The overbearing wife — Mythoi

Motif

The overbearing wife.

Sex. · Married life. · Characteristics of wives and husbands. · view the constellation · filed as T252

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

Middle Eastern The Thousand and One Nights, commonly called, in England, The Arabian Nights' Entertainments , Chapter 23
Middle Eastern The Thousand and One Nights, commonly called, in England, The Arabian Nights' Entertainments , Chapter 9
Irish Cuchulain of Muirthemne: The Story of the Men of the Red Branch of Ulster , Ch. 3 THE COURTING OF EMER
Hawaiian Legends of Maui and Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes , 24 PELE AND KAMA-PUAA
Hermetic / Alchemical The Hermetic Museum, Restored and Enlarged , Tract 12: The Ordinal of Alchemy (Thomas Norton)

Within the index

Filed under Characteristics of wives and husbands.

7 finer motifs beneath it

Unsuccessful search for man who can rule his wife Cock shows browbeaten husband how to rule his wife. (Cf. J21.16, J130.) Wife threatens husband with death if he will not tell secrets Prize 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 maid Wife threatens suicide if she does not have her own way Vexed woman brings pot down on husband's head in presence of guest

Filed beside it

The shrewish 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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