μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 1reference

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.

  • general *Type 1350.
Within the index

Filed under The faithless widow.

1 finer motif beneath it
Faithless widow offers city to killer of her husband if he will marry her
Filed beside it
Faithless widow betrothed anew at husband's funeralFaithless widow fans husband's grave. She does not want to remarry until the body is cold (or the earth on the grave is dry)Faithless widow's heartlessness repels the new suitor. She obeys him when he tells her to knock out the teeth of her dead husband. Fearing like treatment, he leavesFaithless widow marries slayer of husband
Travels with
Husband transforms himself to test his wife's faithfulness. (Cf. T231.3.)
Carried in tale types

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