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Motif

The shrewish wife.

Sex. · Married life. · Characteristics of wives and husbands. · view the constellation · filed as T251

Filed across the traditions
  • 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 twice Christ, not having married, knew nothing about suffering. So thinks the man after hearing all about Christ's torments Man reprimanded by judge for marrying several times. The man replies that he was always looking for a good wife Avoiding the shrewish wife Taming the shrew. By outdoing his wife in shrewishness the husband renders her obedient St. Peter's wife meets him with a broom handle. She is waiting for him at the rear door of the house Socrates and Zanthippe: "After thunder rain". He thus remarks as she empties slops on his head Strength 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 him Shrewish wife gives husband beating every morning Husband consoled by seeing woman even more shrewish than his wife. (Cf. J882.) Wife beats her husband and eats up everything he earns Fakir thankful for shrewish wife: she is a thorn in his flesh and warns him from neglecting the ways of righteousness
Filed beside it
The overbearing wife The nagging wife The disobedient wife The obstinate wife or husband. (Cf. J2511.) The quarrelsome wife or husband Jealous wife or husband The curious wife The ungrateful wife. (Cf. W154.) The hypocritical wife. Shows what she has done for her husband, but not what she has done for herself Jewels of Cornelia. She shows her children as her jewels Beautiful woman married to hideous man: he is thankful, she patient. She says that they have thus both gained paradise The neglected wife The silent wife Wife cannot keep secret The spendthrift wife

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