Man claims prize (boots) as ruler of his house, but is afraid to carry the boots lest he soil his clean shirt and anger his wife.
Sex. · Married life. · Characteristics of wives and husbands. · view the constellation · filed as T252.4.1
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 2references
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.
- general Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 753
Within the index
Filed under Prize for husband who rules his wife. (Ham, egg.)