μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 3references

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.

  • India*Thompson-Balys.
  • general *Penzer II 159f.
  • general Hanna Lindberg "The Shrew", argbiggans typ i den Engelska Literaturen intill Shakespeare (Tavastehus, 1900)
Within the index

Filed under Characteristics of wives and husbands.

14 finer motifs beneath it
Man ejected from heaven for folly of marrying twiceChrist, not having married, knew nothing about suffering. So thinks the man after hearing all about Christ's tormentsMan reprimanded by judge for marrying several times. The man replies that he was always looking for a good wifeAvoiding the shrewish wifeTaming the shrew. By outdoing his wife in shrewishness the husband renders her obedientSt. Peter's wife meets him with a broom handle. She is waiting for him at the rear door of the houseSocrates and Zanthippe: "After thunder rain". He thus remarks as she empties slops on his headStrength in words, in herbs, and in stones. When first two do not cure shrewish wife, the last does. (Cf. J1563.6, J1581.2, J2412.5.)The browbeaten husband from under the table: "The man always has a man's heart."Husband will not search for shrewish wife who has run away from himShrewish wife gives husband beating every morningHusband consoled by seeing woman even more shrewish than his wife. (Cf. J882.)Wife beats her husband and eats up everything he earnsFakir thankful for shrewish wife: she is a thorn in his flesh and warns him from neglecting the ways of righteousness
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The overbearing wifeThe nagging wifeThe disobedient wifeThe obstinate wife or husband. (Cf. J2511.)The quarrelsome wife or husbandJealous wife or husbandThe curious wifeThe ungrateful wife. (Cf. W154.)The hypocritical wife. Shows what she has done for her husband, but not what she has done for herselfJewels of Cornelia. She shows her children as her jewelsBeautiful woman married to hideous man: he is thankful, she patient. She says that they have thus both gained paradiseThe neglected wifeThe silent wifeWife cannot keep secretThe spendthrift wife

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