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Motif

Matron of Ephesus. (Vidua.) A woman mourns night and day by her husband's grave. A knight guarding a hanged man is about to lose his life because of the corpse he has stolen from the gallows. The matron offers him her love and substitutes her husband's corpse on the gallows so that the knight can escape.

Deceptions. · Villains and traitors. · Treacherous relatives. · view the constellation · filed as K2213.1

Filed across the traditions
  • Irish myth *Cross
  • Spanish Espinosa II No. 93
  • Italian Novella *Rotunda
  • Jewish *Neuman, bin Gorion Born Judas III 240ff.
  • general *Type 1510
  • general **Grisebach Die Wanderung der Novelle von der treulosen Witwe durch die Weltliteratur (Berlin, 1889)
  • general *Crane Vitry 228 No. 232
  • general *Chauvin VIII 210 No. 254
  • general *Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 752
  • general *315.
Within the index

Filed under Treacherous wife.

Filed beside it
Faithless wife and paramour throw hero overboard Faithless wife plots with paramour against husband's life. (Cf. K2213.5.) Betrayal of husband's secret by his wife The faithless resuscitated wife. Husband at great sacrifice has brought his wife back to life. She immediately deserts him and plots with a paramour against his life. (Cf. K2213.2.) Faithless wife transforms husband Faithless wife betrays husband to her father Faithless queen aids lover to dispossess king Faithless wife incites sons to make war upon father Faithless wife tricks husband into setting lover free Treacherous queen tricks king into bestowing kingdom upon her son Young queen murders her old husband in order to get a new one Queen kills her husband as revenge of his killing of her father and brother Queen deceives her husband as revenge for his killing of her lover and brother (Helgi.) Treacherous queen lures her husband into chest and betrays him to hostile king. He is hung up between two fires, but his second wife cuts the strings so that he falls down and kills his enemy and takes his kingdom back Wife betrays husband in revenge for his once having taken a second wife
Carried in tale types

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