μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Test of wife's ability to keep secret: the buried sheep's head. Husband tells her that he is burying head of murdered man. She is to keep secret. She tells. When head is dug up it is sheep's head.

Tests. · Marriage tests. · Wife tests. · view the constellation · filed as H472.1

Filed across the traditions
  • Jewish bin Gorion Born Judas IV 25, 275
  • India *Thompson-Balys.
  • general *T. Zachariae Zs. f. Vksk. XXXII–XXXIV 77
  • general *De Vries FFC LXXIII 220ff., 224 n. 1
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Filed under Test of wife's ability to keep secret.

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