μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

The besieged women's dearest possession. (Women of Weinsberg.) Permitted to carry from the city their dearest possession, they take their husbands.

The wise and the foolish. · Cleverness. · Clever practical retorts. · Retorts between husband and wife. · view the constellation · filed as J1545.4.1

Cited in the index
  • general *DeVries FFC LXXIII 278ff.
  • general *Gaster Germania XXV 285ff.
  • general *Wehrhan Die Sage 31ff.
  • general *Bolte Montanus Gartengesellschaft 615 No. 80.
Within the index

Filed under The exiled wife's dearest possession. A wife driven from home is allowed by her husband to take her one dearest possession. She takes her sleeping husband and effects reconciliation.

Carried in tale types

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