Other tests of wife's love or faithfulness — Mythoi

Motif

Other tests of wife's love or faithfulness.

Tests. · Marriage tests. · Wife tests. · view the constellation · filed as H467

Filed across the traditions

Irish myth Cross
Icelandic Boberg.

Within the index

Filed under Wife tests.

2 finer motifs beneath it

Feigned illness to test wife's love. Husband feigns loss of genitalia Wife's faithfulness tested by proposal in another's name

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 Feigned death to test wife's 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

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