μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
Scholars’ trail — 1reference

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.

  • 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 suicideWoman advised that nagging will never make a husband virtuousSaint composes hymn to free himself from the mala vita in which he lives with his wife
Filed beside it
The shrewish wifeThe overbearing 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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