μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Cast-forth wife must sit at horse-block of palace and tell story to each newcomer and offer to carry him inside.

Rewards and punishments. · Kinds of punishment. · Humiliating punishments. · view the constellation · filed as Q482.4

Filed across the traditions
  • Irish myth *Cross
  • Welsh MacCulloch Celtic 94.
Within the index

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

Filed beside it
Princess serves as menial Queen placed in kitchen and abused by butcher Nobleman after death must serve as menial Queen made to scare crows away in fields Punishment: man must do women's work

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