μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 3references

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 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 demandedTest of wife's endurance. Haughty princess married to beggar and must endure poverty and menial workOther 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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