Woman makes trouble between man and wife: the hair from his beard. She tells the wife to increase her husband's love by cutting a hair from his beard. Also tells the husband that his wife will try to cut his throat. He kills his wife — Mythoi

Motif

Woman makes trouble between man and wife: the hair from his beard. She tells the wife to increase her husband's love by cutting a hair from his beard. Also tells the husband that his wife will try to cut his throat. He kills his wife.

Deceptions. · Deception into self-injury. · Persons duped into injuring each other. · view the constellation · filed as K1085

Filed across the traditions

Spanish Exempla Keller.
general *Type 1353
general *Wesselski Märchen 194
general Chauvin II 158 No. 42, 195 No. 20
general *Wesselski Mönchslatein 27 No. 22
general *Prato Zs. f. Vksk. IX 189ff., 311ff.
general Herbert III 399
general Hilka Neue Beiträge zur Erzählungslit. d. Mittelalters 19 No. 17
general Scala Celi 109b No. 610
general Krappe Bulletin Hispanique XXXIX 48

Within the index

Filed under Persons duped into injuring each other.

2 finer motifs beneath it

Woman makes trouble between man and wife (to lick husband's body) Woman makes trouble between man and wife: to keep certain rendezvous

Filed beside it

Blind men duped into fighting Ogres (large animals, sharp-elbowed women) duped into fighting each other. Trickster strikes one so that he thinks the other has done it Undesignated present starts quarrel for its possession Liar brings about fight between dupes Woman induces men to fight over her and kill each other Falsified message brings about a war Dissension aroused in army by casting suspicion on general. A general destroys everything except what belongs to the general of the enemy. Thus he brings about suspicion that the two leaders are in league Brothers duped into killing each other by slander that one of them is father to the other's child Goddess arouses heroes' jealousy and eternal fighting Treacherous counselor persuades king's son to woo his father's young bride whom he is sent to get, and as he tells the king that he is her lover both are killed

Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)

Where the devil can't reach, he sends an old woman. (Cf. K1085.)

Carried in tale types

The Old Woman as Trouble Maker · ATU 1353 1 recorded variant

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