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

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

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

Scholars’ trail — 4references

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.

Spanish ExemplaKeller
Italian NovellaRotunda
West IndiesFlowers 521.
general *Types 880, 888, 890

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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

Means of rescue from prison

Carried in tale types

A Man Boasts of his Wife · ATU 8801 recorded variant
The Faithful Wife · ATU 8881 recorded variant

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