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Filed under Characteristics of wives and husbands.

7 finer motifs beneath it
Unsuccessful search for man who can rule his wifeCock shows browbeaten husband how to rule his wife. (Cf. J21.16, J130.)Wife 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
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The shrewish 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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