Test of wife's obedience: not to eat leeks. Although she does not like them, she immediately begins to want them — Mythoi

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Test of wife's obedience: not to eat leeks. Although she does not like them, she immediately begins to want them.

Tests. · Marriage tests. · Wife tests. · view the constellation · filed as H473.3

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general Herbert III 24
general Crane Vitry 258 No. 284
general *Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 317.

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Test of wife's obedience: finger in hole. Disobedient wife puts her finger into the hole where her husband has fixed sharp nails Test of wife's obedience: the one command. Upon his wife's insistence that he test her by giving one command the husband tells her not to go into the oven while he is away. She does so and oven falls on her Man leaving home warns wife not to wash face in puddle in dunghill. She does. He cannot understand why; she cannot explain Test of wife's obedience: decorating house

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