The woman with two husbands is to be killed. One of the husbands refuses to bury her. She is awarded to the other

Motif

The woman with two husbands is to be killed. One of the husbands refuses to bury her. She is awarded to the other.

The wise and the foolish. · Cleverness. · Clever persons and acts. · Cleverness in the law court. · Clever judicial decisions. · view the constellation · filed as J1171.3

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Scholars’ trail — 2references

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India*Thompson-Balys.
general Type 926*

Within the index

Filed under Judgment by testing love.

1 finer motif beneath it

Clever judgment: man must belong to the third wife because the first had buried him and the second did not protect him

Filed beside it

Solomon's judgment: the divided child. Two women claim a child. Judge offers to cut it in two. Real mother refuses Solomon's judgment: the divided bride. Three suitors dispute over a woman. When it is proposed to divide her, true lover is discovered Which mare is mother of colt: colt taken in boat to the middle of river; mother will swim to it

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