μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

The nagging wife.

Sex. · Married life. · Characteristics of wives and husbands. · view the constellation · filed as T253

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
Filed across the traditions
  • India *Thompson-Balys.
Within the index

Filed under Characteristics of wives and husbands.

3 finer motifs beneath it
Nagging wife drives husband to prepare for suicide Woman advised that nagging will never make a husband virtuous Saint composes hymn to free himself from the mala vita in which he lives with his wife
Filed beside it
The shrewish wife The overbearing 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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