Woman and sick husband. "Would that Death take me in his stead." When Death comes she points to her husband.
Deceptions. · Deception through shams. · Hypocrites. · Detection of hypocrisy. · view the constellation · filed as K2065.1
Motif
In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
- Middle Eastern The Thousand and One Nights, commonly called, in England, The Arabian Nights' Entertainments , Chapter 23
- Literary Crystallization Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None , Chapter 9 IX. THE PREACHERS OF DEATH.
- Germanic Grimm's Household Tales: With the Author's Notes , Tale 81 81.— BEOTHER LUSTIO.
- Norse The First Nine Books of the Danish History of Saxo Grammaticus , Book 6
Filed across the traditions
- Italian Novella *Rotunda.
Within the index
Filed under Appearance of Death exposes hypocrisy.
Carried in tale types
- Death for the Old Couple · ATU 1354 1 recorded variant
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