μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 2references

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.

  • Spanish ExemplaKeller.
  • general Alphabet No. 565
Within the index

Filed under King advised to marry maid rather than widow. Widow would have things her own way.

2 finer motifs beneath it
Woman refuses second marriage. Her husband abides in her heartWidow refuses second marriage so her brother cannot kill a second husband
Filed beside it
Better to marry ugly than fair wife. Less hard to satisfyYoung man advised to choose as wife a girl whose mother was chaste

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