μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Faithfulness of married couple in misfortune.

Sex. · Married life. · Faithfulness in marriage. · view the constellation · filed as T215

Filed across the traditions
  • India Thompson-Balys.
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Filed under Faithfulness in marriage.

8 finer motifs beneath it
Wife carries mutilated husband on her back so that he may beg Wife offers starving husband (father) milk from her breasts Husband nourishes starving wife with his own flesh and blood Wife puts out one of her eyes to show sympathy with her husband. He has lost an eye in a tournament and is ashamed to return to her. She shows that it makes no difference in her love Fugitive returns to his family so that they may collect reward from his capture Woman swims nightly to husband's prison and arranges his escape. Spurns the attentions of treacherous suitor. (Cf. R152.) Wife travels for years with sick husband in order to have him cured Woman sells her hair to feed starving husband
Filed beside it
Faithful wife Faithful husband Faithfulness to marriage in death Loving couple die of separation Husband (wife) sickens as result of separation from spouse 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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