Second wife taken because first is barren.
Sex. · Marriage. · Marriage customs. · view the constellation · filed as T145.2
Motif
In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
- Greek The Odyssey , Book XX
- Indic The Mahābhārata , Book 4, Section III
- Literary Crystallization Four Plays (The Tempest, A Midsummer-Night's Dream, The Winter's Tale, King Lear) — University Press Shakespeare, ed. Sidney Lee , A Midsummer-Night's Dream Act 3
- North American Indigenous Navaho Legends , Legend 1
Filed across the traditions
- India *Thompson-Balys.
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