulness.

Tests. · Marriage tests. · Wife tests. · view the constellation · filed as H466

Cited in the index

general *Type 1350
general *Bolte Zs. f. Vksk. XIX 92 n. 2
general *Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 144.

Within the index

Filed under Wife tests.

1 finer motif beneath it

Feigned absence to test wife's faithfulness

Filed beside it

Test of wife's patience. Griselda. Children stolen and attendance at wedding to another demanded Test of wife's endurance. Haughty princess married to beggar and must endure poverty and menial work 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

The Soon-Consoled Widow (previously The Loving Wife) · ATU 1350 2 recorded variants

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