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.

  • Irish mythCross
  • Jewish*Neuman
  • IndiaThompson-Balys.
Within the index

Filed under Wife tests.

5 finer motifs beneath it
Test of wife's obedience: finger in hole. Disobedient wife puts her finger into the hole where her husband has fixed sharp nailsTest 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 herTest of wife's obedience: not to eat leeks. Although she does not like them, she immediately begins to want themMan leaving home warns wife not to wash face in puddle in dunghill. She does. He cannot understand why; she cannot explainTest of wife's obedience: decorating house
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 faithfulnessOther tests of wife's love or faithfulnessTest of wife's ability to keep secretComplacent 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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