μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 2references

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.

  • Irish mythCross
  • IcelandicBoberg.
Within the index

Filed under Wife tests.

2 finer motifs beneath it
Feigned illness to test wife's love. Husband feigns loss of genitaliaWife'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 demandedTest of wife's endurance. Haughty princess married to beggar and must endure poverty and menial workFeigned death to test wife's 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

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