Faithless widow offers city to killer of her husband if he will marry her — Mythoi

Motif

Faithless widow offers city to killer of her husband if he will marry her.

Sex. · Married life. · Faithlessness in marriage. · view the constellation · filed as T231.3.1

Filed across the traditions

Italian Novella Rotunda
India Thompson-Balys.

Within the index

Filed under Faithless widow ready to marry messenger who brings news of husband's death. The husband, however, has only feigned death to test her. (Cf. T235.)

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