The husband shows his wife poison to avoid: she takes it and dies — Mythoi

Motif

The husband shows his wife poison to avoid: she takes it and dies.

Sex. · Married life. · Characteristics of wives and husbands. · view the constellation · filed as T254.1

Filed across the traditions

Spanish Exempla Keller
Italian Novella *Rotunda.
general Chauvin II 155 No. 27
general Krappe Bulletin Hispanique XXXIX 38

Within the index

Filed under The disobedient wife.

Filed beside it

Husband forbids wife to ride on the dog: she immediately does so and is bitten Man with obedient wife looks young; with disobedient, old Man forbids wife to open chest. Loaded crossbow placed in it. She opens it and is killed Husband warns wife not to enter empty furnace. She does so and it falls in upon her Disobedient wife punished

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