The disobedient wife — Mythoi

Motif

The disobedient wife.

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

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

Middle Eastern The Thousand and One Nights, commonly called, in England, The Arabian Nights' Entertainments , Chapter 28
Mesopotamian The Babylonian Legends of the Creation (Enūma Eliš) , Tablet 7
Reference The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (abridged) , Chapter XXXIX XXXIX. The Ritual of Osiris
Greek Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica , III. TO DELIAN APOLLO

Within the index

Filed under Characteristics of wives and husbands.

6 finer motifs beneath it

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

Filed beside it

The shrewish wife The overbearing wife The nagging 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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