μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Overcurious wife learns of the senate's deliberations. Husband (son) tells her that they have decided that each man may have many wives. Gullible wife believes it.

The wise and the foolish. · Cleverness. · Clever practical retorts. · Retorts between husband and wife. · view the constellation · filed as J1546

Filed across the traditions
  • Spanish Exempla Keller
  • Italian Novella *Rotunda.
  • general *Crane Vitry No. 235
  • general *Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 392
  • general Herbert III 19
  • general Alphabet No. 141
  • general Gesta Romanorum No. 126
  • general Krappe Bulletin Hispanique XXXIX 46
  • general Scala Celi 46b No. 260
Within the index

Filed under Retorts between husband and wife. (Cf. J1532.1.)

Filed beside it
Husband outwits his wife Wife outwits her husband
Carried in tale types

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