Marriage to five women, each with separate duties

Motif

Marriage to five women, each with separate duties.

Sex. · Marriage. · Marriage customs. · view the constellation · filed as T145.1

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
Africa (Benga)Nassau 169 No. 22.

Within the index

Filed under Polygamous marriages.

3 finer motifs beneath it

Man requires seven women Seven wives each to have the husband one day a week Man married to several sisters

Filed beside it

Polygyny Second wife taken because first is barren Competition in ale-brewing between king's two wives Man's two wives each claim part of his body: they torment him Man pulled down stairs by his two wives Polygamist must love all his wives Man's senior wife ugly but diligent; his second, beautiful but lazy Polygamy so that head wife may be quickly replaced for wrongdoing

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