μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Test of wife's obedience.

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

Filed across the traditions
  • Irish myth Cross
  • Jewish *Neuman
  • India Thompson-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 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 Test of wife's obedience: not to eat leeks. Although she does not like them, she immediately begins to want them 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
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 Other tests of wife's love or faithfulness Test of wife's ability to keep secret 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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