μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Woman deserts husband for unworthy lover. (Deformed, mutilated, monstrous, or of different race.)

Sex. · Married life. · Faithlessness in marriage. · view the constellation · filed as T232

Filed across the traditions
  • Italian Novella *Rotunda
  • India *Thompson-Balys
  • Buddhist myth Malalasekera II 109
  • Indonesia Coster-Wijsman 148.
  • general *Penzer V 153 n. 1
  • general Malone PMLA XLIII 418ff.
  • general Strauch Enikels Weltchronik, lines 25177ff. Irish myth: Cross
  • general Palestine: Schmidt-Kahle Volkserzählungen aus Palästina I 139ff.
Within the index

Filed under Faithlessness in marriage.

5 finer motifs beneath it
Woman consorts with leper Adulteress chooses loathly paramour Adulteress poisons husband in order to be with swineherd Woman enamored of repulsive and abusive lover Faithless wife pays her paramour for enjoying herself with him
Filed beside it
Wife and husband believe each unfaithful at the slightest provocation Faithless wife causes her husband to go insane The faithless widow Wronged wife goes to wronged husband Husband transforms himself to test his wife's faithfulness. (Cf. T231.3.) Woman enamored of an unknown knight in a tournament loses interest when she finds that it is her husband. (Cf. R222.) Old man married to young, unfaithful wife Adulteress on her death-bed reveals the illegitimacy of her children. Did not want her husband to be burdened with their bringing up Series of husbands try in vain to control adulteress Fight between husband and lover for kingdom and wife Woman reveals whereabouts of husband to enemy in revenge for desertion Man unfaithful even on wedding night Object stolen (left) as token that infidelity has been discovered Faithlessness in marriage – miscellaneous
Carried in tale types

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