μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 2references

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.

  • IndiaThompson-Balys.
  • general *Type 425
Within the index

Filed under Punishment: noble person must do menial service. (Cf. A181, H465.)

1 finer motif beneath it
Second wife (slave) must serve as menial
Filed beside it
Queen placed in kitchen and abused by butcherNobleman after death must serve as menialCast-forth wife must sit at horse-block of palace and tell story to each newcomer and offer to carry him insideQueen made to scare crows away in fieldsPunishment: man must do women's work
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