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 EasternThe Thousand and One Nights, commonly called, in England, The Arabian Nights' Entertainments, Chapter 23
- Literary CrystallizationThus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None, Chapter 9IX. THE PREACHERS OF DEATH.
- GermanicGrimm's Household Tales: With the Author's Notes, Tale 8181.— BEOTHER LUSTIO.
- NorseThe First Nine Books of the Danish History of Saxo Grammaticus, Book 6
Scholars’ trail — 1reference
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.
- Italian Novella*Rotunda.
Within the index
Filed under Appearance of Death exposes hypocrisy.
Carried in tale types
- Death for the Old Couple · ATU 13541 recorded variant