μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 5references

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 NovellaRotunda
  • IndiaThompson-Balys.
  • general *Type 670
  • general **Aarne FFC XV 49ff.
  • general Fb "kok" IV 272b
Within the index

Filed under The overbearing wife.

2 finer motifs beneath it
King sees how male stork kills his unfaithful wife. Follows its exampleMonkey (jackal, etc.) shows husband how to rule his wife
Filed beside it
Unsuccessful search for man who can rule his wifeWife threatens husband with death if he will not tell secretsPrize for husband who rules his wife. (Ham, egg.)Men rulers in their house asked to sing. No man in congregation does so. Priest alone sings. Next year he cannot, for then he has a maidWife threatens suicide if she does not have her own wayVexed woman brings pot down on husband's head in presence of guest
Travels with
Wisdom (knowledge) acquired from animals"Go to Goosebridge": counsel proved wise by experience. Man with disobedient wife finds mules beaten there and made to cross bridge
Carried in tale types

wander