Wife banished — Mythoi

Motif

Wife banished.

Unnatural cruelty. · Cruel persecutions. · Persecuted wife. · view the constellation · filed as S411

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

Filed across the traditions

India *Thompson-Balys
Buddhist myth Malalasekera II 526.

Within the index

Filed under Persecuted wife.

4 finer motifs beneath it

Misunderstood wife banished by husband. She has decorated the house for his homecoming, but he thinks that she is expecting a paramour Wife banished for some small fault Barren wife sent away Wife banished because she eats by stealth

Filed beside it

Heroine taunted with her unknown past. (Cf. F302.) Unfaithful husband and his mistress persecute his wife Woman abandoned when with child Queen banished when she defeats king in argument

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