Faithful wife — Mythoi

Motif

Faithful wife.

Sex. · Married life. · Faithfulness in marriage. · view the constellation · filed as T210.1

Filed across the traditions

Korean Zong in-Sob 106ff. No. 57.

Within the index

Filed under Faithfulness in marriage.

Filed beside it

Faithful husband Faithfulness to marriage in death Loving couple die of separation Husband (wife) sickens as result of separation from spouse Faithfulness of married couple in misfortune Loathly bridegroom carried on back in basket by wife Wife refuses to become unfaithful although she knows her husband to be so Woman's naiveté proves her fidelity. Man is rebuked for having bad breath. He reproves his wife for never having told him. "I thought that men liked it as I did." He realizes that his wife has not known any other man Wife hides husband's unfaithfulness from emperor and even shelters his mistress Husband tempted by own wife disguised in fine clothes: says he will touch no woman save his wife. She puts on her old clothes

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