Faithless wife deceives husband while she searches for lover — Mythoi

Motif

Faithless wife deceives husband while she searches for lover.

Deceptions. · Villains and traitors. · Treacherous relatives. · view the constellation · filed as K2213.3.3

Filed across the traditions

Irish myth Cross.

Within the index

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

Filed beside it

Faithless wife has husband and children killed so that she can be with paramour Faithless wife poisons husband to be with paramour. Paramour fearing a like fate refuses to go to her Queen in love with own brother kills her husband

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