μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 8references

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.

  • Italian Novella*Rotunda
  • India*Thompson-Balys
  • Buddhist mythMalalasekera II 109
  • IndonesiaCoster-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 leperAdulteress chooses loathly paramourAdulteress poisons husband in order to be with swineherdWoman enamored of repulsive and abusive loverFaithless wife pays her paramour for enjoying herself with him
Filed beside it
Wife and husband believe each unfaithful at the slightest provocationFaithless wife causes her husband to go insaneThe faithless widowWronged wife goes to wronged husbandHusband 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 wifeAdulteress on her death-bed reveals the illegitimacy of her children. Did not want her husband to be burdened with their bringing upSeries of husbands try in vain to control adulteressFight between husband and lover for kingdom and wifeWoman reveals whereabouts of husband to enemy in revenge for desertionMan unfaithful even on wedding nightObject stolen (left) as token that infidelity has been discoveredFaithlessness in marriage – miscellaneous
Carried in tale types

wander