Faithless wife poisons husband to be with paramour. Paramour fearing a like fate refuses to go to her — Mythoi

Motif

Faithless wife poisons husband to be with paramour. Paramour fearing a like fate refuses to go to her.

Deceptions. · Villains and traitors. · Treacherous relatives. · view the constellation · filed as K2213.3.2

Filed across the traditions

Italian Novella Rotunda.

Within the index

Filed under Faithless wife plots with paramour against husband's life. (Cf. K2213.5.)

2 finer motifs beneath it

Paramour demands that wife bring him her husband's head Wife plots to kill her husband, but her paramour answers that he could never touch murderess

Filed beside it

Faithless wife has husband and children killed so that she can be with paramour Faithless wife deceives husband while she searches for lover Queen in love with own brother kills her husband

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