μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Treacherous wife.

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

Filed across the traditions
  • Icelandic *Boberg
  • Irish myth *Cross
  • Lithuanian Balys Index No. 315B*, 894*
  • Russian Andrejev No. 315B*, 894*
  • Prussian Plenzat 25
  • Rumanian Schullerus FFC LXXVIII No. 315B*
  • Missouri French Carrière
  • Jewish *Neuman, *bin Gorion Born Judas III 90ff., 95
  • India *Thompson-Balys
  • Buddhist myth Malalasekera I 93, 884, 998, II 491, 510, 516, 1014
  • Japanese Ikeda
  • Easter Island Métraux Ethnology 381, 385
  • Africa (Fang) Trilles 277, Tessman 113f.
  • general *Types 560, 561, 566, 612, 670, 1350, 1510
Within the index

Filed under Treacherous relatives. Distinction between treacherous relatives and cruel relatives (S0–S99) is frequently impossible to make. Relatives whose treachery seems to be uppermost have been listed here; those usually possessing power over their charges and exercising their power in a cruel fashion have been listed under cruel relatives.

16 finer motifs beneath it
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 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
Filed beside it
Treacherous brother. Usually elder brother Treacherous sister. Usually elder sister Treacherous children Treacherous uncle Treacherous relatives-in-law
Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)
Treacherous wife punished. (Cf. K2213.)
Carried in tale types

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