Disguised wife helps husband escape from prison. (Cf. R121.) — Mythoi

Motif

Disguised wife helps husband escape from prison. (Cf. R121.)

Captives and fugitives. · Rescues. · Rescuers. · view the constellation · filed as R152.1

Filed across the traditions

Spanish Exempla Keller
Italian Novella Rotunda
West Indies Flowers 521.
general *Types 880, 888, 890

Within the index

Filed under Wife rescues husband.

Filed beside it

Woman disguised as man sells herself into slavery in order to ransom (free) her husband (lover). (Cf. K1837.) Wives change clothes with their imprisoned husbands when allowed to visit them. Husbands escape Wife gets back her husband from land of serpents by charming him with her beautiful dance Transformed wife takes husband out of captivity

Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)

Means of rescue from prison

Carried in tale types

A Man Boasts of his Wife · ATU 880 1 recorded variant
The Faithful Wife · ATU 888 1 recorded variant

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